Michael Tippett: Ritual Dances from "Midsummer Marriage" (Super Audio CD)

Michael Tippett (1905-1998)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox

Super Audio CD

SACD (Super Audio CD)

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Item will be re-manufactured.
Expected availability end of September 2025

Current price: EUR 19.99

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+The Rose Lake

Sound Format:: stereo & multichannel (Hybrid)
Artists:: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
Label:: Chandos
Year of recording ca.:: 2004
Item number:: 8459044
UPC/EAN:: 0095115503928
Release date:: 21.10.2005

To coincide with the centenary year of Tippett's birth

Reviews

FonoForum 03/06: »Hickox entgeht kein Detail der Partitur, er bringt die Farben seines Orchesters kräftig zum Leuchten.«

Disk 1 von 1 (SACD)

The rose lake (Lied ohne Worte für Orchester) (Nicholas und Anne Whyatt gewidmet)

1 Medium fast
2 The lake begins to sing: Slow -
3 Fast
4 The lake song is echoed from the sky: Slow -
5 Fast - Medium slow
6 The lake is in full song: Slow -
7 Medium slow - Medium fast -
8 Medium slow
9 The lake song leaves the sky: Slow -
10 Fast
11 The lake sings itself to sleep: Medium slow -
12 Calm - Medium fast

The midsummer marriage (Auszug) (Walter Goehr gewidmet)

13 Prelude: Lento - Andante
14 Transformation: L'istesso tempo
15 Preparation for the first dance: Allegretto con moto vigoroso
16 First dance, the earth in autumn (The hound chases the hare): Allegro molto
17 Transformation: (L'istesso tempo) - Andante
18 Preparation for the second dance: Allegretto con moto vigoroso
19 Second dance, the waters in winter (The otter chases the fish): Adagio tranquillo - Meno tranquillo - Tempo 1: ...
20 Transformation: Allegro molto (tempo della prima danza quasi doppio movimento) - Andante
21 Preparation for the third dance: Allegro flebile - Vigoroso
22 Third dance, the air in the spring (The hawk chases the bird): Allegro grazioso vivace (Tempo 1) - L'istesso tempo - ...
23 Preparation for the fourth dance: Doppio meno mosso
24 Fourth dance, fire in summer (The voluntary human sacrifice): Più mosso, allegro moderato - Presto - ...