Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony

ISBN-13: 9780198162841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 344 str.

Alain Frogley

Opis

This study, the first of its kind on a work of Vaughan Williams, traces the genesis of the composer's enigmatic final symphony as documented in the surviving manuscripts. The latter reveal an underlying program based on Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and chart the composer's struggle to find the technical means by which to realize his most complex spiritual vision.

Recenzje

Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony significantly deepens and complicates the traditional picture of a composer now seen as increasingly important. Alain Frogley's knowledge and understanding of the composer in general and of the Ninth Symphony in particular is deeply impressive, and his book is a most welcome addition to the literature.

O autorze

Lecturer in Music, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1989 Lecturer in Music, Lancaster University, 1989-94 Associate Professor of Music at University of Connecticut, Storrs, since 1994