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Dundonnell
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« on: July 09, 2018, 10:30:40 pm » |
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Knussen's list of compositions is certainly odd. He was precocious in his twenties although most if not all of his orchestral works are very short (less than 20 minutes). But after 1988-when he was still only 36-he composed very little at all:
"The Way to Castle Yonder", op.21a for orchestra (1988-90) (7 minutes long)
"Flourish with Fireworks", op.22 for orchestra (1988, rev. 1993) (4 minutes long)
Whitman Settings, op.25a for soprano and orchestra (1992) (10 minutes long)
Horn Concerto, op.28 (1994) (12 minutes long)
Violin Concerto, op.30 (2002) (16 minutes long)
and a further revision of the Symphony in One Movement, op.5 in 2002
In other words he had composed only one new work for orchestra in the last quarter of a century. He made a career as a distinguished conductor of modern music but something seems to have gone badly wrong with his own creativity.
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