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For Large Orchestra
and Electronics.
Composed by Jonathan
Harvey. Full Orchestra
(Full Score); Performance
Music Ensemble; Single
Titles. Faber Edition.
20th Century. Score.
Faber Music
#12-0571538886. Published
by Faber Music
(AP.12-0571538886).
ISBN 9780571538881.
English.
Speakings
for large orchestra and
electronics is
undoubtedly one of
Jonathan Harvey's most
important and ambitious
works. Composed in 2008,
it utilizes a unique
process of electronic
transformation developed
at IRCAM to explore the
possibility that an
orchestra could be made
to speak. Typeset, and
with input from Gilbert
Nouno who collaborated
with Harvey on the
electronic element, this
long-awaited new edition
makes this stunning piece
even more accessible to
conductors and
enthusiasts.
Winne
r of the prestigious
Monaco Prize, the
25-minute work belongs to
a fascinating clutch of
works composed around the
time of Harvey's final
opera, Wagner Dream,
which contains musical
allusions to Wagner, in
this case Parsifal.
Unfolding over three
continuous movements, the
music moves from the
babbling of a baby and
the frenetic chatter of
human life in all its
expressions, to music of
unity, a hymn that is
close to Gregorian chant
in which---in Harvey's
words---the paradise of
the sounding temple is
imagined.
Baby King
