Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

The piece starts very quietly: low strings pluck hints of the tune between soft, swaying bowed chords. The full theme enters with section A, shared by the two orchestras and the quartet. Through the Transition and the long B section come a series of episodes: the orchestras divide, a solo viola leads a variation, and the swaying figure builds to a loud climax. After the Retransition the themes return in A′, and in the Coda the solo violin soars before the music settles on a G major chord.

1. 0:03Introduction
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