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The Ice Break - Suite
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
arr. by Meirion Bowen
flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Edition: Performance material
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Description
Splintered and rich in reference as Tippett’s operas are in their music and in their text, they carry at their heart a glowing confidence in the power of
human beings to find a centre and, from that centre, to sing. In The Ice Break that confidence has a global reach. The settings are anonymous: an airport
lounge, a hospital, the street. For the first time since The Midsummer Marriage, Tippett uses a chorus, here to represent the mass of humanity, whose divisions are pointed in the central cast: divisions between generations, between sexes, between races, between exile and native. Lev arrives in a new world to join his wife Nadia, who had emigrated with their baby son, Yuri. Also at the airport are Yuri’s girlfriend Gayle and her friend Hannah, there to meet the black ‘champion’, Olympion together with his fans. Out of a series of violent tensions, individual and collective, there develops a riot in which Olympion and Gayle are killed and Yuri is near-fatally wounded. Nadia dies peacefully. During an interlude in which a group attempts a psychadelic ‘trip’, the messenger, Astron, is mistaken for God – a claim he dismisses ironically. Yuri is operated on by Luke, a young doctor, and, released from the cracking plaster, he finds reconciliation with his father.
(Paul Griffiths)
Orchestral Cast
fl(pic, football rattle, clav, sleighbells).cl(bcl).vn.vc.pno(wdbl)
Content
I Prelude - At the airport
II Olympion's arrival
III Hannah reflects
IV Conflict
V Nadia's Dream of Childhood and Death
VI Yuri's recovery
II Olympion's arrival
III Hannah reflects
IV Conflict
V Nadia's Dream of Childhood and Death
VI Yuri's recovery
More Information
Title:
The Ice Break - Suite
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
arr. by Meirion Bowen
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1996
Duration:
18 ′
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the chamber ensemble Cantamen with help from Mike Thorne and Leila Shakkour
Technical Details
Product number:
LSL 4036-02
Performances
The Ice Break - Suite
'Sounds New Festival'
Orchestra: Mobius Ensemble
March 6, 1999 |
Canterbury (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Gulbenkian Theatre
The Ice Break - Suite
Prom and Virgin Classics Record
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta
July 23, 1990 |
London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Royal Albert Hall
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