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布里斯:瑪格達拉的瑪麗/女巫/約翰．布羅的主題冥想
安德魯．戴維斯 指揮 BBC交響樂團暨合唱團
Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
James Platt (bass)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Chorus
Sir Andrew Davis
Bliss composed The Enchantress in 1951, the year of his sixtieth birthday, for Kathleen Ferrier. The text is a free adaptation of the Second Idyll of Theocritus, made by Henry Reed, and well suited to Bliss's love of classical Greek authors.
Meditations on a Theme by John Blow, from 1955, was written for the CBSO, the first in a number of commissions from the John Feeney Trust. Inspired by John Blow's Coronation Anthems, the work is a set of variations on a Sinfonia from that collection, each variation reflecting the text of a verse from Psalm 23.
Described as a sacred cantata, Mary of Magdala was Bliss's second Feeney Trust commission, composed during 1962 and 1963. For a libretto, Bliss turned to Christopher Hassall, his collaborator on three previous works, including The Beatitudes.
Bliss conducted the premiere at the Three Choirs Festival in 1963, and wrote in his programme note: ‘One of the loveliest stories in the New Testament is that in the 20th chapter of St John's Gospel, telling of how Mary Magdalene, lingering at the sepulchre, was the first to see the risen Christ. She, supposing him to be the gardener.'
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus give of their best under their former chief conductor Sir Andrew Davis, and the contributions from the soloists, Dame Sarah Connolly and James Platt, are outstanding.
SIR ARTHUR BLISS
The Enchantress (1951) *17:11
1.Moderato - Molto vivo - Sostenuto - Molto vivace -3:21
2.Siaetha: 'Oh moon, shine fair'. Andante con moto - Animato -5:09
3.Simætha: 'Silent the sea, beneath the silent winds'.1:46
4.Recitativo (meditatively). Simætha: 'How I saw him in the street' -3:57
5.Simætha: 'And now in the fire I fling you'. Molto vivo -2:56
Meditations on a Theme by John Blow (1955)32:11
6.Introduction: 'The Lord is my Shepherd'/'I will fear no evil'.6:39
7.I'He leadeth me beside the still waters'. Allegro moderato, ma tranquillo2:52
8.II'Thy rod and staff They comfort me'. Allegro deciso2:47
9.IIILambs. Scherzando2:38
10.IV'He restoreth my soul'. Allegro2:34
11.V'In green pastures'. Larghetto - Andante tranquillo -4:33
12.Interlude. 'Through the vally of the shadow of death'.4:06
13.Finale. 'In the House of the Lord'. Moderato e deciso -6:00
Mary of Magdala (1962-63) *27:17
14.Chorus: 'Ashen the sky'. Poco sostenuto -4:23
15.Mary: 'At last, at last'. Moderato - Meno mosso - Più mosso -3:35
16.Chorus: 'Look there, look there'. Allegro -1:09
17.Christ: 'Why trouble ye her?' Poco lento -1:12
18.Chorus: 'The proud Aegyptian Queen'. Gently flowing -1:58
19.Mary: 'Surely this was the place'. Moderato, poco agitato - Meno mosso - Vivo -1:57
20.Mary: 'But what are those two strangers'. Grave - Più agitato - Grave -2:40
21.Recitativo. Mary: 'But who is that yonder' - Agitato - Calmato -4:07
22.Chorus: 'Mary, Mother was the pleasant bower' -6:11
Total time: 76:58 |
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