Maxwell Davies - Black Pentecost, Stone Litany
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Label: Naxos
Cat No: 8572359
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st September 2014
Contents
Artists
Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Peter Maxwell DaviesWorks
Black PentecostStone Litany 'Runes from a house of the dead'
Artists
Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Peter Maxwell DaviesAbout
Both Black Pentecost and Stone Litany share a symphonic scale and an Orkney setting.
Premičred by Simon Rattle in 1982, Black Pentecost is an impassioned plea against environmental destruction, taking its words from Orcadian author George Mackay Brown’s novel Greenvoe, and cast in the form of a vocal symphony. Chamber-like restraint is matched by tense, dark writing that embraces threnody and cataclysm.
Beautifully orchestrated and featuring elaborate melismas from the vocal soloist, Stone Litany, subtitled ‘Runes from a House of the Dead’, evokes the haunted landscape of a Neolithic burial mound plundered by Vikings.
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