Fortissimo Autumn 2019
The Autumn 2019 edition of the Faber Music newsletter: fortissimo!
The Autumn 2019 edition of the Faber Music newsletter: fortissimo!
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Oliver Knussen Scores from Faber Music<br />
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O Hototogisu!<br />
This exquisite ‘fragment of a Japonisme’ – premiered in 2017<br />
and conceived as a kind of double concerto for soprano, flute<br />
and ensemble of 22 players – proved to be Oliver Knussen’s<br />
final work. The 8-minute piece couches seven exquisite haiku<br />
settings in richly evocative music which incorporates signals<br />
from Japanese theatre (particularly Kabuki). It concerns<br />
the Hototogisu (or Lesser Cuckoo), a bird widely invoked<br />
in Japanese haiku poetry of the 17th-19th centuries, where<br />
the poet listens for its arrival from the mountains both as a<br />
harbinger of Summer and a voice from the land of the dead.<br />
O Hototogisu! is presented here as a typeset score with two<br />
facsimile pages of the composer’s manuscript.<br />
‘A birdsong-like flute, festooned with grace notes,<br />
frames and punctuates the tiny songs themselves,<br />
with their elaborately soaring vocal lines, while the<br />
ensemble is used with microscopic precision to apply<br />
touches of colour…’<br />
The Guardian (Andrew Clements), 26 June 2017<br />
Full Score | 0-571-54111-9) | £24.99<br />
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Written & devised<br />
by Sam Wigglesworth with<br />
contributions from Tim Brooke<br />
and Rachel Topham<br />
Designed by Sam Wigglesworth<br />
COVER IMAGE: MARTIN<br />
SUCKLING © TESSA<br />
OKSANEN<br />
Eccentric Melody<br />
Composed as a double tribute – for cellist Fred Sherry, in his 50th<br />
birthday year, to play to Elliott Carter on his 90th birthday – Oliver<br />
Knussen’s Eccentric Melody was first published in the journal Tempo in<br />
December 1998. Like many of Knussen’s works dedicated to friends,<br />
it contains a name cipher, in this case for Carter whose full name was<br />
E[lliott] C[ook] C[arter Jr]. Fred Sherry comments: ‘Carter often talked<br />
about, and composed, wide ranging melodies in which the pitches were<br />
meant to sound improvised or eccentric. I believe (but Olly never said)<br />
he was channelling the spirit of Carter in this work.’<br />
Writing to Faber Music in 2001, Knussen stated his intentions to give<br />
Eccentric Melody ‘some siblings to form a 4-or-5 movement cello suite’<br />
(he also mentioned that two movements were partly sketched in his<br />
notebooks). Sadly, that project was never realised, but we are pleased<br />
to be able to present this manuscript facsimile of Eccentric Melody as a<br />
stand-alone item.<br />
Playing Score | 0-571-54127-5 | £9.99<br />
fabermusic.com
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