String Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14042378
Composed
by Sadie Harrison. Music
Sales America. Softcover.
University of York Music
Press #M570362660.
Published by University
of York Music Press
(HL.14042378).
Via Della
Fortuna by Sadie
Harrison. Written in 2013
especially for the St.
Christopher Chamber
Orchestra and Donatus
Katkus. 6; for String
Orchestra World premiere:
25th April 2013, St.
Katharine's Church,
Vilnius, St. Christopher
Chamber Orchestra,
conducted by Donatus
Katkus. UK premiere: 10th
May 2013, Cardiff
Millennium Centre, Vale
of Glamorgan Festival. I
- Casa di Caccia Antica
(The House of the Ancient
Hunt) II - Casa degli
Amorini Dorati (The House
of the Golden Cupids) III
- Casa del poeta tragico
(The House of the tragic
poet) IV - Return to the
Casa di Caccia Antica and
northwards to Lithuania
and the Amber Road
(Gintaro Kelias) The
piece is in fourshort
movements, each taking
its title from one of the
houses that line the main
streets in Pompeii.
Borrowing Mussorgsky's
'Promenade' from Pictures
at an Exhibition, the
piece has two walkers
(violas) who take the
listener with them onto
the Via Della Fortuna ,
then lead them from house
to house. Several amber
objects were found within
the houses, linking
Pompeii with Lithuania.
The last movement returns
to the House of the
Ancient Hunt then heads
northwards along the
Gintaro Kelias. The
jubilant closing music
refers to an earlier work
(Geda's Weavings) based
on Lithuanian folksongs.
Via Della
Fortuna by Sadie
Harrison. Written in 2013
especially for the St.
Christopher Chamber
Orchestra and Donatus
Katkus.
6; for
String
Orchestra
World
premiere: 25th April
2013, St.
Katharine'sChurch,
Vilnius, St. Christopher
Chamber Orchestra,
conducted by Donatus
Katkus.
UK premiere:
10th May 2013, Cardiff
Millennium Centre, Vale
of Glamorgan
Festival.
I - Casa
di Caccia Antica (The
House of the
AncientHunt)
II - Casa
degli Amorini Dorati (The
House of the Golden
Cupids)
III - Casa del
poeta tragico (The House
of the tragic poet)
IV
- Return to the Casa di
Caccia Antica and
northwards to Lithuania
and the Amber
Road(Gintaro
Kelias)
The piece
is in four short
movements, each taking
its title from one of the
houses that line the main
streets in Pompeii.
Borrowing Mussorgsky's
'Promenade' from Pictures
at an Exhibition, the
piece has twowalkers
(violas) who take the
listener with them onto
the Via Della
Fortuna, then
lead them from house to
house. Several amber
objects were found within
the houses, linking
Pompeii with Lithuania.
The lastmovement returns
to the House of the
Ancient Hunt then heads
northwards along the
Gintaro Kelias. The
jubilant closing music
refers to an earlier work
(Geda's Weavings) based
on Lithuanian
folksongs.
