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Clarkes Direkter, Leidenschaftlicher Musik Welker Uraufgeführt 570429bk EU 14/9/07 3:46 pm Page 8 gestört. Black Fire wurde in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, unter Es ist nicht nötig, etwas von diesen Dingen zu wis- der Leitung des inzwischen verstorbenen Gerald Loren sen, um sich an Clarkes direkter, leidenschaftlicher Musik Welker uraufgeführt. erfreuen zu können; er aber hält es nicht für nötig, seine Einige Zeit nach der Premiere stellte Clarke fest, dass Anregungen zu verbergen und spricht immer freimütig er, ohne es zu wissen, schon ein Vorspiel zu diesem Stück von den „Auslösern“, die ihn faszinieren und inspirieren. geschrieben hatte – in Gestalt seines frühen Trompeten- werkes Premonitions. Dieses wurde zu einer passenden, Nigel an Ives erinnernden Frage und geht als Auftakt dem Klang Stella Wilson und der Wut von Black Fire voran. Deutsche Fassung: Cris Posslac CLARKE Samurai • Black Fire The Miraculous Violin Peter Sheppard Skærved, Violin Ivan Hutchinson, Trumpet Band of HM Royal Marines, Plymouth Longbow Band of HM Royal Marines, Plymouth, conducted by Lt Col Chris Davis, recording Black Fire with Lt Col Chris Davis Peter Sheppard Skærved at HMS Raleigh, Plymouth. 8.570429 8 570429bk EU 14/9/07 3:46 pm Page 2 Nigel Clarke (b.1960) Dieser informatorische Ansatz bildet auch die 1995 erhielt Nigel Clarke den Auftrag zu Samurai für Pernambuco · The Miraculous Violin · Loulan · Samurai · Premonitions · Black Fire Grundlage von Pernambuco, dem ältesten Violinstück Timothy Reynish und das symphonische Blasorchester auf dieser CD. Clarke nahm sich vor, ein Werk über den des Royal Northern College of Music im nordenglischen Nigel Clarke began his musical career as a military Andelko Krpan leant over to Sheppard Skærved. They Bogen zu schreiben, ein Instrument, das trotz seiner Manchester. Im Hinblick auf die Tatsache, dass das Stück bandsman, a trumpeter. It is fascinating that so much of say “Please don’t use this one. It’s a Serb tune”. “Then I außergewöhnlichen Technologie und technischen Fein- im japanischen Hamamatsu uraufgeführt werden sollte, his most adventurous music has been for string am definitely going to use it” retorted Clarke. This heiten kaum ins öffentliche Bewusstsein gedrungen ist. berücksichtigte er bei der Komposition verschiedene instruments. His writing for strings is extraordinarily moment provided the stimulus for the viola counter- „Pernambuco“, auch bekannt als „brasilianisches Holz“, Aspekte der Samurai-Kultur und -kriegskunst. Insbeson- idiomatic; like other non-string players such as Sir melodies in the fast inner sections of the work. As a war von großer Bedeutung für die Konstruktion des dere evoziert er zwei japanische Instrumente: die große Michael Tippett or Hans Werner Henze, he often seems result of this close collaboration, The Miraculous Violin modernen Bogens, den der französische Instrumenten- Fasstrommel Taiko, die der Kommunikation auf dem to find his most personal expression in the instruments reflects the energised physicality of the Solisti di bauer François Tourte in den 1780er Jahren entwickelte. Schlachtfeld diente, sowie die Muscheltrompete Hora- which are furthest from his experience as a performing Zagreb. The success of this work, with its dedicatees Clarke ließ sich von der aufregenden Rhythmik und den gai. Der Komponist betont, dass er auch von der schöp- musician. and subsequent ensembles, is testament to the success brillanten Farben der südamerikanischen Volksinstru- ferischen Kultur der Samurai beeindruckt war, auf die er For two decades, Nigel Clarke has collaborated of what the anthropologist Genevieve Bell has called mente sowie von Aspekten der präkolumbianischen in den langsamen, rituellen Abschnitten des Stückes with the British violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved. ‘deep hanging out’. Kunst inspirieren und schuf ein Violinstück, das sich von Bezug nimmt. Clarke hat hier versucht, eine Musik zu Together, they have led workshops for performers and Loulan was the result of just such ‘deep hanging allen andern unterscheidet und sich trotz seiner extremen schreiben, die zu einem Film von Akira Kurosawa passte. composers in China, Macedonia, Kosovo, Croatia, out’. In the autumn of 2002, Nigel Clarke and Peter physischen Anforderungen sowohl bei den Musikern wie Einige Jahre vor der Komposition von Black Fire Turkey, and the United States. This work has proved to Sheppard Skærved spent time in the city of Urumqi, the auch beim Publikum größter Beliebtheit erfreut. äußerte Nigel Clarke immer wieder seine Absicht, ein be a vital spur for the techniques and ideas behind his regional capital of Xinjiang province in China. The Während des Aufenthaltes in Xinjiang nahm The großes Stück für Violine und symphonisches Blasor- compositions. experience of this extraordinary landscape, the desert, Miraculous Violin ihre endgültige Form an. Als Clarke chester zu schreiben. Nachdem Samurai ein zentrales The Miraculous Violin was jointly commissioned the profound melting-pot of cultures, affected him mit dem Orchester von Urumqi arbeitete, stellte er fest, Repertoirewerk für Blasorchester geworden war, fasste by the British Council and I Solisti di Zagreb, to whom deeply. On the last night of the visit, the composer and dass dem Stück eine Kadenz fehlte. Diese bestand er den Entschluss, die Herausforderung anzunehmen, die it is dedicated. In order to prepare to write the work, violinist were treated to an extraordinary banquet which anfangs aus einer Improvisation, wurde dann aber durch Kurt Weill mit seinem klassischen Konzert für Violine composer and violinist spent time ‘workshopping’ with included performances of many of the traditional music eine auskomponierte Kadenz von Sheppard Skærved und Bläser gestellt hat, und die beiden üblicherweise von- this virtuoso chamber group. Typically, in the course of and dances of the region. Both composer and soloist ersetzt, die auf verschiedene frühere Stücke von Clarke einander getrennten Welten miteinander zu verbinden. workshops, Nigel Clarke can be observed listening out took copious notes of the performances, and these anspielt – besonders auf Parnassus, ein Stück für Strei- Der Titel ist durch Gustave Dorés Stiche zu Miltons Para- for musical gestures with which players are comfortable became the raw material for Loulan. Like Pernambuco cherensemble, mit dem seinerzeit die Zusammenarbeit dise Lost angeregt. Miltons mehrdeutige Parabel erschien on their instruments. These can appear in two opposing this piece is not a synthesized version of the music der beiden Studenten begann. Diese Kadenz steht, wie bei ihm als perfekte Metapher für das „Zeitalter der Angst“, ways; most obviously, through the gradual exploratory which Clarke heard, but a highly distilled response to Mendelssohn, in der Mitte des Stückes. in dem das Stück komponiert ist. Um diese Stimmung zu process of the workshop, exploring colour by colour, or the whole experience, one which manifested itself in Als Nigel Clarke mit Sheppard Skærved gemeinsam betonen, wird ein Zitat aus Richard Wagners Götterdäm- in the ‘off-the-cuff’ licks and runs which most players new colours and timbres on the violin, and a profound in Ankara arbeitete, hatte er erstmals die Möglichkeit, mit merung verwendet. Clarke betont, dass es sich bei diesem will use to relax, warm up, or in fun. This careful simplicity of structure and utterance. einer türkischen Militärkapelle zu kooperieren. Diese Werk um kein Konzert handelt, sondern um ein Drama listening enables him to construct ‘swatches’ of sound- This exploratory approach was also fundamental to Erfahrung und die lange Zusammenarbeit mit türkischen für Orchester und Solisten in der Tradition von Berlioz – colours; from these, little tapestries of effect can be the earliest violin piece on this disc, Pernambuco. Komponisten wie Sıdıka Özdil und Yig˘it Kolat waren wobei hier dem Solisten die Rolle Satans zugewiesen ist. constructed, which are often the raw material, the Stoff Clarke had been speaking of his determination to write wesentliche Elemente, die zur Entwicklung der tumult- In Paradise Lost spricht Milton von den Teufeln, die aus from which a piece will emerge. In one instance in a piece about the bow, an instrument, which, despite its haft schnellen Musik von Black Fire führten. Da Nigel dem Himmel vertrieben wurden und nun vertrockneten Zagreb, Kre‰imir, a viola-player, burst in with a extraordinary technological and technical subtleties has Clarke selbst seine musikalische Karriere als Militärmu- Blättern gleich im Tal des Arno liegen. Clarke verdreht spectacular dance-tune, played with fantastic colours. barely entered the public consciousness. ‘Pernambuco’ siker begonnen hatte, interessierte ihn natürlich die Zeit in seinem Stück, das damit endet, dass Satan in Nigel Clarke sprang up from his chair in the middle of also known as ‘brazil wood’ became vital to the besonders die Beziehung zwischen der westeuropäischen bösem Heroismus zu seiner selbstmörderischen Mission the circle of players. “That’s great, we’ll use it! What is construction of the modern bow, developed in the Militärmusiktradition und der Musik des einstigen Osma- abhebt, um Gottes jüngste Schöpfung, die Erde, zu ver- it?” This was greeted with hoots of laughter, and good- 1780s by the French maker François Tourte. Clarke nischen Reiches, die in der Militärmusik der Türkei und nichten. Sein stiller Aufbruch wird dabei nur ein wenig humoured derision was hurled at the violist. The leader, took inspiration from the rhythmic excitement and der Balkanstaaten noch immer ihren Widerhall findet. durch das Rascheln der niedergeschlagenen
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