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Livre pour Orchestre is organised into four ‘chapters’ separated by three interludes (short melodic fragments ‘ad libitum’ and not conducted). Lutoslawski ha...
Igor Stravinsky - In Memoriam Dylan Thomas for Tenor, Three Trombones and String Quartet (1954)--------------------------------------------------------------...
I found this comment, which presumably relates to this performance.
At Donaueschingen last autumn, for example, Peter Pears gave a masterly and indeed overwhelming performance of the Dylan Thomas song. When, after the concert, I remarked that the work was written in the strictest serial technique, he seemed amazed; in fact, in his mind serial methods seemed to be bound up with absolute atonality. Why enlighten him? Even Peter Pears will profit. He sang the first note a semitone flat. He could not have done so if he had known the row.
This is from
In Memoriam Dylan Thomas: Strawinsky's Schoenbergian Technique
Author(s): Hans Keller
Source: Tempo, New Series, No. 35 (Spring, 1955), pp. 13-20
Published by: Cambridge University Press
A beautiful work with which hitherto I was unfamiliar.
Pleased to have introduced you to it!
Not the best recorded version, it must be said, but interesting to see the score.
Now: go compare (as they say) with the piano version, if you need any further convincing of what a superb orchestrator Ravel was.
I looked for a YouTube version with score as I couldn't remember and work out the rhythm of the tune in the first few bars in my head!
So, split into 12 beats, there are notes on beats 1, 4, 9, and 11!
Magic, and it really does 'roll', just like a boat on the waves.
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