We are grateful to the University of Edinburgh Library Centre for Research Collections for providing us with access to a manuscript of this work. At shelf-mark Mus.M.645 lives a set of parts in the hand of an unknown copyist, annotated by John Parr (The Bassoonist of Sheffield), who also wrote a full score and second copies of the Bassoon and Bass parts.

The score is dated 1930 and the bassoon part 1934. It is here entitled merely ‘duet for flute and bassoon with orchestra’, and ascribed to R...