The tinker’s wedding

1 movement, 1948†, 193 bars, 7:00

Sketching started 27 Jauary 1948; full score completed 6 March 1948

3 flutes (1 also picc), 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons (1 also contra), 4 horn, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, suspended cymbal, triangle, tambourine, side drum, bass drum, glockenspiel, xylophone, strings

Scherzo Allegro vivace e giocoso, E major – Trio Meno allegro ma tranquillo D major [193 bars]

Schott and Co, 1949
assigned to Musica Viva, 1972
transferred, 1985, to United Music Publishers Limited, now United Music Publishing Ltd

Timings

Mackerras 1987Brabbins 2012
Scherzo Allegro vivace e giocoso, E major – Trio Meno allegro ma tranquillo D major7:256:44

Performances

23 June 1949 given as a BBC New Music Rehearsal
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eric Warr
25 June 1950 studio
live broadcast BBC (Scotland only)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eric Warr
2 October 1951 studio
live broadcast Home Service [BBC Radio 4]
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eric Warr
12 February 1972 [first public performance] Hammersmith Town Hall
Fulham Municipal Orchestra, conductor Josef Vandernoot
2 May 1987 Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sir Charles Mackerras
23 September 2008 [US première] Marvin Cole Auditorium, Fine Arts Building, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, Georgia, USA
DeKalb Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fyodor Cherniavsky
31 May & 1 June 2012 RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins
29 March 2014 [Australian premiere] Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane
Queensland Youth Orchestra, conductor John Curro

Recordings

EMI Classics 7243 5 75782 2 6 (2 discs) released November 2002
2 May 1987 Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sir Charles Mackerras
Dutton Vocalion CDLX 7296 released November 2012
31 May & 1 June 2012 RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins