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Nightsongs
Score and parts
36 pages
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297x210mm
978-0-19-336172-0
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Paperback
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23 October 2008
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Nightsongs is a hauntingly atmospheric response to the famous and magically beautiful gardens at Ninfa, created a century or so ago around the remains of an ancient settlement southeast of Rome. At night in the garden, intoxicating scents, moonlit vistas and the song of nightingales can combine to flood the senses. And in the same way that Ninfa grew and evolved from its original planting, roses and climbers now enveloping those ruins, Powers uses Monteverdi's madrigal Amor: Lamento della Ninfa as the source material, the seed from which the work grows.Nightsongs was commissioned and first performed by the Schubert Ensemble at the Purcell Room, on 29 February 2008.
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CategoryPiano quartetDuration10 minutesDifficultyDifficultProgramme NotesThis piece arose from memories of two visits made to the magnificent gardens of Ninfa, south-east of Rome. Staying in the garden guesthouse, the unique atmosphere and romantic beauty of Ninfa, those early summer nights when intoxicating scents, moonlit vistas and the sound of nightingales flooded the senses, were unforgettable.
Reflecting the long history of Ninfa (an ancient
township among whose remains the garden was created from the early 20th century onwards) the piece takes one of Monteverdis best known madrigals, Amor: Lamento della Ninfa, (which has no connection with the place) as its musical source. Particular phrases and harmonies from the madrigal are developed and varied in my own idiom, rather as a garden may grow and evolve from its original planting, and very much as the roses and other climbers at Ninfa now envelope the ruins of the town. The piece is in one movement of about eleven minutes, framed by short but quite explosive gestures offsetting and containing the otherwise generally more tranquil, lyrical and restrained music.
Nightsongs was commissioned by the Schubert Ensemble, to whom it is dedicated, with funds generously made
available by the Schubert Ensemble Trust. The first performance was given by the Schubert Ensemble at the Purcell Room, London on 29 February 2008.
© Anthony Powers 2008 (reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press)
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Anthony Powers (b.1953) Born in London in 1953, Anthony Powers studied at Oxford, in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, and at York with David Blake and Bernard Rands. He taught for two years at Dartington College of Arts before being appointed Composer-in-Residence to Southern Arts. Since then he has moved to Herefordshire where he continues to divide his time between composing and teaching, currently at Cardiff University, where he has been Professor of composition since 2004.
Powers's music is characterized by strong architectonic frameworks that support a language of poetic intensity and magical sonorities. His music often takes its inspiration from the tension between different states, be they physical properties, landscapes, seasons or emotions.Anthony Powers at Cardiff University
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