- EAN13
- 9790220117558
- Éditeur
- SCHOTT MUSIC
- Date de publication
- 2000
- Collection
- OPERA
- Nombre de pages
- 20
- Poids
- 105 g
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
The Black River
text from "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" by Jules Verne. soprano and organ. soprano. Partition.
Gavin Bryars
Schott Music
Opera
Offres
This piece is one of a series of works that take texts or imagery from the work of Jules Verne. Here the text is taken from 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, a section in which Professor Aronnax describes the scene outside the Nautilus where countless varieties of sea-creatures escort the submarine along the current of the mysterious underwater Black River.
Coincidentally the first work that I wrote using Verne as a source, the cantata Effarene (1984), sets an earlier portion of the same chapter for its closing movement and I find the objectivity and invention of Verne's language a constant stimulus. As Raymond Queneau said of Verne: "What a style! Nothing but nouns."
The piece was written for a concert given by the organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent at Leicester Cathedral in January 1991 and later recorded by him with soprano Sarah Leonard for ECM New Series in 1993.
Gavin Bryars.
Instrumentation:
soprano and organ
Coincidentally the first work that I wrote using Verne as a source, the cantata Effarene (1984), sets an earlier portion of the same chapter for its closing movement and I find the objectivity and invention of Verne's language a constant stimulus. As Raymond Queneau said of Verne: "What a style! Nothing but nouns."
The piece was written for a concert given by the organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent at Leicester Cathedral in January 1991 and later recorded by him with soprano Sarah Leonard for ECM New Series in 1993.
Gavin Bryars.
Instrumentation:
soprano and organ
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