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The Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli is regarded by many as Michael Tippett’s most perfect work. Tippett took as his starting point Corelli’s Concerto Grosso Op. 6, and describes the Corellia adagio as ‘dark and passionate’ and the ensuing vivace as exploring the brilliance of the violin. The music 'passes to and from between the dark and the light'. It also belongs in formal construction to the Purcell viol fantasies, a sequence of discrete sections of widely contrasted moods, each emerging from each other and building up to a convincing shape, but without the repeats and recapitulations of later music.
'Its radiant climax and the quiet Pastorale that follows are among Tippett’s most inspired pages. This work is Tippett’s mature complement to the Concerto for Double String Orchestra; it is the more complex statement of a composer who in the fifteen years since the Concerto had gained much in wisdom but lost nothing of his gift of lyric spontaneity.' (David Matthews, Michael Tippett: An introductory Study. Faber & Faber)
Fantasia Concertante was famously used as the soundtrack to the 1974 film ‘Akenfield’ by Peter Hall about rural life in Suffolk in the time between the wars: both capture an ecstatic love of timeless beauty.
'Its radiant climax and the quiet Pastorale that follows are among Tippett’s most inspired pages. This work is Tippett’s mature complement to the Concerto for Double String Orchestra; it is the more complex statement of a composer who in the fifteen years since the Concerto had gained much in wisdom but lost nothing of his gift of lyric spontaneity.' (David Matthews, Michael Tippett: An introductory Study. Faber & Faber)
Fantasia Concertante was famously used as the soundtrack to the 1974 film ‘Akenfield’ by Peter Hall about rural life in Suffolk in the time between the wars: both capture an ecstatic love of timeless beauty.
Orchestral Cast
Concertino: str(1.1.0.1.0)
Concerto Grosso: (2.2.1.2.1 minimum)
Concerto Terzo (2.2.1.2.1 minimum)
Concerto Grosso: (2.2.1.2.1 minimum)
Concerto Terzo (2.2.1.2.1 minimum)
More Information
Title:
Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli
for string orchestra
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1953
Duration:
16 ′0 ′′
World Premiere:
August 29, 1953 · Edinburgh (UK)
Usher Hall
Edinburgh Festival 1953
Conductor: Michael Tippett · BBC Symphony Orchestra
Usher Hall
Edinburgh Festival 1953
Conductor: Michael Tippett · BBC Symphony Orchestra
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the Edinburgh Festival
Technical Details
Media Type:
Hire/performance material
Product number:
LSL 4018-01
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