Cat No. JM31026
Price £136.00
Composer: Robert Simpson
Category: TEST PIECES (Major Works)
Difficulty level: Championship
Duration 22.00

Previously used as a Championship Section testpiece.

This major work for Brass Band is a symphony in all but name.

The Four Temperaments was commissioned by the Yorkshire Imperial Band and first performed by them in 1983. The suite depicts the four traditional temperaments, as Nielsen had done in his second symphony: Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Melancholic, and Choleric, though each movement stands up as absolute music. The composer has said of The Four Temperaments: 'The Melancholic wants to be broad, warm and grand, without haste or hysteria. As for the rest, it should go like a bomb.' It does!