Informationen zu "Peter Tchaikovsky Arr: Christopher Field Three Songs Double Bass & Piano"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM931
EAN: 9790570459315
ISMN: M-57045-931-5
Beschreibung
Nostalgia, love and loss are recurrent themes in Tchaikovsky's songs of which
he composed more than one hundred between 1869 and his death twenty-four
years later. Essentially intimate pieces, and frequently reflecting the
composer's melancholy temperament and inner emotional turmoil, they lend
themselves well to transcription calling for breadth of tonal colouring and
sensitive use of rubato in order to capture the Romantic character at their
heart. None but the lonely heart Op. 6 No. 6: One of Tchaikovsky's most
popular songs, is a setting in Russian of Goethe's Nun wer die Sehnsucht
kennt from Wilhelm Meister, in which the young girl, Mignon, opines that
unless they, too, have had a similar experience, no-one can understand her
feeling of desolation following the loss of her beloved. At the ball Op. 38,
No. 3: The text by Count Alexei Tolstoy tells of a young man drifting in and
out of sleep as he tries to understand his feelings for the girl who has
bewitched him at the ball that evening. Believe it not, my friend Op. 6 No.
1: Another text by Alexei Tolstoy in which the lover, regretting his moment
of madness when he told his beloved he no longer loved her, declares his
feelings for her to be as strong as ever they were. Christopher Field
studied with Juliet Cunningham and Diana Fryer. He began teaching the double
bass in 1964 and has written numerous small pieces for teaching purposes some
of which have, over the years, appeared in the graded syllabuses of the major
examination boards. Primarily a singer, he has also transcribed arias and
songs for double bass and piano.
