Together now, the four poems River, Bloodfire, Wind Mountain, and Earthsleep counterpoint one another in a grand symphony, Midquest. In what he has referred to as “something like a verse novel,” Fred
Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group of orchestral pieces intended to depict a variety of subjects drawn from literature, visual art and drama. Today, the symphonic poems are usually seen as alternatives to the symphony post-Beethoven. Analysts stress their symphonic logic, thereby neglecting their 'extramusical' subject matter. This book takes a different approach: it returns these influential pieces to their original performance context in the theatre, arguing that the symphonic poem is as much a dramatic as a symphonic genre. This is evidenced in new analyses of the music that examines the theatricality of these pieces and their depiction of voices, mise-en-scène, gesture and action. Simultaneously, the book repositions Liszt's legacy within theatre history, arguing that his contributions should be placed alongside those of Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wagner.
Liszt invented the tone poem, and this is his most famous example. Inspired by Goethe's great verse drama, the work constitutes a feat of brilliant innovation and extraordinary expressive power.
Three-movement symphony inspired by an English Jacobean poem about a bubble. 48 minutes. Composer Elliott Carter's 100th birthday was celebrated in December of 2008.
在詩集和散文之後，2020諾貝爾文學獎得主葛綠珂最不同以往的，精巧卻又恬靜的短篇故事。透過一對未滿一歲的雙胞胎女嬰，Marigold和Rose的感官，感知並探索這個世界。有趣的是，對世界尚無概念的兩人，想法看似迥異卻微妙地互補。葛綠珂藉嬰幼兒的雙眼，提供了一個認知和理解世界的可愛角度。Marigold and Rose is an enchanting, playful, and absolutely singular fable from the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Glück.“Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V.” So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Glück’s astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, an incandescent act of autobiography.Here are the elements you’d expect to find in a story of infant twins―Father and Mother; Grandmother and Other Grandmother; bath time and naptime―but more than that, Marigold and Rose is an investigation of the great mystery of language and of time itself, of what is and what has been and what will be. “Outside the playpen there wer
Rachmaninoff wrote his Opus 35, "The Bells," as a choral symphony in 1913. The words are adapted from the Edgar Allan Poe poem by the same name. Includes: Allegro, ma non tanto * Lento * Presto * Lent
