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Perhaps Britten’s greatest opera, The Turn of the Screw contains fifteen interludes that are variations on a single theme. This fanfare is both a sixteenth variation upon that theme and my homage to a composer whose life and works have long been a crucial influence on me.
Commissioned for the Arcomis International Brass Event, held in Cardiff in 2013.