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Case studies:
The Feeney
Commissions
Feeney Ballet Scholarship

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List of Feeney Commissions
Recent Commission
Colin Matthew's Violin Concerto was performed in Birmingham Symphony Hall in September 2009.
Past Commissions
| Composer |
Title of work |
Date |
Where performed |
| Sir Arthur Bliss |
Meditations on a Theme by John Blow* |
13.12.1955 |
Birmingham |
| Michael Tippett |
Piano Concerto* |
30.10.1956 |
Birmingham |
| Peter Wishart |
Concerto for Orchestra |
14.3.1957 |
Birmingham |
| Edmund Rubbra |
Symphony No.7 |
1.10.1957 |
Birmingham |
| Lennox Berkeley |
Symphony No.2 |
24.5.1959 |
Birmingham |
| Alan Rawsthorne |
Symphony No.2 |
29.9.1959 |
Birmingham |
| Alun Hoddinott |
Violin Concerto |
30.3.1961 |
Birmingham |
| John Gardner |
Herrick Cantata |
30.11.1961 |
Birmingham |
| Andrzej Panufnik |
Piano Concerto |
25.1.1962 |
Birmingham |
| Humphrey Searle |
Symphony No.4 |
8.11.1962 |
Birmingham |
| Robert Simpson |
Symphony No.3 |
14.3.1963 |
Birmingham |
| Sir Arthur Bliss |
Mary of Magdala |
2.9.1963 |
Worcester |
| Elizabeth Maconchy |
Serenata Concertante for Violin & Orch |
17.10.1963 |
Birmingham |
| John Gardner |
The Noble Heart |
14.6.1964 |
Stratford-upon-Avon |
| Don Banks |
Divisions for Orchestra |
12.7.1965 |
Cheltenham |
| Gordon Crosse |
Sinfonia Concertante |
14.7.1965 |
Cheltenham |
| Peter Racine Fricker |
Symphony No.4 |
14.2.1967 |
Cheltenham |
| Thea Musgrave |
Concerto for Orchestra |
8.3.1968 |
Royal Festival Hall |
| Richard Rodney Bennett |
Piano Concerto |
19.9.1968 |
Birmingham |
| Richard Henninger |
Catena |
5.3.1970 |
Birmingham |
| Kenneth Leighton |
Piano Concerto No.3 |
11.3.1970 |
Wolverhampton |
| Peter Dickinson |
Transformations |
3.7.1970 |
Cheltenham |
| John McCabe |
Symphony No.2* |
25.9.1971 |
Birmingham |
| Humphrey Searle |
Labyrinth |
18.11.1971 |
Birmingham |
| Anthony Gilbert |
Ghost and Dream Dancing |
19.9.1974 |
Birmingham |
| Nicola LeFanu |
Columbia Falls |
20.11.1975 |
Birmingham |
| Richard Rodney Bennett |
Violin Concerto |
25.3.1976 |
Birmingham |
| John Mayer |
Mandala ki Raga Sangeet |
17.2.1977 |
Birmingham |
| John Casken |
Tableaux des Trois Ages |
29.9.1977 |
Birmingham |
| Christopher Brown |
Triptych (3 Symph'c Pieces after Dürer) |
7.12.1978 |
Birmingham |
| John Tavener |
Palintropos, for Piano and Orchestra |
1.3.1979 |
Birmingham |
| Roger Marsh |
Still (as far as may be) |
13.11.1980 |
Birmingham |
| Paul Patterson |
Concerto for Orchestra |
12.11.1981 |
Birmingham |
| John Joubert |
Gong-Tormented Sea |
29.4.1982 |
Birmingham |
| Toru Takemitsu |
Vers l'arc-en-ciel, Palma |
2.10.1984 |
Birmingham |
| Mark Anthony Turnage |
Three Screaming Popes* |
5.10.1989 |
Birmingham |
| Robin Holloway |
Seascape and Harvest |
29.4.1986 |
Birmingham |
| Tristan Murail |
Time and time again |
21.1.1986 |
Birmingham |
| Alexander Goehr |
Eve Dreams in Paradise |
14.3.1989 |
Birmingham |
| Robin Holloway |
The Spacious Firmament |
21.1.1992 |
Birmingham |
| Sofia Gubaidulina |
Zeitgestalten (Figures of Time) |
29.11.1994 |
Birmingham |
| Judith Weir |
Forest* |
13.12.1995 |
Birmingham |
| Thomas Adès |
Asyla* |
1.10.1997 |
Birmingham |
| Erkki Sven Tüür |
Exodus* |
26.11.1999 |
Birmingham |
| John Joubert |
Nativity Prelude |
21.12.2004 |
Birmingham |
| Tansy Davies |
Streamlines |
18.02.2007 |
Birmingham |
| Fyfe Dangerfield |
In Wait |
11.10.2007 |
Birmingham |
| Colin Matthews |
Violin Concerto |
30.9.2009 |
Birmingham |
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* Available on CD:
Bliss, Meditations on a Theme by John Blow, CBSO/Rignold
Lyrita SRCD 254
Tippett, Piano Concerto, Steven Osborne BBC Scottish SO/Brabbins
Hyperion CD A67461/2
McCabe, Symphony No 2, CBSO/Fremaux
EMI 556818-2
Turnage, Three Screaming Popes, CBSO/Rattle
EMI TSP 2 04681 2
Weir, Forest, BBC SO/Brabbins
NMC D137
Adès, Asyla, CBSO/Rattle
EMI 556818-2
Tuur, Exodus
ECM 472 497-2
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