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Mixed Ensemble
Richard Causton
Notturno
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-355823-6 26 March 1998
Price:
Available on request
for ensemble
Forces or Category
Ensemble
Duration
14 minutes
Difficulty
Moderately difficult to Difficult
Orchestration
fl (+picc&afl), cl (+Ebcl), hn (+sandpaper blks), hp, pn, 2 vln, vla, vc, db
Programme Notes
The three movements of this piece each explore aspects of a rather unpredictable, imaginary nighttime.
In the first movement, a smooth central section is framed by rhetorical instrumental dialogues; this music is associated with a poem by Salvatore Quasimodo which describes an old tree, a refuge to birds of the night, which resounds with a rapid beating of wings, and from on high... listens intently to the abyss. The central panel of the movement is formed by a sort of distant, blurred polyphony, lit up at intervals by bright chorale-like passages
The second movement is an interlude in cyclical form. As it rotates, the music follows through a trajectory rising from the opening viola solo.
The third movement re-treads the same harmonic ground as the first, but this time the music has been pushed towards extremes. The very slow central chorale, associated with the breathless calm of an uninhabited nighttime landscape, is juxtaposed with fast, rough music like something of the brutality which seems to accompany man wherever he goes.
© Richard Causton
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
Richard Causton
(b.1971)
Richard Causton was born in London in 1971 and studied at the University of York, the Royal College of Music and the Scuola Civica in Milan. He has worked with world renowned performers such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, London Sinfonietta, and the Nash Ensemble. He has been the recipient of several awards, including First Prize in the International 'Nuove Sincronie competition, the Mendelssohn Scholarship and a 2004 British Composer Award in the Best Instrumental Work category for Seven States of Rain. He was founder of the Royal College of Music Gamelan Programme and held the Fellow Commonership in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Richard Causton on the Birmingham Conservatoire website
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