Volume 3, Choral Score
Choral - intermediate
SKU: HL.49019252
Male Choir Volume 3,
Choral Score.
Composed by Gavin Bryars.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Choral. Classical.
Softcover. Composed
2009/2010. 22 pages.
Duration 8'. Schott Music
#ED13346-03. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49019252).
ISBN
9790220133176. UPC:
884088953515.
8.25x11.75x0.085 inches.
English. Choral Music of
Our Time.
These two
sonnet settings, in much
simpler forms than here,
were originally part of
my piano concerto. The
presence of a male chorus
within the concerto
represents a kind of
homage to Busoni, a
composer whom I have
always admired and whose
piano concerto has a
men's chorus in the last
movement. I had used a
chorus of Russian bass
voices in my double bass
concerto, so there is
precedence within my own
work. My choice of the
poetry of the great
Scottish poet Edwin
Morgan alludes to my
other work with male
choirs, having already
set six of his Sonnets
from Scotland by this
time. The two sonnets are
heard in their entirety
in the concerto, and one
of them - The Solway
Canal - gives a subtitle
to the concerto, just as
Kukol'nik's Farewell to
St Petersburg gives a
subtitle to the double
bass concerto. Gavin
Bryars, 2012. Contents:
The Solway Canal * A
Place of Many Waters.
Two Sonnets
