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⁄ 8´³³'Ô^Òæyí½$ ‡Í'cv missgestalteten Sklaven, sind der Partitur vorangestellt: John Barbirolli hatte das Werk in Auftrag gegeben und gab zusammen mit dem Hallé Orchestra am 25. März 1953 in … the Isle is full of noises, der Free Trade Hall, Manchester die Uraufführung. ALWYN Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not: Der Festival March ist ein Auftragswerk des Arts Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Council of Great Britain für das Festival of Britain 1951. Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, Es ist ein Marsch in der besten britischen Tradition von Elizabethan Dances That if I wak’d after long sleep, Elgar und Walton. Auf die Eröffnungsfanfare folgt ein Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming, ausgedehntes Thema der Violinen und Hörner, begleitet Oboe Concerto • Aphrodite in Aulis The clouds methought would open, and show riches vom übrigen Orchester. Nach einer Klimax des vollen Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak’d Orchesters erstirbt die Musik, um dem noblen Trio Platz I cried to dream again. zu machen, vorgetragen von den Violinen und Celli im Jonathan Small, Oboe Das atmosphärische Stück beginnt sehr leise mit Unisono. Das Trio wird Grandioso vom ganzen Orchester murmelnden Streichern – später begleitet von Harfe, wiederholt, wonach eine kurze Über-gangspassage zum Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Holz- und Blechbläsern –, die das Anlaufen der Wellen Marschthema zurückführt. Dieses erreicht einen gegen die Küste vorstellen. Ein Melodiefragment des Höhepunkt mit dem fortissimo wieder-kehrenden Trio und David Lloyd-Jones Englischhorns wird von den anderen Instrumenten im bringt das Werk zu einem strahlenden Abschluss. Die Wechsel durchgeführt. Es folgt ein lebhafterer Abschnitt, Premiere am 21. Mai 1951 in der Royal Festival Hall gab und nach einer unheimlichen Passage der Solovioline, das London Philharmonic Orchestra unter Sir Malcolm begleitet von sanften Bläserakkorden und der Harfe, wird Sargent. ein Höhepunkt mit einer breiten Ausführung des Themas, auf das immer wieder hingedeutet worden ist, erreicht. Andrew Peter Knowles Die Musik stirbt dahin und endet so leise, wie sie begann. Deutsche Fassung: Thomas Theise 8.570144 8 Page XX Page XX PMS PMS 000 000 0 William Alwyn (1905–1985) Consort aus Gamben und Blockflöten, wobei die Naturvision hinein. Diese erste Einspielung überhaupt Elizabethan Dances • Oboe Concerto • Aphrodite in Aulis Streicher die Hauptidee vortragen, ausgeschmückt von gibt die Möglichkeit, ein Stück zu hören, das siebzig Jahre Flöten, Klarinetten und Harfe. Der sechste Tanz, der das nicht erklungen ist. Es ist nicht Alwyns erstes von der The orchestral music of William Alwyn spans a period of able to hear the result, an event which he always looked ganze Orchester einbezieht, wechselt zwischen Hornpipe Dichtung William Blakes inspiriertes Werk, hatte er doch fifty years from the Peter Pan Suite of 1923 to the Fifth forward to. Amongst Alwyn’s film scores are some classic und Rumba und führt den Zyklus zu einem lebhaft- bereits 1931 Gesangsvertonungen (mit Streichquartett Symphony (Hydriotaphia) of 1973 and as such forms a British films, including The Way Ahead, Desert Victory, jubilierenden Ende. oder Klavier) aus den Songs of Innocence/Songs of large and important part of his compositional output. Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The History of Mr Polly, The Innumerable Dance – An English Overture wurde Experience vorgenommen. Zwi-schen 1933 und 1938 Amongst his works in the genre are five symphonies, The Winslow Boy, The Rake’s Progress, The Rocking im November 1933 vollendet und erlebte seine erste arbeitete er schließlich an der Vertonung von Teil 1 von concertos for flute, violin, oboe, harp, piano and many Horse Winner and A Night To Remember. Radioaufführung am 8. Dezember 1935 mit dem BBC Blakes Marriage of Heaven and Hell für Soli, Doppelchor descriptive shorter pieces. In addition to these are four Alwyn’s first major work for orchestra, the brief and Orchestra (section C) unter Aylmer Buesst. Das und großes Orchester. operas, vocal, chamber and instrumental music. He was imaginatively scored Five Preludes, dating from 1927, Standardorchester ist um Celesta und Harfe erweitert, Das Concerto for Oboe, Harp and String Orchestra also a linguist, poet and painter. His mastery of were first performed the same year at the Promenade wodurch das Stück seinen Farbenreichtum erhält. Der entstand 1943/44 in London und Welwyn. Die orchestration is evident in every piece included here and Concerts at Queen’s Hall under Sir Henry Wood and Titel des Werkes entstammt einer Zeile im zweiten Buch Uraufführung gab Evelyn Rothwell, die Ehefrau von John in part comes as a result of an in-sider’s experience. started him on the road to perfecting his orchestral von William Blakes Milton. Der Partitur sind folgende Barbirolli – später ein vehementer Verfechter von Alwyns Alwyn entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1920 at technique. The Elizabethan Dances date from thirty years Zeilen aus dem Poem vorangestellt: Musik –, mit dem London Symphony Orchestra unter the age of fifteen as a flautist (with piano a second later, composed between 1956 and 1957. Although the Basil Cameron bei einem Promenadenkonzert in der instrument) and from 1922 was playing in the Academy BBC had commissioned a work from him for their Light First e’er the morning breaks, Royal Albert Hall am 12. August 1949. Das Werk hat zwei orchestra and later under the baton of Sir Edward Elgar Music Festival of 1957, the idea for the piece had been joy opens in the flowery bosoms, Sätze, die ohne Pause aufeinander folgen: der erste von with the London Symphony Orchestra, where he gained first suggested to him by his friend and publisher Bernard Joy even to tears, which the suns rising dries: pastoral-nostalgischer Stimmung, der zweite ein lebhafter immeasurable knowledge of the orchestra. He spent much de Nevers, director of Alfred Lengnick & Co Ltd. The first the Wild Thyme Tanz, in dem die Hauptidee aus dem ersten Satz gegen time studying the scores of Debussy, Richard Strauss, score bears a dedication to de Nevers. And meadow sweet, downy and soft waving among the Ende wiederkehrt. Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Szymanowski. The latter The BBC Concert Orchestra gave the première of the reeds, Aphrodite in Aulis – An Eclogue for small orchestra three had been introduced to him by his composition work at the Royal Festival Hall under the direction of the Light springing in the air, lead the sweet dance; wurde im Juni 1932 in London vollendet. Die Inspiration teacher John B. McEwen (himself a composer of a large composer on 6th July 1957. Scored for a standard size they wake für das Werk kam aus dem gleichnamigen Roman des number of works) and thus opened up a new colourful orchestra with the additional percussion instruments of The honeysuckle sleeping on the oak, irischen Schriftstellers George Moore (1852–1933), der world of possibilities to the young composer. Further castanets, wood blocks, maracas and also harp and celesta, the flaunting beauty 1930 erstmals erschienen war. Es handelt sich um eine experience was gained from his involvement with writing the six dances alternate the times of Elizabeth I and Revels along upon the wind; … every tree historische Romanze über zwei Brüder – Thrasillos, einen music for the cinema, composing some two hundred film Elizabeth II, thus providing contrasting moods. The first And flower and herb soon fill the air with an Architekten, und Rhesos, einen Bildhauer – in der Zeit scores between 1936 and 1963 for both documentary and dance portrays the pipes and tabors of Elizabeth I innumerable dance, des Phidias. Rhesos verliebt sich in Earine, weil sie das feature films. Here he was able to experiment to the full employing the full orchestra. The second is a beguiling Yet all in order sweet and lovely. reizvollste Hinterteil hat, passend für seine Skulptur der on the many varied subjects presented to him for a suitable lilting waltz with the main theme announced by the Aphrodite. Diese kurze, köstliche Miniatur für Flöte, zwei musical background to enhance the pictures’ message and strings. The third is a Morris Dance with the main theme Als echte Tondichtung – wenn auch nicht dem Namen Hörner, Harfe und Streicher erfasst die Vision der mood. It was the only medium in which he could see very first stated by a solo bassoon, which is then taken up by nach –, ist dieses Werk eine vollendete Aphrodite vollkommen. Es handelt sich wiederum um die quickly whether he had been successful in trying out some the flute before finally being presented by the strings. The Heraufbeschwörung des Frühlings. Vom leisen Beginn erste Aufnahme nach über siebzig Jahren. new way and or idea of scoring. A film score had to be fourth is a somewhat ‘bluesy’ dance with the main theme mit geteilten Tremolo-Streichern, gefolgt von ge- Das Symphonic Prelude „The Magic Island“ entstand provided fairly quickly, as it was nearly always the last announced by the violins and later presented by the full dämpften Hörnern, über die allmähliche Hinzufügung 1952 und leitet sich von Shakespeares Der Sturm her. Die process to be added before the film’s release, and Alwyn orchestra. The fifth, a quiet Pavane, suggests a consort of weiterer Instrumente bis hin zum vollen Orchester erfolgt Zauberinsel ist jene des Prospero, des rechtmäßigen threw himself into the task wholeheartedly. One week he viols and recorders with the strings carrying the main idea endlich der Sonnenaufgang. Mit dem nun folgenden Herzogs von Mailand. Die berühmten Verse aus dem 2. would be composing the score to the film, the next he was embellished by flutes clarinets and harp. The sixth, lebhaften Tanz führt Alwyn sogleich in Blakes Akt (Szene 2) über Caliban, einen wilden und 8.570144 2 7 8.570144 Page XX Page XX PMS PMS 000 000 0 William Alwyn (1905–1985) employing the full orchestra, alternates between a for voice some with the accompaniment of string quartet Elizabethan Dances • Oboe Concerto • Aphrodite in Aulis hornpipe and rumba and brings the set to a lively and and others with just piano of the Songs of Innocence and jubilant close.
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