Symphony No. 1 (Sessions)

The Symphony No. 1 of Roger Sessions is a symphony in three movements, in E minor.
The three movements are as follows:
It was completed in January 1927, and premiered by Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on April 22, 1927. It was dedicated to Sessions' father Archibald.
It is scored for three flutes (one doubling piccolo), three oboes (one doubling English horn), four clarinets, three bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, percussion, piano, and strings.
Andrea Olmstead describes all of Sessions's symphonies as "serious" and "funereal". In contrast, Prausnitz describes this symphony as having "a joyfully jazzy, organized vigor in its fast outer movements," in contrast with the middle movement, "a somberly reflective Largo that yields nothing to overt emotion. ..."