Works such as the magnificent Petrushka stand among the greatest symphonic works of any era.
His sessions listening to symphonic music with his friend Edmund Anderson had changed him.
The concert's first half was given over to symphonic fragments, starting with Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759.
In the grand symphonic tradition of Mahler and Shostakovich, Corigliano has fashioned a kaleidoscope of layered instrumental textures.
The way in which the Fourth Symphony is constructed owes very little to traditional 19th-century norms, but it is truly symphonic and truly original.
This view was not his but that of the disciples, eager to defend him against conservative critics whose orientation was towards symphonic composition.
Each of the five massive movements has its own character and yet the work coheres as a symphonic essay of sustained power and brilliance.
The song-object now dissolves into symphonic extensions without the further threat of silence or the need for strophic markers.