Format : Study Score / Miniature
SKU: HL.14021022
ISBN 9780711982888.
This work was commissioned by the University of British Columbia through the gift of David Lemon. It was first performed on 11th May 1997 at the Chan Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, by Valdine Anderson (soprano), Linda Maguire (mezzo soprano), Paul Moore (tenor) and Kevin McMillan (baritone), with the Vancouver Bach Choir and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conducted by the composer. Like Vaughan Williams in his Job: A Masque for Dancing, Davies was inspired in part by William Blake's 21 engravings for the Book of Job. His oratorio, however, is less dependent on finding parallels for Blake's visual details, given the direct poetry in David Lemon's adaptation of the Stephen Mitchell translation from the biblical original, it is hardly surprising that the spotlight should be so much on Job's suffering litany. The baritone has the lion's share of the setting, though the other soloists occasionally reinforce his plea and chorale-like episodes universalize his predicament. Davies frames with work with two seminal plainsong-like passages; there is also plenty of dramatic contrast both within Job's monologues and in the vivid orchestral writing for the smarmy Comforters, the initially shrill God who finally appears out of a dazzling orchestral whirlwind and the animal life he uses to illustrate the wonders of creation to a humbled Job.
SKU: HL.48010773
UPC: 073999559699. 7.3x10.2x0.224 inches.
HPS 1110 For Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra.
SKU: HL.49003178
ISBN 9790220117237. UPC: 073999468175. 8.25x11.75x0.149 inches.
Commissioned by the BBC to inaugurate Birmingham's Symphony Hall on 12 June 1991, the sense of optimism surrounding that event is exactly mirrored in Momentum's long melodic lines and vibrant rhythms, drawing themselves out at the last minute into a litany of orchestral gestures massively confirming the mood of communal pride and aspiration. Nothing could better reflect the sense of civic distinction than the ensemble giving that first concert, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with whom Turnage was then Composer-in-Association.
SKU: CA.4005507
ISBN 9790007087456. Key: B flat major. Language: Latin.
The large-scale church works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart include, along with his Masses, Requiem and Vespers, his four litanies, all composed in and for Salzburg. The Litany KV 125, dated March 1772, employs the identical text and nine-movement structure als its sister work, the larger-scaled KV 243 of March 1776. Score available separately - see item CA.4005500.
SKU: CA.4005707
ISBN 9790007087487. Key: E flat major. Language: Latin.
This Litany consists of six movements divided into nine different, distinguished sections. Clearly, Mozart used as models for his work the sacramental litanies of his Salzburg predecessors and contemporaries. Score available separately - see item CA.4005700.
