Viduals Reflect, Izens O Act

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Viduals Reflect, Izens O Act Oct_TSO_fpg_TFS1828_Gabriel.qxp 2018-09-0711:00AMPage2 wh Ind B i l I i wh n N citizens g u T N a C E l o O · U p o R i e B V n L N W i h E I o A o N r u M v l T S d A e r I B S o R O c n E h o Y N iduals o v R o 1 eflec A l 5 S · · E L c C n ac o o D - I V v e E d I 2 I T 1 · N S · a I O g n I T e o O I v N 2 S 2 N t t 9 o T A g r R . a d Y e 1 2 t , S T E E F T H S E I R . S C T O R A I E S 98174 / TFS – Canada’s International School docket / client APPROVED BY TSO House Programme publication November Edition insertion date Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 8:00pm at 2018 10, November Saturday, 8:00pm at 8, November 2018 Thursday, Russell Braun’s appearance is generouslyRussell supported Braun’s by The November 8performance is generously supported by intermission. an performed without be will concert This VI. Libera me AgnusV. Dei IV. Sanctus III. Offertorium II. Dies irae I. Requiem aeternam Requiem,War Benjamin Britten Chorus Children’s Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Toronto Russell Braun Spence Toby Pavlovskaya Tatiana Bramwell Tovey Sir Andrew Davis, Interim ArtisticSir Andrew Davis, Interim Director To Full Page = 6.5'' x 9.5" ad size 4C process magazine quality colour ronto Symphony Orchestra Symphony ronto TFS-18-29 ad number Friday September 7, 2018 file released , tenor , baritone Op. 66 , conductor , soprano Earlaine Collins Blake and Belinda Goldring and Blake . 9 NOVEMBER 8 & 10, 2018 ABOUT THE WORKS Benjamin Britten (Lord Britten of Aldeburgh) War Requiem, Op. 66 Born: Lowestoft, England, November 22, 1913 82 Died: Aldeburgh, England, December 4, 1976 min Composed: 1961 The première took place in Coventry the same causes that concerned Britten: peace Cathedral, England, on May 30, 1962, with the and brotherhood. conducting duties shared by the composer The boldness and ingenuity of the War and Meredith Davies. The medieval cathedral Requiem continue through the nature and in Coventry had been heavily damaged by layout of the performing forces. Britten calls bombing during the Second World War. Britten for three separate groups—soprano solo, agreed to compose a choral work for the mixed chorus, and full orchestra to perform arts festival celebrating its reconstruction. the Mass texts; chamber orchestra, and tenor He decided it would involve the text of the and baritone solos, representing an English traditional Latin Mass for the Dead. But since and a German soldier, respectively, for the he wished to relate it specifically to the tragedy Owen poems; and a boys’ chorus (in this of war, he sought out other words, to comment case a mixed children’s chorus) with organ, upon and intensify the Mass text. The poetry offering disembodied commentary on the of Wilfred Owen, the most gifted English poet proceedings. of the First World War era, provided precisely what Britten needed. In a further gesture toward universality and post-war reconciliation, he conceived the “I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject music with three specific vocal soloists in is War, and the pity of War,” Owen had written. mind: English tenor Peter Pears, German “The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are baritone Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, and Russian to this generation in no sense consolatory. soprano Galina Vishnevskaya (a distinction They may be to the next. All a poet can do that will be mirrored in the linguistic today is warn. That is why the true Poets must heritages of the three soloists in these TSO be truthful.” performances of the work). Owen died in action, aged 25, one week before The first section, Requiem aeternam (Eternal the WWI Armistice of which this year marks the Rest), opens as a slow, anguished funeral 100th anniversary. His poems, as they appear procession. Britten quickly establishes the on the score of Britten’s War Requiem, help differences in tone that characterize the make Britten’s piece a strong candidate for performing groups. The soprano, mixed the most eloquent and moving of all anti-war chorus, and children’s chorus, singing in Latin, compositions. It uses Owen’s poems to plead operate on a formal level. The tenor soloist 10 TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA then addresses listeners face to face, walking The first half of the Sanctus develops as a the ground and breathing the air of our own glorious paean to God. The second half is a planet, in our own time, in the words of the heartrending baritone solo, Owen’s sonnet Owen sonnet “Anthem for Doomed Youth”. “The End”, stressing the cold finality of death. Britten then offers a degree of consolation, The opening fanfares of the Dies irae (Day albeit ambivalent, in Agnus Dei (Lamb of of Wrath) section grow more insistent God), with the tenor soloist, in the words and menacing, as the Day of Judgment is of Owen’s “At a Calvary Near the Ancre”, announced. The baritone soloist offers a drawing comparisons between the spirit of quieter but equally unsettling portrait of self-sacrifice represented by Christ and that of soldiers waiting to be called into battle. those who have died in war. Soprano and semichorus ask for guidance, followed by another Owen sonnet, “The Next The final section, Libera me (Deliver Me), War”, a duet between tenor and baritone. With begins with a funeral march recalling the chilling, satiric heartiness, they sing of the War Requiem’s opening pages, building to a false bravado that soldiers of all nations have catastrophic climax. This is followed by the text forced upon them by their superior officers. of Owen’s “Strange Meeting”, in which tenor The chorus then performs an increasingly and baritone are left in some timeless, distant fervid apostrophe to Christ for salvation. This location where earthly suffering no longer flows into the baritone’s account of a piece has meaning. Differences have no place here, of heavy artillery being wheeled into battle, only mutual understanding and tenderness. here symbolizing all weaponry, past, present, Their words are addressed not only to each and future. The Dies irae returns in all its fury, other but to all. “I am the enemy you killed, my counterpointed by the tenor’s plea (Owen’s friend.” Britten accompanies them sparely but “Futility”) to move a dying soldier into the sun. with great colouristic resource. Offertorium begins with the children’s chorus’s The work concludes with all three groups call for the deliverance of the faithful from the performing together for the only time, offering sufferings of hell. The mixed chorus then sings a final benediction. Britten gives the closing a rhythmically buoyant introduction to Owen’s words to the chorus, unaccompanied: “May “The Parable of the Old Man and the Young”, a they rest in peace. Amen.” bitterly ironic retelling, by baritone and tenor, Program note by Don Anderson of the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac. TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS The text of War Requiem that follows is by Benjamin Britten himself, including the translations to English of sections from the Latin Mass. Texts of Wilfred Owen’s poetry are from the 1931 Complete Poems of Wilfred Owen (ed. Edmund Blunden) as transcribed, and in some cases altered or abridged, by the composer. NOVEMBER 8 & 10, 2018 11 TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS I. Requiem aeternam Chorus Chorus Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine; Lord, grant them eternal rest; et lux perpetua luceat eis. and let the perpetual light shine upon them. Children’s Chorus Children’s Chorus Te decet hymnus, Deus in Sion: Thou shalt have praise in Zion, of God: et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem; and homage shall be paid to thee in Jerusalem; exaudi orationem meam, hear my prayer, ad te omnis caro veniet. all flesh shall come before Thee. Chorus Chorus Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine; Lord, grant them eternal rest; et lux perpetua luceat eis. and let the perpetual light shine upon them. Tenor What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,— The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of silent minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. Chorus Chorus Kyrie eleison Lord, have mercy upon them Christe eleison Christ, have mercy upon them Kyrie eleison Lord, have mercy upon them II. Dies irae Chorus Chorus Dies irae, dies illa, This day, this day of wrath Solvet saeclum in favilla: Shall consume the world in ashes, Teste David cum Sibylla. As foretold by David and Sibyl. Quantus tremor est futurus, What trembling there shall be Quando Judex est venturus, When the judge shall come Cuncta stricte discussurus! To weigh everything strictly. Tuba mirum spargens sonum The trumpet, scattering its awful sound 12 TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Per sepulchra regionum Across the graves of all lands Coget omnes ante thronum.
Recommended publications
  • UNITEL PROUDLY REPRESENTS the INTERNATIONAL TV DISTRIBUTION of Browse Through the Complete Unitel Catalogue of More Than 2,000 Titles At
    UNITEL PROUDLY REPRESENTS THE INTERNATIONAL TV DISTRIBUTION OF Browse through the complete Unitel catalogue of more than 2,000 titles at www.unitel.de Date: March 2018 FOR CO-PRODUCTION & PRESALES INQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT: Unitel GmbH & Co. KG Gruenwalder Weg 28D · 82041 Oberhaching/Munich, Germany Tel: +49.89.673469-613 · Fax: +49.89.673469-610 · [email protected] Ernst Buchrucker Dr. Thomas Hieber Dr. Magdalena Herbst Managing Director Head of Business and Legal Affairs Head of Production [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Tel: +49.89.673469-19 Tel: +49.89.673469-611 Tel: +49.89.673469-862 WORLD SALES C Major Entertainment GmbH Meerscheidtstr. 8 · 14057 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49.30.303064-64 · [email protected] Elmar Kruse Niklas Arens Nishrin Schacherbauer Managing Director Sales Manager, Director Sales Sales Manager [email protected] & Marketing [email protected] [email protected] Nadja Joost Ira Rost Sales Manager, Director Live Events Sales Manager, Assistant to & Popular Music Managing Director [email protected] [email protected] CONTENT BRITTEN: GLORIANA Susan Bullock/Toby Spence/Kate Royal/Peter Coleman-Wright Conducted by: Paul Daniel OPERAS 3 Staged by: Richard Jones BALLETS 8 Cat. No. A02050015 | Length: 164' | Year: 2016 DONIZETTI: LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT Natalie Dessay/Juan Diego Flórez/Felicity Palmer Conducted by: Bruno Campanella Staged by: Laurent Pelly Cat. No. A02050065 | Length: 131' | Year: 2016 OPERAS BELLINI: NORMA Sonya Yoncheva/Joseph Calleja/Sonia Ganassi/ Brindley Sherratt/La Fura dels Baus Conducted by: Antonio Pappano Staged by: Àlex Ollé Cat.
    [Show full text]
  • For All the Attention Paid to the Striking Passage of Thirty-Four
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Humanities Commons for Jane, on our thirty-fourth Accents of Remorse The good has never been perfect. There is always some flaw in it, some defect. First Sightings For all the attention paid to the “interview” scene in Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd, its musical depths have proved remarkably resistant to analysis and have remained unplumbed. This striking passage of thirty-four whole-note chords has probably attracted more comment than any other in the opera since Andrew Porter first spotted shortly after the 1951 premiere that all the chords harmonize members of the F major triad, leading to much discussion over whether or not the passage is “in F major.” 1 Beyond Porter’s perception, the structure was far from obvious, perhaps in some way unprecedented, and has remained mysterious. Indeed, it is the undisputed gnomic power of its strangeness that attracted (and still attracts) most comment. Arnold Whittall has shown that no functional harmonic or contrapuntal explanation of the passage is satisfactory, and proceeded from there to make the interesting assertion that that was the point: The “creative indecision”2 that characterizes the music of the opera was meant to confront the listener with the same sort of difficulty as the layers of irony in Herman Melville’s “inside narrative,” on which the opera is based. To quote a single sentence of the original story that itself contains several layers of ironic ambiguity, a sentence thought by some—I believe mistakenly—to say that Vere felt no remorse: 1.
    [Show full text]
  • Cds by Composer/Performer
    CPCC MUSIC LIBRARY COMPACT DISCS Updated May 2007 Abercrombie, John (Furs on Ice and 9 other selections) guitar, bass, & synthesizer 1033 Academy for Ancient Music Berlin Works of Telemann, Blavet Geminiani 1226 Adams, John Short Ride, Chairman Dances, Harmonium (Andriessen) 876, 876A Adventures of Baron Munchausen (music composed and conducted by Michael Kamen) 1244 Adderley, Cannonball Somethin’ Else (Autumn Leaves; Love For Sale; Somethin’ Else; One for Daddy-O; Dancing in the Dark; Alison’s Uncle 1538 Aebersold, Jamey: Favorite Standards (vol 22) 1279 pt. 1 Aebersold, Jamey: Favorite Standards (vol 22) 1279 pt. 2 Aebersold, Jamey: Gettin’ It Together (vol 21) 1272 pt. 1 Aebersold, Jamey: Gettin’ It Together (vol 21) 1272 pt. 2 Aebersold, Jamey: Jazz Improvisation (vol 1) 1270 Aebersold, Jamey: Major and Minor (vol 24) 1281 pt. 1 Aebersold, Jamey: Major and Minor (vol 24) 1281 pt. 2 Aebersold, Jamey: One Dozen Standards (vol 23) 1280 pt. 1 Aebersold, Jamey: One Dozen Standards (vol 23) 1280 pt. 2 Aebersold, Jamey: The II-V7-1 Progression (vol 3) 1271 Aerosmith Get a Grip 1402 Airs d’Operettes Misc. arias (Barbara Hendricks; Philharmonia Orch./Foster) 928 Airwaves: Heritage of America Band, U.S. Air Force/Captain Larry H. Lang, cond. 1698 Albeniz, Echoes of Spain: Suite Espanola, Op.47 and misc. pieces (John Williams, guitar) 962 Albinoni, Tomaso (also Pachelbel, Vivaldi, Bach, Purcell) 1212 Albinoni, Tomaso Adagio in G Minor (also Pachelbel: Canon; Zipoli: Elevazione for Cello, Oboe; Gluck: Dance of the Furies, Dance of the Blessed Spirits, Interlude; Boyce: Symphony No. 4 in F Major; Purcell: The Indian Queen- Trumpet Overture)(Consort of London; R,Clark) 1569 Albinoni, Tomaso Concerto Pour 2 Trompettes in C; Concerto in C (Lionel Andre, trumpet) (also works by Tartini; Vivaldi; Maurice André, trumpet) 1520 Alderete, Ignacio: Harpe indienne et orgue 1019 Aloft: Heritage of America Band (United States Air Force/Captain Larry H.
    [Show full text]
  • Benjamin Britten: a Catalogue of the Orchestral Music
    BENJAMIN BRITTEN: A CATALOGUE OF THE ORCHESTRAL MUSIC 1928: “Quatre Chansons Francaises” for soprano and orchestra: 13 minutes 1930: Two Portraits for string orchestra: 15 minutes 1931: Two Psalms for chorus and orchestra Ballet “Plymouth Town” for small orchestra: 27 minutes 1932: Sinfonietta, op.1: 14 minutes Double Concerto in B minor for Violin, Viola and Orchestra: 21 minutes (unfinished) 1934: “Simple Symphony” for strings, op.4: 14 minutes 1936: “Our Hunting Fathers” for soprano or tenor and orchestra, op. 8: 29 minutes “Soirees musicales” for orchestra, op.9: 11 minutes 1937: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge for string orchestra, op. 10: 27 minutes “Mont Juic” for orchestra, op.12: 11 minutes (with Sir Lennox Berkeley) “The Company of Heaven” for two speakers, soprano, tenor, chorus, timpani, organ and string orchestra: 49 minutes 1938/45: Piano Concerto in D major, op. 13: 34 minutes 1939: “Ballad of Heroes” for soprano or tenor, chorus and orchestra, op.14: 17 minutes 1939/58: Violin Concerto, op. 15: 34 minutes 1939: “Young Apollo” for Piano and strings, op. 16: 7 minutes (withdrawn) “Les Illuminations” for soprano or tenor and strings, op.18: 22 minutes 1939-40: Overture “Canadian Carnival”, op.19: 14 minutes 1940: “Sinfonia da Requiem”, op.20: 21 minutes 1940/54: Diversions for Piano(Left Hand) and orchestra, op.21: 23 minutes 1941: “Matinees musicales” for orchestra, op. 24: 13 minutes “Scottish Ballad” for Two Pianos and Orchestra, op. 26: 15 minutes “An American Overture”, op. 27: 10 minutes 1943: Prelude and Fugue for eighteen solo strings, op. 29: 8 minutes Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op.
    [Show full text]
  • 5099943343256.Pdf
    Benjamin Britten 1913 –1976 Winter Words Op.52 (Hardy ) 1 At Day-close in November 1.33 2 Midnight on the Great Western (or The Journeying Boy) 4.35 3 Wagtail and Baby (A Satire) 1.59 4 The Little Old Table 1.21 5 The Choirmaster’s Burial (or The Tenor Man’s Story) 3.59 6 Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales) 1.00 7 At the Railway Station, Upway (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin) 2.51 8 Before Life and After 3.15 Michelangelo Sonnets Op.22 9 Sonnet XVI: Si come nella penna e nell’inchiostro 1.49 10 Sonnet XXXI: A che piu debb’io mai l’intensa voglia 1.21 11 Sonnet XXX: Veggio co’ bei vostri occhi un dolce lume 3.18 12 Sonnet LV: Tu sa’ ch’io so, signior mie, che tu sai 1.40 13 Sonnet XXXVIII: Rendete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume 1.58 14 Sonnet XXXII: S’un casto amor, s’una pieta superna 1.22 15 Sonnet XXIV: Spirto ben nato, in cui so specchia e vede 4.26 Six Hölderlin Fragments Op.61 16 Menschenbeifall 1.26 17 Die Heimat 2.02 18 Sokrates und Alcibiades 1.55 19 Die Jugend 1.51 20 Hälfte des Lebens 2.23 21 Die Linien des Lebens 2.56 2 Who are these Children? Op.84 (Soutar ) (Four English Songs) 22 No.3 Nightmare 2.52 23 No.6 Slaughter 1.43 24 No.9 Who are these Children? 2.12 25 No.
    [Show full text]
  • The Musical Partnership of Sergei Prokofiev And
    THE MUSICAL PARTNERSHIP OF SERGEI PROKOFIEV AND MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH A CREATIVE PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE DEGREE MASTER OF MUSIC IN PERFORMANCE BY JIHYE KIM DR. PETER OPIE - ADVISOR BALL STATE UNIVERSITY MUNCIE, INDIANA DECEMBER 2011 Among twentieth-century composers, Sergei Prokofiev is widely considered to be one of the most popular and important figures. He wrote in a variety of genres, including opera, ballet, symphonies, concertos, solo piano, and chamber music. In his cello works, of which three are the most important, his partnership with the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was crucial. To understand their partnership, it is necessary to know their background information, including biographies, and to understand the political environment in which they lived. Sergei Prokofiev was born in Sontovka, (Ukraine) on April 23, 1891, and grew up in comfortable conditions. His father organized his general education in the natural sciences, and his mother gave him his early education in the arts. When he was four years old, his mother provided his first piano lessons and he began composition study as well. He studied theory, composition, instrumentation, and piano with Reinhold Glière, who was also a composer and pianist. Glière asked Prokofiev to compose short pieces made into the structure of a series.1 According to Glière’s suggestion, Prokofiev wrote a lot of short piano pieces, including five series each of 12 pieces (1902-1906). He also composed a symphony in G major for Glière. When he was twelve years old, he met Glazunov, who was a professor at the St.
    [Show full text]
  • A Culture of Recording: Christopher Raeburn and the Decca Record Company
    A Culture of Recording: Christopher Raeburn and the Decca Record Company Sally Elizabeth Drew A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts and Humanities Department of Music This work was supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council September 2018 1 2 Abstract This thesis examines the working culture of the Decca Record Company, and how group interaction and individual agency have made an impact on the production of music recordings. Founded in London in 1929, Decca built a global reputation as a pioneer of sound recording with access to the world’s leading musicians. With its roots in manufacturing and experimental wartime engineering, the company developed a peerless classical music catalogue that showcased technological innovation alongside artistic accomplishment. This investigation focuses specifically on the contribution of the recording producer at Decca in creating this legacy, as can be illustrated by the career of Christopher Raeburn, the company’s most prolific producer and specialist in opera and vocal repertoire. It is the first study to examine Raeburn’s archive, and is supported with unpublished memoirs, private papers and recorded interviews with colleagues, collaborators and artists. Using these sources, the thesis considers the history and functions of the staff producer within Decca’s wider operational structure in parallel with the personal aspirations of the individual in exerting control, choice and authority on the process and product of recording. Having been recruited to Decca by John Culshaw in 1957, Raeburn’s fifty-year career spanned seminal moments of the company’s artistic and commercial lifecycle: from assisting in exploiting the dramatic potential of stereo technology in Culshaw’s Ring during the 1960s to his serving as audio producer for the 1990 The Three Tenors Concert international phenomenon.
    [Show full text]
  • Britten Connections a Guide for Performers and Programmers
    Britten Connections A guide for performers and programmers by Paul Kildea Britten –Pears Foundation Telephone 01728 451 700 The Red House, Golf Lane, [email protected] Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5PZ www.brittenpears.org Britten Connections A guide for performers and programmers by Paul Kildea Contents The twentieth century’s Programming tips for 03 consummate musician 07 13 selected Britten works Britten connected 20 26 Timeline CD sampler tracks The Britten-Pears Foundation is grateful to Orchestra, Naxos, Nimbus Records, NMC the following for permission to use the Recordings, Onyx Classics. EMI recordings recordings featured on the CD sampler: BBC, are licensed courtesy of EMI Classics, Decca Classics, EMI Classics, Hyperion Records, www.emiclassics.com For full track details, 28 Lammas Records, London Philharmonic and all label websites, see pages 26-27. Index of featured works Front cover : Britten in 1938. Photo: Howard Coster © National Portrait Gallery, London. Above: Britten in his composition studio at The Red House, c1958. Photo: Kurt Hutton . 29 Further information Opposite left : Conducting a rehearsal, early 1950s. Opposite right : Demonstrating how to make 'slung mugs' sound like raindrops for Noye's Fludde , 1958. Photo: Kurt Hutton. Britten Connections A guide for performers and programmers 03 The twentieth century's consummate musician In his tweed jackets and woollen ties, and When asked as a boy what he planned to be He had, of course, a great guide and mentor. with his plummy accent, country houses and when he grew up, Britten confidently The English composer Frank Bridge began royal connections, Benjamin Britten looked replied: ‘A composer.’ ‘But what else ?’ was the teaching composition to the teenage Britten every inch the English gentleman.
    [Show full text]
  • Messe E-Moll WAB 27 Zweite Fassung/Second Version 1882
    Anton BRUCKNER Messe e-Moll WAB 27 Zweite Fassung/Second version 1882 Coro (SSAATTBB) 2 Oboi, 2 Clarinetti, 2 Fagotti, 4 Corni, 2 Trombe, 3 Tromboni herausgegeben von/edited by Dagmar Glüxam Urtext Partitur/Full score C Carus 27.093 Inhalt / Contents Vorwort 4 Foreword 8 Abbildungen 12 Kyrie (Coro SSAATTBB) 14 Gloria (Coro) 20 Credo (Coro) 32 Sanctus (Coro) 49 Benedictus (Coro SSATTBB) 55 Agnus Dei (Coro SSAATTBB) 63 Kritischer Bericht 73 Zu diesem Werk liegt folgendes Aufführungsmaterial vor: Partitur (Carus 27.093), Klavierauszug (Carus 27.093/03), Klavierauszug XL Großdruck (Carus 27.093/04), Chorpartitur (Carus 27.093/05), komplettes Orchestermaterial (Carus 27.093/19). The following performance material is available: full score (Carus 27.093), vocal score (Carus 27.093/03), vocal score XL in larger print (Carus 27.093/04), choral score (Carus 27.093/05), complete orchestral material (Carus 27.093/19). Carus 27.093 3 Vorwort Als Anton Bruckner (1824–1896) zwischen August und November C-Dur (WAB 31) für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor a cappella 1866 seine Messe in e-Moll (WAB 27) komponierte, konnte er (1. Fassung 1835–1843, 2. Fassung 1891) oder der Windhaager bereits eine langjährige Erfahrung als Kirchenmusiker aufweisen und Messe in C-Dur für Alt, zwei Hörner und Orgel (WAB 25; 1842) auch auf ein überaus umfangreiches kirchenmusikalisches Œuvre können hier etwa die Messe ohne Gloria in d-Moll („Kronstorfer zurückblicken.1 Schon als Kind wurde er durch seinen musikbe- Messe“; WAB 146, 1844) für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor a geisterten Vater und Schullehrer Anton Bruckner (1791–1837) zur cappella oder das Requiem für vierstimmigen Männerchor und Mitwirkung – u.
    [Show full text]
  • That to See How Britten Handles the Dramatic and Musical Materials In
    BOOKS 131 that to see how Britten handles the dramatic and musical materials in the op- era is "to discover anew how from private pain the great artist can fashion some- thing that transcends his own individual experience and touches all humanity." Given the audience to which it is directed, the book succeeds superbly. Much of it is challenging and stimulating intellectually, while avoiding exces- sive weightiness, and at the same time, it is entertaining in the very best sense of the word. Its format being what it is, there are inevitable duplications of information, and I personally found the Garbutt and Garvie articles less com- pelling than the remainder of the book. The last two articles of Brett's, excel- lent as they are, also tend to be a little discursive, but these are minor reserva- tions. For anyone who cares for this masterwork of twentieth-century opera, Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/oq/article/4/3/131/1587210 by guest on 01 October 2021 or for Britten and his music, this book is obligatory reading. Carlisle Floyd Peter Grimes/Gloriana Benjamin Britten English National Opera/Royal Opera Guide 24 Nicholas John, series editor London: John Calder; New York: Riverrun Press, 1983 128 pages, $5.95 (paper) The English National Opera/Royal Opera Guides, small paperbacks with siz- able contents, are among the best introductions available to the thirty-plus operas published in the series so far. Each guide includes some essays by ac- knowledged authorities on various aspects of its subject, followed by a table of major musical themes, a complete libretto (original language plus transla- tion), a brief bibliography, and a discography.
    [Show full text]
  • Omega Auctions Ltd Catalogue 28 Apr 2020
    Omega Auctions Ltd Catalogue 28 Apr 2020 1 REGA PLANAR 3 TURNTABLE. A Rega Planar 3 8 ASSORTED INDIE/PUNK MEMORABILIA. turntable with Pro-Ject Phono box. £200.00 - Approximately 140 items to include: a Morrissey £300.00 Suedehead cassette tape (TCPOP 1618), a ticket 2 TECHNICS. Five items to include a Technics for Joe Strummer & Mescaleros at M.E.N. in Graphic Equalizer SH-8038, a Technics Stereo 2000, The Beta Band The Three E.P.'s set of 3 Cassette Deck RS-BX707, a Technics CD Player symbol window stickers, Lou Reed Fan Club SL-PG500A CD Player, a Columbia phonograph promotional sticker, Rock 'N' Roll Comics: R.E.M., player and a Sharp CP-304 speaker. £50.00 - Freak Brothers comic, a Mercenary Skank 1982 £80.00 A4 poster, a set of Kevin Cummins Archive 1: Liverpool postcards, some promo photographs to 3 ROKSAN XERXES TURNTABLE. A Roksan include: The Wedding Present, Teenage Fanclub, Xerxes turntable with Artemis tonearm. Includes The Grids, Flaming Lips, Lemonheads, all composite parts as issued, in original Therapy?The Wildhearts, The Playn Jayn, Ween, packaging and box. £500.00 - £800.00 72 repro Stone Roses/Inspiral Carpets 4 TECHNICS SU-8099K. A Technics Stereo photographs, a Global Underground promo pack Integrated Amplifier with cables. From the (luggage tag, sweets, soap, keyring bottle opener collection of former 10CC manager and music etc.), a Michael Jackson standee, a Universal industry veteran Ric Dixon - this is possibly a Studios Bates Motel promo shower cap, a prototype or one off model, with no information on Radiohead 'Meeting People Is Easy 10 Min Clip this specific serial number available.
    [Show full text]
  • Intertextuality, Intermediality and Mediality in Benjamin Britten's
    Intertextuality, Intermediality and Mediality in Benjamin Britten’s Nocturne, Op. 60 Von der Falkutät für Geistes- und Erziehungswissenschaften der Technischen Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig zur Erlangung des Grades Doktor der Philosophie (Dr. phil.) genehmigte Dissertation von Kenton Emery Barnes aus Toledo, Ohio, USA Eingereicht am 11.06.2012 Mündliche Prüfung am 28.08.2012 Referent: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Heinze Korreferent: Prof. Dr. Hero Janßen Druckjahr 2017 Intertextualität, Intermedialität und Medialität in Benjamin Brittens Nocturne, Op. 60 Benjamin Britten ist nicht nur einer der am meisten verehrten Komponisten Großbritanniens, sondern zugleich auch einer der Komponisten, über die äußerst kontrovers diskutiert wird. Kritiker bewerten seine Musik auf sehr unterschiedliche Art und Weise. Einige halten seine Musik für zu altmodisch und zu sehr den Traditionen der Tonalität verbunden, andere bewerten sie als zu modern und schwer zugänglich, an Atonalität grenzend. Aber wie soll man Brittens Musik betrachten? Setzt sie die Traditionen der romantischen Komponisten des 19. Jahrhunderts fort? Ja, dies ist der Fall, jedoch bringt Britten diese Konventionen an ihre Grenzen. Ist Brittens Musik atonal? Obwohl manche Kritiker der Ansicht sind, dass seine Kompositionen abstrakt sind, bleibt er den etablierten Konventionen der Musik doch treu. Nicht zu bestreiten ist, dass Brittens gesangliche Kompositionen in ihrer Poesie nur schwer zu übertreffen sind. Er vertonte Gedichte von bedeutenden Dichtern wie Arthur Rimbaud, Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, Henry Longfellow, William Shakespare, Edith Sitwell, Emily Brontë und William Blake. Alles in allem vertonte Britten mehr als 300 Gedichte von nicht weniger als neunzig Dichtern. Die vorliegende Arbeit Intertextualität, Intermedialität und Medialität in Benjamin Brittens Nocturne, Op.
    [Show full text]