Matyas Seiber - The Joyce Settings
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Label: Lyrita
Cat No: SRCD348
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 2nd March 2015
Contents
Works
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 3 FragmentsElegy for solo viola and small orchestra
Ulysses
Artists
Alexander Young (tenor)Peter Pears (narrator)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Dorian Singers
Melos Ensemble
BBC Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
David AthertonMatyas Seiber
Works
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 3 FragmentsElegy for solo viola and small orchestra
Ulysses
Artists
Alexander Young (tenor)Peter Pears (narrator)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Dorian Singers
Melos Ensemble
BBC Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
David AthertonMatyas Seiber
About
In 1935 Seiber settled in London, where he founded the Dorian Singers and helped Francis Chagrin to found the Society for the Promotion of New Music. He taught at Morley College and privately, and his pupils included Don Banks, Peter Racine Fricker, Anthony Gilbert, Malcolm Lipkin, David Lumsdaine, Anthony Milner and Hugh Wood. Seiber stayed in touch with continental musical developments and frequently attended the International Society for Contemporary Music’s festivals, several of which featured his own compositions.
On 24 September 1960, at the age of 55, he was killed in a car crash in South Africa during a lecturing tour of the country’s universities. At the time of his tragically early death, Seiber was one of the most respected teachers of composition in Britain. His own body of work is distinguished by a natural versatility and by the wide range and eclecticism of his musical interests. It incorporates the successful pop song 'By the Fountains of Rome' (1956), which entered the top ten of the charts and won an Ivor Novello Award, and his score for the animated film 'Animal Farm' (1954), as well as numerous examples of incidental music for radio, television and the stage.
Contents:
- Ulysses: Cantata for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra (1947)
Alexander Young (tenor), London Symphony Orchestra & BBC Chorus / David Atherton
BBC Archive Performance, broadcast 21 May 1972
- Elegy for solo viola and small orchestra (1954)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Mátyás Seiber
Licensed from Decca Records
- Three Fragments from 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (1957)
Peter Pears (narrator), Dorian Singers & Melos Ensemble / Mátyás Seiber
Licensed from Decca Records
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