Classical Composer: | Maxwell Davies, Peter |
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Work: | Chat Moss |
Year Composed: | 1993 |
Instrumentation: | 2.1.1.1 - 0.2.0.0 - timp.2perc - str |
Publisher: | Chester Music and Novello & Co. |
Duration: | 00:05:36 |
Period: | Contemporary |
Work Category: | Orchestral |
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Chat Moss, an area of marshy land between Manchester and Liverpool, near to Maxwell Davies's childhood home in Leigh and which a century before witnessed one of the most ingenious stretches of George Stephenson's railway line between the two cities, inspired one of the subtlest within his long sequence of pieces for amateur musicians. Written (though by no means straightforwardly) for school orchestra, and first performed by pupils from St. Edward's College Liverpool with John Moseley on 16 March 1994, this five-minute piece takes the form of a tone poem in which expressive evocation and formal ingenuity are deftly combined. The main theme is heard in the middle registers of woodwind and strings, providing the basis for the informal variations which follow. These feature solo oboe, trumpet and clarinet in turn—before the theme is taken up by trumpets and woodwind for an animated episode whose climax leads towards a subdued ending on lower strings, trumpets heightening the introspective mood.
Writer: Richard Whitehouse
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