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This Silence
for eight players
clarinette, cor, basson et quintette à cordes
Edition: Matériel d'exécution
Détails du produit
Description
This Silence was written between July and August 1992 (revised June 1993) and is scored for clarinet, horn, bassoon and string quintet. lt was commissioned by the Cologne Philharmonie for the Scharoun Ensemble. lt lasts around fifteen minutes and is dedicated to my great friends Sandy and Jimmy Brown.
The work is in two contrasting movements. The first (Dance) starts slowly and builds into a manic fast movement featuring the horn. The initial impetus for the music came from a poem entitled ‘Death of a Son‘ by Jon Silkin, which includes the line ‘But this was silence‘ from which I took the title.
The second movement (Dirge) starts with a non-vocal setting of the opening stanza ofthe poem ‘The Exequy‘ by Henry King and proceeds to weave meditative variations around a simple melodic fragment. After a short autburst towards the end (harking back to the manic music of the first movement) the work dies away to a peaceful conclusion.
I am very grateful to the Sharoun Ensemble for playing through This Silence in June 1992, after which I revised the score extensively, and to Brett Dean, who conducted the run-through and gave me great help and encouragement. The Scharoun Ensemble gave the first performance at the Cologne Philharmonie on 12 September 1993.
- Mark-Anthony Turnage
The work is in two contrasting movements. The first (Dance) starts slowly and builds into a manic fast movement featuring the horn. The initial impetus for the music came from a poem entitled ‘Death of a Son‘ by Jon Silkin, which includes the line ‘But this was silence‘ from which I took the title.
The second movement (Dirge) starts with a non-vocal setting of the opening stanza ofthe poem ‘The Exequy‘ by Henry King and proceeds to weave meditative variations around a simple melodic fragment. After a short autburst towards the end (harking back to the manic music of the first movement) the work dies away to a peaceful conclusion.
I am very grateful to the Sharoun Ensemble for playing through This Silence in June 1992, after which I revised the score extensively, and to Brett Dean, who conducted the run-through and gave me great help and encouragement. The Scharoun Ensemble gave the first performance at the Cologne Philharmonie on 12 September 1993.
- Mark-Anthony Turnage
Contenu
I Dance
II Dirge
II Dirge
Plus d'infos
Titre:
This Silence
for eight players
Edition:
Matériel d'exécution
Maison d'édition:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1992 - 1993
Durée:
15 ′0 ′′
Première:
13 septembre 1993 · Köln (D)
Kölner Philharmonie
Scharoun Ensemble
Kölner Philharmonie
Scharoun Ensemble
Travaux commandés :
Commissioned by Philharmonic Hall Cologne for the Scharoun Ensemble
Détails techniques
Type de support:
Matériel en location / d'exécution
Numéro du produit:
LSL 4104-01
Fabricant:
représentations
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