Symphony No. 2 : Aotearoa Overture : Diversions for Strings
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Title:
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Symphony No. 2 : Aotearoa Overture : Diversions for Strings |
Otros títulos:
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Sinfonía No. 2 : Obertura Aotearoa : Divertimentos para Cuerdas |
Intérprete/ Colaborador:
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Douglas Lilburn; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Ashley Heenan; John Hopkins; NZBC Schola Musicum |
Código CDU:
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Lil.01 |
Forma Musical:
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Symphonies, Overtures, String Orchestra Music |
Abstract:
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Douglas Lilburn has for decades been considered to be New Zealand's premier composer. He studied at the University of Canterbury and at the Royal College of Music with Vaughan Williams. He taught for many years at the Victoria University at Wellington. In addition to a large body of instrumental works, he has also composed in the field of electronic music, an important work here being The Return, a sound image setting of a poem by Alistair Campbell.
His Aotearoa Overture is one of his most popular works. The word means "Land of the Long White Cloud" and was what New Zealanders called their country before the Dutch arrived and renamed it. A brief work of elegantly overlaid sustained chords, restrained and touching.
The Third Symphony of 1961 is a remarkable work for its refined style and intelligent working of limited materials; in one movement made up of five interrelated sections, Lilburn's post-Romanticism winds through many groups of variations and ends quite unexpectedly in a ... |
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