FM254

Apple-Gathering

Autumn Poem

for orchestra

Peter Thompson

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Apple-Gathering, an Autumn Poem, was composed in, and between, two autumns – those of 2014 and 2015. However, the kernel of the material came much earlier and from a setting of words by Damaris West, Apple-Gathering, a poem originally written in 1976 and set for voice and piano in the summer of 1985.

The orchestral version is an entirely new score, but a quotation from the poem acts as a preface:

    An orchard – small green island

    Where the afternoon is held imprisoned

    Like the glow within a jewel’s heart.

—Damaris West

The orchestra is for double woodwind, two horns, one trumpet, percussion, timpani and strings.

Composer Title Forces Duration
Peter Thompson Apple-Gathering
Autumn Poem
for orchestra 		Orchestra 10½ mins

Catalogue code: FM254 • Published: 8th September 2022
Entry last updated: 8th September 2022