{"product_id":"maw-bbc-national-orch-of-wales-boughton-spring-music-voices-of-memory","title":"Maw \/ Bbc National Orch Of Wales \/ Boughton- Spring Music \/ Voices of Memory (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicholas Maw's most fervent desire was to communicate directly with his audiences and produce material which performers would enjoy playing and Spring Music, written with the express purpose of diverting and entertaining an audience, finds the composer at his most uninhibited and freely expressive. Fresh, colorful and vibrant, this score has the exotic, open-hearted spirit of a curtain-raiser by William Walton or Alan Rawsthorne. In it's final, slimmed-down version, it rapidly became one of Maw's favorite pieces among his own output and he once described the long-breathed cello-led melody as 'one of the best tunes I think I've actually ever written'. In 1995 Maw was commissioned by the BBC to write a work commemorating the 300th anniversary that year of the death of Purcell. Maw soon came to the conclusion that he wanted to round off his tribute piece with an example of a chaconne, a form in which Purcell was pre-eminent. The theme which Maw chose to embellish is derived from the first of his Life Studies for 15 solo strings. Taking his lead from Tchaikovsky, Maw decided that the main title should reflect precisely the reference vocabulary of the piece and so the piece became known for a while as Romantic Variations. Later still the title was altered to it's definitive form of Voices of Memory: Variations for Orchestra. Described by Andrew Burn as 'a major contribution to the genre', the Sonata for Solo Violin was requested by Jorja Fleezanis, to whom the work is dedicated. In Maw's Sonata for Solo Violin, the constraints of writing for a single stringed instrument in a four-movement, large-scale work are deftly surmounted by the composer's gift for melodic lines and rhythmic invention. Each movement has a vivid sense of color, formal logic and onward momentum so that the writing, however demanding it may be, never suggests an arid study or a shallow technical exercise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpring Music: I. Allegro Brillante\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpring Music: II. Moderato Con Moto, Sempre Grazioso\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpring Music: III. A Tempo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpring Music: IV. Comodo E Sempre Grazioso\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations For Orchestra \u0026amp;quot;Voices Of Memory\u0026amp;quot;: Theme. Grave E Sostenuto\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations For Orchestra \u0026amp;quot;Voices Of Memory\u0026amp;quot;: Var. 1, Poco Piu Mosso\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations For Orchestra \u0026amp;quot;Voices Of Memory\u0026amp;quot;: Var. 2, Poco Movimento\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations For Orchestra \u0026amp;quot;Voices Of Memory\u0026amp;quot;: Var. 3, Allegro Vivo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations For Orchestra \u0026amp;quot;Voices Of Memory\u0026amp;quot;: Var. 4, Molto Tranquillo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations For Orchestra \u0026amp;quot;Voices Of Memory\u0026amp;quot;: Var. 5, Allegro Vigoroso\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations For Orchestra \u0026amp;quot;Voices Of Memory\u0026amp;quot;: Var. 6, Andante Molto Sostenuto\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations For Orchestra \u0026amp;quot;Voices Of Memory\u0026amp;quot;: Var. 7, Vivace Assai\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations For Orchestra \u0026amp;quot;Voices Of Memory\u0026amp;quot;: Var. 8, Solenne, Tempo Giusto\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations For Orchestra \u0026amp;quot;Voices Of Memory\u0026amp;quot;: Var. 9, Movimentato E Misterioso\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations For Orchestra \u0026amp;quot;Voices Of Memory\u0026amp;quot;: Var. 10, Finale. Molto Moderato\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolo Violin Sonata: I. Scena\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolo Violin Sonata: II. March-Burlesque\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolo Violin Sonata: III. Tombeau\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolo Violin Sonata: IV. Flight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46987255677149,"sku":"5020926038524","price":145.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3770631-2536570.jpg?v=1762932452","url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/products\/maw-bbc-national-orch-of-wales-boughton-spring-music-voices-of-memory","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}