Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934), arr. Simon Lenton
Farewell to Stromness
Brass Quintet
Farewell to Stromness is a piano interlude from a much larger cabaret-style work entitled ''The Yellow Cake Revue''. It was first performed in 1980 as part of the St Magnus Festival in Orkney, Scotland where Maxwell Davies has lived for most of his life. The Yellow Cake Revue took its name from the popular term for refined uranium ore, and the revue was written to highlight the threat of a proposed uranium mine to the economy and ecology of the Orkney Islands. Stromness is the second largest town in Orkney and if the mine had gone ahead it would have been just two miles from the uranium mine's core and therefore the centre most threatened by pollution.
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Duration: 4:00