Commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. First performance in September 1983 conducted by Sir Georg Solti. Duration c.28 mins. Full score and orchestral parts available on hire from the publisher.

Song cycle for Soprano and Piano (reduction from orchestral score) with poems by Robert Desnos. First performed at the BBC Proms in August 1991 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer with Solveig Kringleborn.Duration c.16 mins.

Song cycle for soprano and orchestra with poems by Robert Desnos. First performed at the BBC Proms in August 1991 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer with Solveig Kringleborn. Duration c.16 mins.

The original version of this work scored for chamber orchestra was written in 1950 in response to a commission from Warsaw Radio. In the following year the composer revised and slightly extended the work and rescored it forsymphony orchestra. The first performance was given by the Warsaw Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Grzegorz Fitelberg in Warsaw in April 1951. The work uses folk melodi…

First performed in 1970 by Mstislav Rostropovich to whom the work is dedicated with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Downes.