Guitarra e Baixo
Bateria e Percussão
Percussão de Orquestra
Piano e Teclados
Sopros de Metal
Sopros de Madeira
Instrumentos de Corda
Coro e Voz Solista
Instrumentos Tradicionais
Música para Escolas
Livros sobre Música
Ensemble, Orquestra e Banda
Todos os instrumentos
Música Sacra
Descrição
These settings were written to a commission from the Southern Cathedrals Festival and first performed in Salisbury Cathedral on 24 July 1976 by choirs of Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester Cathedrals with the Phillip Jones BrassEnsemble, conducted by Richard Seal.Pied Beauty
The rhythmic elasticity and freedom of the poem matches the vividness of its images and the freshness of the poetic language: it is like light playing on water. In thissetting for choir and brass phrases for trumpets and then voices- ‘Glory to be God’- Alternate with more meditative moments- ‘who knows how?’. The contrast of the poem- ‘swift, slow – sweet, sour- a dazzle, dim‘ quick changes fromsunshine to shadow- are mirrored in the music.
Heaven Haven
The stillness and serenity of this poem, one of Hopkins’ earliest, is in direct contrast to the other. ‘Out of the swing of the sea’, to a gently rockingfigure, runs as a sort of undercurrent through the piece. At the end this figure combines with a motive in thirds, (heard quietly on the trumpets at the opening) and expands slowly, with the choir in eight parts, before dying awayinto silence.