Arthur Bliss: Music for Strings (1935)
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- Опубліковано 1 бер 2014
- Arthur Bliss (1891-1975): Music for Strings, op.54 (1935).
I. Allegro moderato, energico
II. Andante, molto sostenuto [08:40]
III. Allegro molto, presto [18:19]
English Northern Philharmonia diretta da David Lloyd Jones.
Cover image: painting by John Collier.
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IN 1961 AT 17 IN MY FIRST JOB AFTER SCHOOL WORKING FOR NOVELLO AND CO WARDOUR STREET LONDON, RETURNING FROM LUNCH ONE DAY I WAS ASKED TO TAKE A GUY UP IN THE HAND CRANKED LIFT. I WAS AFTERWARDS ASKED IF I KNEW WHO THE GUY IS AND I WAS ASTOUNDED TO BE TOLD THAT IT W WAS SIR ARTHUR BLISS, THE THEN MASTER OF ROYAL MUSIC. I MADE UP ORDERS OF SHEET MUSIC, MADE TEA AND WALKED TO MANY MUSIC PUBLISHERS TAKING AND COLLECTING SHEET MUSIC. SOME LUNCH TIMES WE LISTENED TO MUSIC ON A RADIO GRAM IN OUR RESAT ROOM AND I REMEMBER HEARING FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE RITE OF SPRING BY I STRAVINSKY. I ALSO PLAYED THE GRAND PIANO UPSTAIRS AND MET ONE OFTHE OWNERS OF NOVELLOS, A MEMBER OF THE LITTLETON FAMILY THEN, AND SWE CHATTED. THOSE WERE THE DAYS, 57 YEARS AGO.
The last movement was very impressive. Great inventiveness.
I discovered this wonderful work when I was about seventeen and struggling with being a young composer in the late seventies. This was the sort of music I longed to write - broad-arched, sweeping melodies, exciting dissonance rather than continual dodecaphonic tunelessness. I still get goosebumps at the cascade leading into the stirring second subject at 1.17. There I go again. What composer of 1977 could admit to liking 'stirring' music?
+Andrew Lowe-Watson I was drawn to it from Things to Come - supposedly he composed this after a frustrating experience scoring that film, which might explain why it's so energetic.
Lots could. This idea they were all against 'stirring music' is mythology. I was there too.
Not as "splashy" as Arnold or as serious as Alwyn, this music has an engaging charm and panache that is totally winning.