Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14027993
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2006. 164
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH30602.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14027993).
ISBN
9788759811832.
English.
Premiered
at the festival 'Magma
Berlin 2002' by the
Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by
David Robertson, 29th
November 2002.
3
Flutes, 1st and 2nd also
Alto Flutes in G, 3rd
also Piccolo
3 Oboes,
3rd also Cor Anglais in
F
3 Clarinets in Bb,
3rd also Bass Clarinet in
Bb
3 Bassoons, 3rd
also Contra
Bassoon
4 Horn in
F
3 Trumpets in
Bb
3 Trombones
1
Tuba
Timpani
4 Percussion, four
players
Player
1 - Vibraphone,
Glockenspiel, Water
Chime, Bell Tree,
Japanese Wood Blocks,
Cymbal (Suspended),
TamTam (Medium)
Player
2 - Triangle, Tubular
Bells, Crotales, Marimba,
Chinese Cymbal
Player
3 - TamTam (Large), Java
Gong(Large, very low),
Bell Lyra (Handheld),
Sizzle Cymbal
Player 4
- Bass Drum,
Glockenspiel,
Xylophone
1
Harp
1 Piano, also
Celesta
Strings -
16/14/12/10/8
All
transposing instruments
are notated in their
relevant
transpositions.
Any
accidental apply only to
the note that it
immediately precedes,
except tied
notes.
Naturals appear
occasionally 'for
safety'.
'LIST
ENING EARTH' is a
symphonic drama, a one-
movement composition in
four parts based on the
work by two writers,
Joseph Addison
(1672-1719) and W.H.Auden
(1907-1973). Joseph
Addison is not
particularly well known;
he was English, a
classical scholar,
essayist, poet and
politician, but one of
his hymns was used by
Benjamin Britten. in his
setting of a Thomas
Tallis canon.
The hymn
is singularly beautiful
and being a composer
always inspired by
extramusical stimuli such
as poems, nature,
paintings, I was
immediately convinced
when I carne across the
Addison hymn, that here
was exactly what I wanted
to use as my major source
of inspiration for this
piece, commissioned by
and written for The
Berlin Philharmonic.
I don't refer to the
hymn in its entirety, but
have chosen the following
3 excerpts, all acting as
mottos for the first
three sections of the
piece, thus turning the
piece into a
straightforward tonepoem
in the classical.
