Harriet Mackenzie, BBC National Orchestra of Wales feat. William Boughton - Maw: Orchestral Works (2020)
Harriet Mackenzie, BBC National Orchestra of Wales feat. William Boughton - Maw: Orchestral Works (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 280 MB | Tracks: 19 | 72:44 min
Style: Classical | Label: Lyrita
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 280 MB | Tracks: 19 | 72:44 min
Style: Classical | Label: Lyrita
Nicholas Maw’s most fervent desire was to communicate directly with his audiences and produce material which performers would enjoy playing and Spring Music, written with the express purpose of diverting and entertaining an audience, finds the composer at his most uninhibited and freely expressive. Fresh, colorful and vibrant, this score has the exotic, open-hearted spirit of a curtain-raiser by William Walton or Alan Rawsthorne. In its final, slimmed-down version, it rapidly became one of Maw’s favorite pieces among his own output and he once described the long-breathed cello-led melody as ‘one of the best tunes I think I’ve actually ever written’. In 1995 Maw was commissioned by the BBC to write a work commemorating the 300th anniversary that year of the death of Purcell. Maw soon came to the conclusion that he wanted to round off his tribute piece with an example of a chaconne, a form in which Purcell was pre-eminent. The theme which Maw chose to embellish is derived from the first of his Life Studies for 15 solo strings. Taking his lead from Tchaikovsky, Maw decided that the main title should reflect precisely the reference vocabulary of the piece and so the piece became known for a while as Romantic Variations. Later still the title was altered to its definitive form of Voices of Memory: Variations for Orchestra. Described by Andrew Burn as ‘a major contribution to the genre’, the Sonata for Solo Violin was requested by Jorja Fleezanis, to whom the work is dedicated. In Maw’s Sonata for Solo Violin, the constraints of writing for a single stringed instrument in a four-movement, large-scale work are deftly surmounted by the composer’s gift for melodic lines and rhythmic invention. Each movement has a vivid sense of color, formal logic and onward momentum so that the writing, however demanding it may be, never suggests an arid study or a shallow technical exercise.
Tracklist:
01. Spring Music: I. Allegro brillante
02. Spring Music: II. Moderato con moto, sempre grazioso
03. Spring Music: III. A tempo
04. Spring Music: IV. Comodo e sempre grazioso
05. Variations for Orchestra "Voices of Memory": Theme. Grave e sostenuto
06. Variations for Orchestra "Voices of Memory": Var. 1, Poco piu mosso
07. Variations for Orchestra "Voices of Memory": Var. 2, Poco movimento
08. Variations for Orchestra "Voices of Memory": Var. 3, Allegro vivo
09. Variations for Orchestra "Voices of Memory": Var. 4, Molto tranquillo
10. Variations for Orchestra "Voices of Memory": Var. 5, Allegro vigoroso
11. Variations for Orchestra "Voices of Memory": Var. 6, Andante molto sostenuto
12. Variations for Orchestra "Voices of Memory": Var. 7, Vivace assai
13. Variations for Orchestra "Voices of Memory": Var. 8, Solenne, tempo giusto
14. Variations for Orchestra "Voices of Memory": Var. 9, Movimentato e misterioso
15. Variations for Orchestra "Voices of Memory": Var. 10, Finale. Molto moderato
16. Solo Violin Sonata: I. Scena
17. Solo Violin Sonata: II. March-Burlesque
18. Solo Violin Sonata: III. Tombeau
19. Solo Violin Sonata: IV. Flight
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