Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.48024114
Hawkes Pocket Score
1390. Composed by
Magnus Lindberg. Boosey &
Hawkes Scores/Books.
Classical. Softcover. 40
pages. Boosey & Hawkes
#M060122408. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48024114).
ISBN
9780851628363. UPC:
888680708900. 8.25x11.75
inches. Hawkes Pocket
Score 1390.
Chorale
(2001-02), for orchestra,
is a kind of musical
meditation on the chorale
Es ist genug from Bach's
cantata O Ewigkeit, du
Donnerwort, itself a
harmonisation of J R
Ahle's 1662 hymn. Nick
Kimberley's preface
outlines the context of
the Bach original and
refers to Alban Berg's
use of the chorale in his
Violin Concerto almost
300 years later. In
contrast to both of these
works, Lindberg's Chorale
has no extra-musical
agenda. The composer
explains that he took the
harmonic structure of the
chorale and embedded it
in his own harmonies.
“I make an analogy
with the rise and fall of
the tide. When the tide
is in, the sea-bed is
invisible; but when the
tide goes out, you see
the rock formation on the
sea-bed.” Tribute
is a short show-piece for
full orchestra composed
in 2004 as a gift to
celebrate the 20th
anniversary of Esa-Pekka
Salonen's debut with the
Los Angeles
Philharmonic.
