Cipriani Potter Symphony No.1

[Albion]

The BBC will (hopefully) broadcast Potter's first symphony on 9th April. Hopefully because the numbering of his symphonies is very confusing: I contributed the worklist to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipriani_Potter#Orchestral)and based the symphonies on chronology. If it is indeed No.1 in G minor which is due to be heard this will be a significant addition - six of his symphonies were broadcast in 1995 and my recordings of four these made at the time are in the British and Irish Music Archive. We really need a complete cycle in modern recordings!

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[Grandenorm]

Agreed. And the full scores of all of them are in the manuscript collection of the British Library (including parts for the E flat and one of the C minor ones). Typical of the BBC not to tell us which G minor symphony is being played - but then they are so ignorant at R3 they probably think he only wrote one symphony. They couldn't even get his name right - Cipriano on their website!

[Albion]

but then they are so ignorant at R3 they probably think he only wrote one symphony. They couldn't even get his name right - Cipriano on their website!

Doh! The listing simply says "Symphony No.1" without any key designated. Presumably the BBC still holds the parts made for those broadcasts back in 1995, together with The Tempest overture - then again, they've probably managed to lose or misfile them...

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