Orchestration: 2fl(II+picc), 2ob(II+ca), 2cl, 2bsn, 2hn, 2tpt, tbn, timp, 3perc (pti, tri, BD, SD, sus cym, glock, xyl, bell, rattles), hp, str
Orchestrated by Martin Yates
Originally the title for Vaughan Williams's opera Sir John in Love, Fat Knight was conceived as a seven-movement orchestral suite that drew upon the opera and had, as its central character, Shakespeare's Falstaff. Vaughan Williams never completed the work and left only a two-piano score. It is from this score that the conductor Martin Yates has realised the Fat Knight suite, incorporating the orchestration from the completed opera.