Wessex Graves

Version for tenor and harp
Erscheinungsjahr 1986
ISBN: 978-0-19-345152-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Sonstiges, Englisch, 24 Seiten, Format (B × H): 231 mm x 310 mm, Gewicht: 93 g

Song cycle originally scored for tenor and harp. It also exists in an arrangement for mezzo-soprano and piano.

This arrangement was previously on hire and these songs are among Berkeley's earliest compositions, written in the mid-1970s at the suggestion and encouragement of Peter Pears. They are deliberately written in a folk-song idiom, partly because the nature of the words suggested this style. The poems, by Thomas Hardy, were chosen for various treatments of one theme - death, and the grave. Some are wistful, some tragic, some humorous. There are no better programme notes than the words
themselves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Berkeley, Michael

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Berkeley was born in 1948. He studied composition, singing, and piano at the Royal Academy of Music but it was not until his late twenties, when he went to study with Richard Rodney Bennett, that Berkeley began to concentrate exclusively on composing. In 1977 he was awarded the Guinness Prize for Composition; two years later he was appointed Associate Composer to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Since then Michael's music has been played all over the globe and
by some of the world's finest musicians. Most of Michael's significant orchestral work, much of his chamber music and his operas are available on CD as part of the Chandos Berkeley Edition. For ten years from 1995 Michael was artistic director of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music. He
currently presents Radio 3's Private Passions, which won the Broadcasting Press Guild's Radio Programme of the Year Award in 1996, and is Chairman of the Governors of The Royal Ballet.