| Dated: | 1977 |
| Instrumentation: | choir (men or women, twenty voices minimum) and eighteen instrumentalists: 5 horns, 3 trombones, 6 cellos and 4 double basses |
| Timing: | 14' |
| Premiere: | November 19, 1977 at the Recontres Internationales de Musique Contemporaine in Metz, France |
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| Published: | Editions Salabert |
| The text is taken from Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. Recording available at Hyperion CDA66980 |