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Clarinet Quintet: In Prairial and Thermidor
978-0-19-335681-8
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Paperback
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11 October 2007
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for clarinet quintet
This beautiful chamber work takes its inspiration from an artist's book by the Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay, 'A Litany A Requiem'. This book lists on alternate red, white, and blue paper plants from the month of Prairial (May-June in the French Revolutionary Calendar), set against a list of revolutionaries guillotined in the month of Thermidor (July-August). The work is in two movements - 'A Litany for Prairial' which is fast, lively, and (mostly) pastoral; and 'A Requiem for Thermidor' which is slow, largely subdued, and funereal. Forces or CategoryClarinet & string
quartetDuration19 minutesProgramme NotesClarinet Quintet: In Prairial and Thermidor is the third of three pieces based on works by the great Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay, each work being in a different medium, although all are text-based. The quintet, in two movements - A litany for Prairial and A Requiem for Thermidor - is derived from the artist's book, A Litany A Requiem. Printed on, alternately, red, white and blue paper, it contains on successive pages the following texts:
A litany for Prairial
Angelique; Tilleul; Pavot; Serpolet; Chevrefeille; Thym
A requiem for
Thermidor
Fleuriot; Hanriot; Couthon; Payan; Robespierre; Saint-Just
A list of plants from the month of Prairial (May-June in the French Revolutionary Calendar) is set against a list of those revolutionaries guillotined along with Robespierre in the month of Thermidor (July-August). A nore explains that the fatal day was named Arrosoir (watering can). Each movement is in six sections (one for each plant, or revolutionary). The proportions, metres, and key structures of the two movements are identical, so that the econd is an exact structural reprise of the first.
The music of A Litany for Prairial is fast, lively, and (mostly) pastoral, while A Requiem for Thermidor is slow, largely subdued, and funereal. There is no attempt to characterise any plant or person,
although Robespierre is commemorated with an anguished shriek, and Sant-Just by a pianissimo chorale over an inexorable cello ostinato.
Clarinet Quintet: In Prairial and Thermidor was written to a private commission, and was first performed by Andrew Sparling and the Brindisi Quartet at the Tate Gallery on June 13th 1996.
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Gabriel Jackson (b.1962) Gabriel Jackson was born in Bermuda in 1962. After three years as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral he studied composition at the Royal College of Music.
Jackson's music has been performed and broadcast worldwide, and his works have been presented at many festivals including Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Spitalfields, ThreeTwo (New York) and Europa Cantat. His liturgical pieces are in the repertoires of many of Britain's cathedral and collegiate choirs, and in 2003 he won the Liturgical category at the inaugural British Composer Awards. Delphian Records released a disc of Jackson's choral music in 2005 and a Christmas CD including The Magi and Thou whose birth in 2007. A disc performed by Polyphony is due for release by Hyperion in June 2009.
Over recent years Jackson's music has been equally focussed on instrumental works. Commissions include works for guitarist Tom Kerstens, organist Michael Bonaventure, and the Lunar Sax Quartet.
More on Gabriel Jackson at the British Music Information Centre website
Gabriel Jackson's MySpace page
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