747313235971

Maxwell Davies: Black Pentecost

Jones:Johnson:Bbc Phil

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Format: CD

Cat No: 8572359

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Release Date:  31 August 2014

Label:  Naxos / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  747313235971

Genres:  Classical  

Composer/Series:  Maxwell Davies

  • Description

    Both Black Pentecost and Stone Litany share a symphonic scale and an Orkney setting.Premièred by Simon Rattle in 1982, Black Pentecost is an impassioned plea against environmental destruction, taking its words from Orcadian author George Mackay Brown's novel Greenvoe, and cast in the form of a vocal symphony. Chamber-like restraint is matched by tense, dark writing that embraces threnody and cataclysm. Beautifully orchestrated and featuring elaborate melismas from the vocal soloist, Stone Litany, subtitled 'Runes from a House of the Dead', evokes the haunted landscape of a Neolithic burial mound plundered by Vikings.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Adagio - Allegro Molto
      • 2. Black Star, Operation Black Star Was How They Described It - David Wilson-Johnson/BBC Philharmonic O
      • 3. Bella Budge Presided Over a Diminishing Republic of Hens - Della Jones/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
      • 4. It Is a Pity That the Whole Life and Economy of the Island... - Della Jones/BBC Philharmonic Orchest
      • 5. Molto Lento - Andante
      • 6. Recitativo Lento - Voice: The Runic Alphabet
      • 7. Allegretto
      • 8. Andante Flessibile - Voice: Ingibjorg the Fair Widow
      • 9. Allegro Molto
      • 10. Moderato - Voice: Lothbrokar's Sons
      • 11. Recitativo Lento Molo Flessibile - Voice: Max the Mighty

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