The World Was Once All Miracle

Name: The World Was Once All Miracle
Brand: Schott Music
SKU: 805020
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text by Anthony Burgess

for solo baritone and orchestra

Edition: Performance material

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Before Anthony Burgess the novelist, there was Anthony Burgess the composer. It was this latter version of the Mancunian that Raymond Yiu first encountered via his This Man and Music, in which he talked about his own compositions. With this unique pathway into the world of Burgess and the resonance of autodidacticism, Yiu investigated and made use of Burgess’ musical materials and thoughts on music into shaping this cycle of six songs for baritone and orchestra. The texts are poems, or fragments of them, by Burgess circling around the three subjects that were close to the writer’s heart - words, music and the conflict between good and evil were the three subjects close to the writer’s heart.

Orchestral Cast

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Title:

The World Was Once All Miracle

text by Anthony Burgess

for solo baritone and orchestra

Edition:

Performance material

Awards:

Jan 1, 2018

Royal Philharmonic Society Awards 2018 nomination

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

2016 - 2017

Duration:

23 ′0 ′′

World Premiere:

July 4, 2017 · Manchester (UK)
Bridgewater Hall
Manchester International Festival 2017
Roderick Williams, baritone · Conductor: Michael Francis · BBC Philharmonic

Commissioned work :

Commissioned by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth

Keywords:

#concerto #baritone