Informationen zu "Anthony Gilbert Outflow Double Bass Solo"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM560
EAN: 9790570455607
ISMN: M-57045-560-7
Beschreibung
Anthony Gilbert writes: 'This is a simple set of variations on a 14-note
melodic line. But forget variations, there is no need to introduce too much
contrast - the sense of flowing, growing line is more in the spirit of the
essential song-like quality of the piece. Here and there it sings the name of
its dedicatee, you may also detect some phrases in which it 'melismatically'
sings its own title.' Anthony Gilbert, born in London in 1934, studied
composition with Matyas Seiber, Anthony Milner and Alexander Goehr, and later
with Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood. He first attracted public attention in
the 1960s with a series of virtuoso works for small ensemble, performed in
the international festivals. Leaving London for the North of England in 1970,
first as Granada Arts Fellow at Lancaster University and then to teach
Composition at the Royal Northen College of Music, he devoted the next ten
years to symphonies and operas. During the 1980s, largely as a result of
periods in Australia, he focused again on compositions featuring solo
performers - many, including the extraordinary concert 'Igorochki', being for
the virtuoso recorder player John Turner. From this period also date 'Dream
carousels' for wind, and the orchestral song-cycle 'Certain Lights
Reflecting', both inspired by the work of the Australian poet Sarah Day. In
the 1990s Gilbert again concentrated on virtuoso pieces, this time featuring
percussion. The major work from the 1990s is the acclaimed Violin Concerto
'On Beholding a Rainbow', commissioned by the BBC and premiered in January
1999 by Anthony Marwood and the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Rumon Gamba.
Another recent orchestral work, the 'Dance Concerto', is dedicated in
gratitude to Stephen Plaistow, former Head of BBC Contemporary Music. In the
past 10 years several song-cycles setting Spanish, French and Australian
poetry were followed by a rush of pieces for strings including two more
string quartets, some short pieces for solo double bass, bass guitar and a
longer one: 'Rapprochement' for cello and piano. 2014 brought 'Triptych' for
the Northern Chamber Orchestra and 'Haven of Mysteries', a string quintet
reflecting on the wonders of Chartres Cathedral commissioned by the Wigmore
Hall Trust for the Carducci String Quartet and cellist Guy Johnston.
