The Seven Deadly Sins .
Pride is the longest movement.
Lust , a short but passionate intermezzo for two intertwining pairs of saxophones. Strains of the hymn Let the Lower Lights Be Burning are also discernible. Envy follows, a mournful adagio in which the flutes, oboes, and bassoons longingly repeat themes from the previous two Sins. Anger , another toccata, in which the trumpets of Pride return, and, with the horns of Anger, lead the ensemble to a furious climax. An excerpt from the Gregorian sequence for the dead, the Dies Irae , is intoned by the pianos and percussion in a stern commentary of the Seven Deadly Sins.