Major Sorabji Broadcast; Coming Soon!
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:00 pm
The Sorabji Archive is delighted to relay a notice, as follows, that we have received about a broadcast of one of his most important piano works that is being given shortly in the Netherlands
Please note the dates 7 May and 14 May in your agendas, for on these dates Sequentia Cyclica super Dies Iræ, as performed by Jonathan Powell in Glasgow on 20 June 2010, will be broadcast!
You can find details at the site: http://www.concertzender.nl/programmagids . The broadcasts are mentioned under 6 May and 13 May in the calendar, because De Concertzender considers night-time broadcasts as belonging to the day before. Each broadcast will start at 00:00 (on the 7 May and 14 May), and last till 07:00 (Dutch times!).
PLEASE NOTE:
On the site the whole of Sequentia Cyclica super Dies Iræ is mentioned at the time of writing, but that is incorrect. Since the work is actually a bit longer than the program, cuts had to be made, and these have been decided and authorised by Jonathan Powell. What will be broadcast is the following:
Theme: Largo – Legatissimo sempre e nello stile medioevale detto ‘organum’
II. Moderato
III. Legato, soave e liscio
IV. Tranquillo e piano [Chorale prelude]
V. Ardito, focosamente
VIII. Tempo di Valzer con molta fantasia, disinvoltura e eleganza
IX. Capriccioso
X. Il tutto in una sonorità piena, dolce, morbida, calda e voluttuosa
XIII. Aria. Con fantasia e dolcezza
XVI. Punta d’organo
XV. Ispanica
XVI. Marcia funebre
XVII. Soave e dolce
XVIII. Duro, irato, energico
XIX. Quasi Debussy
XX. Spiccato, leggiero
XXI. Legatissimo, dolce e soave
XXII. Passacaglia [with 100 variations]
XXVI. Largamente pomposo e maestoso
XXVII. Fuga quintuplice a due, tre, quattro, cinque e sei voci ed a cinque soggetti.
There may be spoken ‘intervals’ at some points; we do not know the details for certain as yet.
Still, there will be some 6h 10mins of music!
The recording used is that made by David Carter - a private recording, i.e. not quite on the sound quality level of your top-level studio-produced SACD (for those for whom these things matter). Personally, it is the only recording of this stupendous work’s sole complete performance to date, as played equally stupendously by Jonathan Powell, so I would have been delighted by its recording even had it been made on a tin can. There will be a mention of the recording’s sound quality on the program, but really, it is quite good enough!
All that said, there remains to be said ample thanks to:
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, for writing it;
Alistair Hinton, for preserving it;
Alexander Abercrombie, for typesetting it;
Jonathan Powell, for performing it;
David Carter, for recording it;
De Concertzender, in the person of Gerard Meulenberg, for broadcasting it.
Without those, the program could not have been possible!
Sorabji is, sadly, beyond reach for thanksgivings; the remainder are still present.
Enjoy!
Please note the dates 7 May and 14 May in your agendas, for on these dates Sequentia Cyclica super Dies Iræ, as performed by Jonathan Powell in Glasgow on 20 June 2010, will be broadcast!
You can find details at the site: http://www.concertzender.nl/programmagids . The broadcasts are mentioned under 6 May and 13 May in the calendar, because De Concertzender considers night-time broadcasts as belonging to the day before. Each broadcast will start at 00:00 (on the 7 May and 14 May), and last till 07:00 (Dutch times!).
PLEASE NOTE:
On the site the whole of Sequentia Cyclica super Dies Iræ is mentioned at the time of writing, but that is incorrect. Since the work is actually a bit longer than the program, cuts had to be made, and these have been decided and authorised by Jonathan Powell. What will be broadcast is the following:
Theme: Largo – Legatissimo sempre e nello stile medioevale detto ‘organum’
II. Moderato
III. Legato, soave e liscio
IV. Tranquillo e piano [Chorale prelude]
V. Ardito, focosamente
VIII. Tempo di Valzer con molta fantasia, disinvoltura e eleganza
IX. Capriccioso
X. Il tutto in una sonorità piena, dolce, morbida, calda e voluttuosa
XIII. Aria. Con fantasia e dolcezza
XVI. Punta d’organo
XV. Ispanica
XVI. Marcia funebre
XVII. Soave e dolce
XVIII. Duro, irato, energico
XIX. Quasi Debussy
XX. Spiccato, leggiero
XXI. Legatissimo, dolce e soave
XXII. Passacaglia [with 100 variations]
XXVI. Largamente pomposo e maestoso
XXVII. Fuga quintuplice a due, tre, quattro, cinque e sei voci ed a cinque soggetti.
There may be spoken ‘intervals’ at some points; we do not know the details for certain as yet.
Still, there will be some 6h 10mins of music!
The recording used is that made by David Carter - a private recording, i.e. not quite on the sound quality level of your top-level studio-produced SACD (for those for whom these things matter). Personally, it is the only recording of this stupendous work’s sole complete performance to date, as played equally stupendously by Jonathan Powell, so I would have been delighted by its recording even had it been made on a tin can. There will be a mention of the recording’s sound quality on the program, but really, it is quite good enough!
All that said, there remains to be said ample thanks to:
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, for writing it;
Alistair Hinton, for preserving it;
Alexander Abercrombie, for typesetting it;
Jonathan Powell, for performing it;
David Carter, for recording it;
De Concertzender, in the person of Gerard Meulenberg, for broadcasting it.
Without those, the program could not have been possible!
Sorabji is, sadly, beyond reach for thanksgivings; the remainder are still present.
Enjoy!