DOCSLIB.ORG

1. Tristan and Isolde Prelude 9.17 2. Praeludium 2.39 3. Nabucco Overture 6.39 4

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
1. Tristan and Isolde Prelude 9.17 2. Praeludium 2.39 3. Nabucco Overture 6.39 4 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK DOY CD164 1. Tristan and Isolde Prelude 9.17 2. Praeludium 2.39 3. Nabucco Overture 6.39 4. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring 5.59 5. Academic Festive Overture 9.55 6.-10. Giles Farnaby Suite 6.55 6. Galiarda 1.23 7. His Dream 1.18 8. His Humour 1.17 Executive Producer 9. His Rest 1.27 Trevor Caffull Producer 10. Mal Sims 1.30 Paul Hindmarsh 11. Froissart Overture 13.30 Sound Engineer Richard Scott 12. Des Pas sur la Neige 3.50 Digital Editing & Mastering 13.-16. Four Scottish Dances 8.53 R.E. Editing Programme Notes 13. Movement I 2.08 Trevor Herbert 14. Movement II 2.06 Project Manager Kevin J Coates MBE 15. Movement III 3.18 Artwork & Cover Design 16. Movement IV 1.21 GK Graphic Design. Recorded at Morley Town Hall Total CD Playing Time 68.26 during 2005 C & Salvationist Publishing and Supplies Ltd. 66-78 Denington Road, Wellingborough, Northants. NN8 2QH All rights of the owner and of the producer of the works reproduced reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this recording prohibited. (MCPS) Code No. Booklet-Pgs12&1 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK Classical Arrangements Grimethorpe Colliery Band This, the penultimate disc in The History of Brass Band I believe I was the first to present Tudor music to the bands Music series is devoted entirely to transcriptions from – this a long time ago as an 18 year old. These pieces orchestral scores and in two cases arrangements of were scored some years later in my twenties; I felt they keyboard pieces. I have tried to demonstrate the great gave a freshness to band sound. Howard Snell is one of the variety of styles which have attracted the attention of greatest arranger-transcribers of all. Des Pas sur la Neige those experts in the genre which not only tie necessary (Steps in the Snow) is a miracle of delicacy, mystery, musical skills successfully to transform original scores into nuance, a million miles away from any clichéd approach. a convincing new form, but too with that streak of daring even recklessness which takes one by surprise. The disc finishes in high virtuosity with Ray Farr’s brilliant, technically exhilarating version of Arnold’s Four Scottish Alexander Owen certainly surprises. None other in his Dances. Here is the modern sound par excellence, bright day would have dared set music from Tristan and Isolde, few but multi-coloured rivalling the original orchestral score in would now. His transcription of the famous Prelude is its excitement. Malcolm Arnold loved it. included in the much longer Grand Selection. It provided Soprano Cornet Flugel Horn Solo Euphonium Bb Bass a benchmark for the future. As with all the recordings in this series there are omissions I regret. Alexander ‘Sandy’ Smith deserves a place here, he Kevin Crockford Ian Shires Michael Dodd Dean Morley William Halliwell is most famous as a conductor and leader, is as talented an arranger as he is the outstanding tenor Gary Proctor but Järnefelt’s Praeludium in his hands sparkles with light horn player of his generation. Circumstances prevented the Principal Cornet Solo Horn Second Euphonium charm and quiet humour. William Rimmer, one of the inclusion of any of his work here. band world’s most influential figures is included here in a Richard Marshall Alexander Smith Shaun Hudson Percussion bold version of Verdi’s Nabucco Overture. Norway, which has provided several fine bands during the Peter Matthews last 25 years or so, has emerged as a sourse of brilliant Solo Cornet First Horn Solo Trombone David Hartland To slightly more modern times – the band sound changing arrangers – three in particular; Reid Gilje, Fröde Rydland John Hudson Jim Fletcher Richard Brown Gavin Pritchard somewhat with the grace and tact of Denis Wrights’ pen. and Svein-Henrik Giske – all current members of the Brahms Academic Festival Overture recorded here is one Eikanger-Bjørsvik Band. There will be others in the future. Gregory Timmins Richard Clough of his most popular contributions to the bands’ repertoire. Elgar Howarth David Barraclough Second Horn Second Trombone Stephen Peacock Stephen Haynes Band Secretary Most ‘surprising’ of all is On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Second Cornet Terry Webster Spring of Delius. Logically it should not work; amazingly Peter Warlock’s transcription does – beautifully, illustrating Mike Kennedy Solo Baritone Bass Trombone the poetic potential of the medium. Martin Grimes Robert Archer Mark Frost Second Baritone Eric Ball’s work as composer and transcriber is well documented. Never brash he makes a very personal sound, Third Cornet Clifford Hopes Eb Bass in love with the cantabile style for which the bands are Colin Brook Shaun Crowther famous without losing their ability for full blooded drama. Michael Green Richard Wilton Howard Snell and I occupy the arrangement slots. Code No. Booklet-Pgs&11 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK The Grimethorpe Colliery Band Elgar Howarth Elgar Howarth was born into a brass A longstanding ambition has been band family, becoming principal cornet achieved during the last 10 years or so The Grimethorpe Colliery Band was formed in band were due to contest the National Brass Band of the Barton Hall Works Band when at Garsington Festival Opera, where he 1917, as a leisure activity for the workmen at the Championships at the Royal Albert Hall, London. only 14 years old. His father, the band's has conducted a succession of operas by colliery. It was initially financed by the colliery, a Needless to say, the pressure was immense, the conductor, was his only teacher until, Richard Strauss. sister company, and a welfare fund set up by the world's media seized on the band as a 'new angle' at the age of 17, he took trumpet miners themselves. The musicians, most of whom for their stories, but, as in all the best fairy tales, lessons from Cecil Kidd at the Royal In March 1997 Howarth was recognised worked at the colliery full-time, perfected their the band triumphed to become the Champion Manchester College of Music, by which for his achievements in the field of skills through competition. From 1932 to 1945 Band of Great Britain. time he had won the Alexander Owen Opera and was the recipient of an the band entered 42 such competitions, winning Memorial Scholarship and written his Olivier Award, with particular reference 19 and never coming lower than fifth! Soon after the victory at the Nationals a board first piece for brass band. to his work on Henze's of trustees was formed to manage the finances of Prince of and Zimmerman's The turning point in Grimethorpe's history, the band through this difficult period. Financial Homburg Die Soldaten. After studying at Manchester University he became however, was the appointment of Elgar Howarth backing continued from British Coal until 1995 a professional trumpeter, first with the Royal Opera When, in 1972, he was invited to become Music as professional conductor and music adviser when RJB Mining PLC agreed to fund the band, House Orchestra at Covent Garden and later with Adviser to the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, he in 1972. An outsider to the brass band world, an agreement which continues to this day under various London orchestras and ensembles. It was accepted on the understanding that the band would (although he did play in a band as a boy, its new name of UK Coal. with the London Sinfonietta that he made his engage wholeheartedly in new, modern scores - often conducted by his father) Howarth's association conducting debut in 1969. His career since 1975 has commissions of the most uncompromising virtuosity. with Grimethorpe was the inspiration behind the Greater international fame came with the making been international, conducting opera and concerts Composition has remained, in fact, a major interest commissioning of new works by leading avant of the 1995 film Brassed Off! for which the in most European countries as well as appearing for himself, and he lists among many pieces for brass garde composers. The band has commissioned band provided the soundtrack music The film regularly with the leading British orchestras and band and ensembles, his own favourites as: works from such composers as Hans Werner was nominated for a BAFTA award and as a Songs for opera companies. Henze and Sir Harrison Birtwistle. result the band has toured extensively ever since BL, Hymns at Heaven's Gate, The Euphonium Concerto (subtitled , throughout Europe and further afield to Japan, Stories for Saroyan) Fanfares for Philip Jones Opera indeed has been an obsession since 1978 and . In 1992, shock waves reverberated around Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and USA. Ascendit in Coeli when he premièred Ligeti's in the mining community in Great Britain when The band has also recently become the first ever Le Grand Macabre Stockholm. Since then he has fulfilled invitations Wearing his other hat, under the pseudonym W. the government announced its programme brass band to become an ensemble-in-residence from, for example, Covent Garden, English National Hogarth Lear, Howarth has written a series of of pit closures. It soon became apparent that at the Royal College of Music in London. With Opera, Opera North, Glyndebourne and further light pieces which proved popular with television Grimethorpe was on the list of mines to be shut. the continued support of UK Coal, the band is in afield, Sydney, Hamburg and Paris. audiences through the Granada Band of the Year Even as recently as 1992, 17 members of the band good health and it's future now looks secure. Contest during the seventies.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Current Great Gate of Kiev Built in 1982 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo: ©Mark Laycock
    The current Great Gate of Kiev built in 1982 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo: ©Mark Laycock Nieweg Chart Pictures at an Exhibition; Картинки c выставки; Kartinki s vystavki; Tableaux d'une Exposition By Modeste Mussorgsky A Guide to Editions Up Date 2018 Clinton F. Nieweg 1. Orchestra editions 2. String Orchestra editions 3. Wind Ensemble/Band editions 4. Chamber Ensemble editions 5. Other non-orchestral arrangements 6. Keyboard editions 7. Sites, Links and Documentation about the 'Pictures' 8. Reference Sources 9. Publishers and Agents In this chart the composer’s name is spelled as cataloged by the publishers. They use Модест Мусоргский, Moussorgski, Musorgskii, Musorgskij, Musorgsky, Mussorgskij, or Mussorgsky. He was inspired to compose Pictures at an Exhibition quickly, completing the piano score in three weeks 2–22 June 1874. Movement Codes 1. Promenade I 2. Gnomus 3. Promenade II 4. The Old Castle 5. Promenade III 6. Tuileries: Children Quarreling at Play 7. Bydło 8. Promenade IV 9. Ballet of Unhatched Chicks 10. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle 11. Promenade V 12. The Market Place at Limoges - Le Marché 13. Catacombæ (Sepulcrum Romanum) 14. Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua 15. Hut on Fowl’s Legs (Baba-Yaga) 16. The Great Gate of Kiev Recordings: For information about recordings of all 606 known arrangements and 1041 recordings (as of August 2015), see the chart by David DeBoor Canfield, President, International Kartinki s vystavki Association. www.daviddeboorcanfield.org Click on Exhibition. Click on Arrangements. For the August 2018 update of 1112 recordings see Canfield in Sites, Links and Documentation about the 'Pictures' below.
    [Show full text]
  • Modern Trumpet•1
    The Art of the Modern Trumpet •1 ENESCU•HINDEMITH•HONEGGER•LIGETI MARTINU° •MAXWELL DAVIES•WILLIAMS Huw Morgan, Trumpet Patricia Ulrich, Piano The Art of the Modern Trumpet • 1 World War Two, Hindemith’s remarkable creativity continued Born in Wales, Christopher Williams graduated from George Enescu • Paul Hindemith • Arthur Honegger • György Ligeti apace: 1939 was a particularly fruitful year, which included Cardiff University and now leads a varied professional life as the birth of the Violin Concerto and sonatas for viola, clarinet, a pianist, composer, conductor, teacher and arranger. Bohuslav Martinů • Peter Maxwell Davies • Christopher J.G. Williams and horn (part of his series of substantial works to challenge Williams is currently Assistant Director of the BBC National The repertoire of The Art of the Modern Trumpet spans a where he composed four morceaux de concours serious amateur performers of virtually every solo Chorus of Wales and a staff accompanist at the Royal Welsh period which can easily be described as the instrument’s (‘competition pieces’) for the internal examinations of the instrument). Arguably, the Sonata for Trumpet and Piano is College of Music and Drama, as well as being in great ‘second golden age’. Almost 150 years after the pinnacle of Paris Conservatoire. Among these works, Légende, his arguably the finest in the cycle – skilfully combining demand as a chamber musician. The kaleidoscopic the virtuoso clarino performer, whose agility in the upper single-movement concert piece written in 1906 and Hindemith’s
    [Show full text]
  • 5 Edition, 2018 Gavin Holman
    The Brass Band Bibliography 5th edition, 2018 Gavin Holman Contents Brass Bands in General ................................................................... 3 Specific Brass Bands .................................................................... 44 Biographical ..................................................................................70 Methods & Performance ............................................................... 81 Music – published and manuscript ............................................. 85 Pedagogy ...................................................................................... 94 Instrumentation & Scoring .......................................................... 96 Conducting .................................................................................... 97 Health & Physiology ..................................................................... 99 Brass Instruments in general ...................................................... 101 Cornets & Trumpets .................................................................... 112 Horns (tenor & alto) .....................................................................115 Baritones & Euphoniums ............................................................ 116 Trombones .................................................................................. 118 Tubas ........................................................................................... 121 Percussion ................................................................................... 123
    [Show full text]
  • Tableaux D'une Exposition
    Tableaux d'une exposition ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE HÅKAN HARDENBERGER direction er VENDREDI1 DÉCEMBRE 20H AARON COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (5 minutes environ) MAGNUS LINDBERG Ottoni (création française) (13 minutes environ) GUNTHER SCHULLER Symphonie pour cuivres et percussion opus 16 1. Andante – Allegro - Andante 2. Vivace 3. Lento desolato 4. Quasi cadenza - Allegro. (18 minutes environ) – Entracte – MODESTE MOUSSORGSKI ORCHESTRATION D'ELGAR HOWARTH Tableaux d’une exposition Promenade - Gnomus - Promenade - Il Vecchio castello - Promenade - Tuileries - Bydlo - Promenade - Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques - Samuel Goldenberg et Schmuyle - Promenade - Limoges, le marché - Catacombes - Cum mortuis in lingua mortua - La cabane sur des pattes de poule - La Grande Porte de Kiev (35 minutes environ) ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE HÅKAN HARDENBERGER direction Ce concert sera diffusé en direct sur France Musique, également disponible sur francemusique.com AARON COPLAND 1900-1990 d’impôts sur le revenu. » Réponse amusée de Copland : « Je suis entièrement Fanfare for the Common Man d’accord pour honorer le Common Man au moment des déclarations d’impôts sur Composée en 1942. Créée le 12 mars 1943 par l’Orchestre symphonique de Cincinnati dirigé par Eugène le revenu. » Goossens. Manuscrit conservé à la Bibliothèque du Congrès de Washington. Nomenclature : 4 cors, Connaissant un succès immédiat, cette courte page pour cuivres et 3 trompettes, 3 trombones, 1 tuba. percussions (écrite bénévolement) retentira dans le final de saTroisième Symphonie, et sera utilisée d’innombrables fois jusqu’à ce jour. De funérailles en inaugurations politiques, de rencontres sportives en films publicitaires, de musique de recrutement « Ceci est le combat entre un monde esclave et un monde libre.
    [Show full text]
  • Liner Notes From
    u Quartet Alexander Goehr (6. 7932) The majority of composers, it seems, have yet to get over the impact of the Modern Movement of sixty years ago. Reactionaries continue to regard the innovations of Schoenberg and Stravinsky as tending to undermine the good old tradition while the avant-garde views the same advances as an obligation to perpetual revolution. How- ever, a third group of composers, as yet regretably small, sees the most hopeful way forward out of the resulting confusion as that of the modest progressive. Alexander Goehr, for instance, holds that, properly understood, the new resources of twentieth century composition offer means not of supplanting but of enriching the grammar and syntax of musical understanding as it has evolved beneath the surface of the varying musical styles of the last few centuries. Thus the harmonic distinction of all his works since the Two Choruses op. 14 arises from a syn- thesis of Schoenberg's serial principle with the modality of Messiaen to create a 'transformational grammar' for pitch relationships in some ways analagous with tonality in the days of its potency. That Goehr has absorbed many of the most radical developments of this century will be clear from this disc. Yet at the same time, and without a hint of neo-classicism, these works attain an intimacy and depth reminiscent of some of the great chamber works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Second String Quartet was commissioned by Lord Dynevor and first performed complete by the Allegri String Quartet in October 1967. The first movement is an extended set of double variations.
    [Show full text]
  • The Cambridge Companion To: the ORCHESTRA
    The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra This guide to the orchestra and orchestral life is unique in the breadth of its coverage. It combines orchestral history and orchestral repertory with a practical bias offering critical thought about the past, present and future of the orchestra as a sociological and as an artistic phenomenon. This approach reflects many of the current global discussions about the orchestra’s continued role in a changing society. Other topics discussed include the art of orchestration, score-reading, conductors and conducting, international orchestras, and recording, as well as consideration of what it means to be an orchestral musician, an educator, or an informed listener. Written by experts in the field, the book will be of academic and practical interest to a wide-ranging readership of music historians and professional or amateur musicians as well as an invaluable resource for all those contemplating a career in the performing arts. Colin Lawson is a Pro Vice-Chancellor of Thames Valley University, having previously been Professor of Music at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has an international profile as a solo clarinettist and plays with The Hanover Band, The English Concert and The King’s Consort. His publications for Cambridge University Press include The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet (1995), Mozart: Clarinet Concerto (1996), Brahms: Clarinet Quintet (1998), The Historical Performance of Music (with Robin Stowell) (1999) and The Early Clarinet (2000). Cambridge Companions to Music Composers
    [Show full text]
  • Harrison Birtwistle Composer
    Harrison Birtwistle Composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle CH was born in Ensemble Modern and the London Accrington, England in 1934 and studied Sinfonietta, was premiered in 2003. The clarinet and composition at the Royal following year brought first performances Manchester College of Music, making of The Io Passion for Aldeburgh Almeida contact with a highly talented group of Opera and Night's Black Bird contemporaries including Peter Maxwell commissioned by Roche for the Lucerne Davies, Alexander Goehr, John Ogdon and Festival. A disc featuring Night's Black Elgar Howarth. In 1965 he sold his Bird has since won the 2011 Gramophone clarinets to devote his efforts to Contemporary Award and the 2012 BBC composition, and the following year Music Magazine Premiere Recording travelled to Princeton as a Harkness award. Fellow where he completed the opera Punch and Judy . This work, together with His opera The Minotaur received its Verses for Ensembles and The Triumph of premiere at the Royal Opera House Covent Time , firmly established Birtwistle as a Garden in 2008 and has been released on leading voice in British music. DVD by Opus Arte. It has since returned to the Royal Opera House for a revival in The decade from 1973 to 1984 was early 2013. In 2009, his music theatre work dominated by the monumental lyric The Corridor opened the Aldeburgh tragedy The Mask of Orpheus and by the Festival and toured to the Southbank series of remarkable ensemble scores now Centre and the Bregenz Festival, with performed by the world's leading new further performances in New York and “ A great original ..
    [Show full text]
  • Chimes in Time Booklet BOOKLET24 26/03/2012 13:47 Page 1
    Chimes in Time booklet_BOOKLET24 26/03/2012 13:47 Page 1 Chimes in Time Panayiotis Demopoulos Piano 1 Propel 2.44 Anthony Gilbert 2 Seventeen or eighteen inaudible canons (2004) 1.57 David Ellis 3 Several Gardens (2011) 9.17 Panayiotis Demopoulos 4-9 Four Studies in six parts ("For One Who Hears Different Colours") David Ellis Intrada & Ricercare 3.36 Electric Epiphany 4.17 Interlude with Flowers 1.37 Largo - Procession & Fugue - Grazioso & Coda (Largo) 8.25 10-11 Nonomiya 6.11 9.04 Alexander Goehr 12 Chimes in Time Round-dance for piano (2010) 8.20 Anthony Gilbert 13 Moto non Perpetuo 1.20 David Ellis 14-19 Do Well poems for piano (1988-2010) 15.45 Anthony Gilbert Chatkwell 0.51 Toll 2.45 John’s Peal 2.26 Farewell 3.32 Speedwell 2.32 Duelo 3.10 8 1 Chimes in Time booklet_BOOKLET24 26/03/2012 13:47 Page 2 Propel Anthony Gilbert Alexander Goehr, composer and teacher, was born in Berlin on 10 August 1932, son of the con - ductor Walter Goehr, and was brought to England in 1933. He studied with Richard Hall at the Royal Propel, the most recent and the first on this disc, is dedicated to David Ellis and is intended as a pair to Manchester College of Music, where together with Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies and Chimes in Time , written in memory of his late wife. As its title suggests, it is driven by its own energy at John Ogdon he formed the New Music Manchester Group, and with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne high speed, with brief hesitations, through varying colours of light and shade to a wide-open non-ending Loriod in Paris.
    [Show full text]
  • New Directions in Contemporary Music Theatre
    University of Wollongong Research Online University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016 University of Wollongong Thesis Collections 1986 New directions in contemporary music theatre Lynette Frances Williams University of Wollongong Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses University of Wollongong Copyright Warning You may print or download ONE copy of this document for the purpose of your own research or study. The University does not authorise you to copy, communicate or otherwise make available electronically to any other person any copyright material contained on this site. You are reminded of the following: This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this work may be reproduced by any process, nor may any other exclusive right be exercised, without the permission of the author. Copyright owners are entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. A reproduction of material that is protected by copyright may be a copyright infringement. A court may impose penalties and award damages in relation to offences and infringements relating to copyright material. Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form. Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong. Recommended Citation Williams, Lynette Frances, New directions in contemporary music theatre, Master of Arts (Hons.) thesis, School of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, 1986. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/2260 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong.
    [Show full text]
  • BLACK DYKE BAND Conducted by Professor Nicholas J
    CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK Page 16 Page 1 DOY CD348 OUrNEY OF THE LONE WOLF 1. ouney of the Lone Wolf Simon Dobson 16.59 Première Studio Recording © Faber Music 2.-4. Sonatina Elgar Howarth Première Studio Recording © Kirklees Music Cornet Soloist Richard Marshall Conductor Elgar Howarth i.4.45 ii.5.07 iii.7.38 5. Muckle Flugga Rory Boyle 16.45 Première Studio Recording © Kirklees Music 6.-8. This Wicked Stuggle Stan Nieuwenhuis Tenor Horn Soloist Jonathan Bates © Band Press VOF i. Maestoso 2.01 ii. Adagio 3.29 iii. Allegro 3.43 9. The Legend of King Athu Peter Meechan 16.44 © Peter Meechan Music Total CD Playing Time 77.40 BLACK DYKE BAND Conducted by Professor Nicholas J. Childs & Elgar Howarth DOYCD348 Booklet-Pgs16&1 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK Page 2 Page 15 ouney of the Lone Wolf - Simon Dobson PErSONNEL LIST Black Dyke Band's spectacular first performance of Journey of the Lone Wolf at Manchester's Soprano Cornet Solo Horn Solo Euphonium Bridgewater Hall, as part of the 2014 RNCM Festival of Brass, heralded a landmark Benjamin Richeton Jonathan Bates Gary Curtin year for composer Simon Dobson (b.1981). His acclaimed 104 minute score for the British Film Institute's restoration of the 1927 epic World War 1 silent film The Battles Principal Cornet 1st Horn 2nd Euphonium of Coronel and Falkland Islands was a second major project of the year, and following its Richard Marshall Helen Varley Daniel Thomas publication in a slightly shortened form, not recorded here, Journey of the Lone Wolf was Assistant Principal Cornet performed in a brass band competition in Holland, as a set test, and elsewhere in Europe.
    [Show full text]
  • The Cry of Anubis
    Harrison Birtwistle Night’s Black Bird The Shadow of Night The Cry of Anubis The Hallé Owen Slade tuba Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Harrison Birtwistle Photo: Hanya Chlala / Arenapal.com Photo: Hanya Chlala / 1 Night’s Black Bird 14'04 2 The Shadow of Night 28'15 3 The Cry of Anubis 13'24 Owen Slade tuba Total timing 55'58 The Hallé Owen Slade tuba Ryan Wigglesworth conductor This recording is made possible in part by Roche, who also commissioned the composition of Night’s Black Bird by Sir Harrison Birtwistle in 2003. 3 Harrison Birtwistle: A Personal Note by Ryan Wigglesworth Like Birtwistle, I grew up in the industrial North, though on the – a fact manifestly displayed by the three works on the present opposite side of the Pennines. And like Birtwistle my earliest disk, each recorded here for the first time. And while the gut- experience of music making came from playing in the local band wrenching forcefulness of Verses, Tragoedia and Punch and Judy, (mine brass, his military). In themselves, such slight childhood or the monolithic grandeur of Mask of Orpheus and Earth Dances parallels are of little significance, and yet, when as a thirteen-year- may have given way to a more subtle, perhaps more reflective old budding composer I came to experience quite by chance discourse in The Shadow of Night, Night’s Black Bird, and The Cry Birtwistle’s music for the first time, the world it inhabited felt of Anubis, this is certainly not indicative of any late-period immediately and strangely familiar.
    [Show full text]
  • Thesis Final Submission
    This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ ‘Max-imising’ madness in music the gift of madness in the music of Peter Maxwell Davies Mesbahian, Fetemeh Upa Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Non Commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No Derivative Works - You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you receive permission from the author. Your fair dealings and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 26. Sep. 2021 ‘Max-imising’ Madness in Music: The Gift of Madness in the Music of Peter Maxwell Davies Upa Mesbahian King’s College London A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Music March 2019 !1 Abstract Perhaps no composer of the twentieth century has shown as much fascination with the topic of madness as British composer Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016).
    [Show full text]