Are you sure there is not a shoe-box of treasures in a corner of your garage Mr. Watson?
To-day we might discuss the first British performance of the
Séquences for Violin and Small Grouped Orchestra by Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (1919 - 1994). He was born in Poland to a German-Jewish father, studied philosophy in his youth, was interred in Russia in the forties, spent most of the fifties in Israel, then moved to Paris, finally settling in Vienna.
Although the announcer mentioned the year 1953, all the reference books agree in assigning this work to 1958.
Unfortunately I do not know whether
Séquences belong(s) among his later, graphical and mobile, scores, or to his earlier Webernesque period, but it/they sound(s) pretty complicated! Without a knowledge of the construction it is difficult to say much more.
According to the web-site of the Universal Edition (with whom he used to work) the orchestral instrumentation consists of 3 Flutes, 4 Percussionists, Harp, Celesta, Piano, 4 Violins, 4 Violas, and 4 Violoncelli. How these are separated in the four groups is not stated, and in any case the separation would be inaudible in the A.M. transmission.
Paul Griffiths in his book
Modern Music and After does not mention Haubenstock-Ramati's name; a singular omission I think. Norman Lebrecht mentions him but admires only the second string quartette.
