The Sorcerer's Mirror

Name: The Sorcerer's Mirror
Brand: Schott Music Ltd., London
SKU: 252096
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for SATB chorus and orchestra

text by Andrew Motion

SATB choir and orchestra

Edition: Performance material

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Climate change is a subject that has been close to the heart of Peter Maxwell Davies for many years; indeed he was one of the first composers to travel to the Antarctic in 1999 to understand for himself its implications. Max has written many works since inspired by the topic, including Last Door of Light for chamber orchestra. This work for choir and orchestra is a setting of a poem by Andrew Motion which, behind the quiet stillness of a North London
garden at night, reflects the poet’s fears for the future of life as we know it. The composer’s constant use of unsettling harmony conveys the sense of unease and imminent catastrophe.

Orchestral Cast

2.2.2(Acl).2.cbsn-4.2.3.0-timp-str

Content

I Moderato "Midnight and midsummer in London"
II Moderato "I see what I hear"
III Adagio "After that breath a pause"
IV Allegro "Here comes the rain"
V Moderato "Then the storm passes"

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Title:

The Sorcerer's Mirror

for SATB chorus and orchestra

text by Andrew Motion

Language:

English

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music Ltd., London

Year of composition:

2009

Opus:

op. 300

Duration:

15 ′

World Premiere:

June 13, 2009 · Cambridge (UK)
King's College Chapel
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury · Cambridge University Music Society Orchestra · Cambridge University Choir

Commissioned work :

Commissioned by Cambridge University Musical Society to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Cambridge University, partially funded by British Antarctic Survey.