Asheim - Hogsongen (Song of Songs); Tchaikovsky - Serenade
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Label: Lawo Classics
Cat No: LWC1191
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 24th January 2020
Contents
Works
Hogsongen: Eg sov, men hjartet vaker (The Song of Songs: I slept, but my heart was awake)Serenade for strings in C major, op.48
Artists
Ensemble AllegriaConductor
Petronella BarkerWorks
Hogsongen: Eg sov, men hjartet vaker (The Song of Songs: I slept, but my heart was awake)Serenade for strings in C major, op.48
Artists
Ensemble AllegriaConductor
Petronella BarkerAbout
There are those who say it originated with King Solomon; others simply call it the “Song of Songs”. No matter what, it is a magnificent celebration of love and eroticism. As a book of the Bible, it is written in a surprisingly direct first-person voice. Both he and she speak in turns, but it is the woman who leads, and it is from here we have picked the excerpts to be used in this work. Different passages, different stages of desire and attraction.
Upon completing his Serenade for Strings in the rapid movement of a few weeks, Tchaikovsky wrote in a letter: “The Serenade was composed from an innate impulse; that is, something which rises from having freedom to think and is not devoid of true worth.” Being on holiday had made him feel unwell and restless – but he found happiness again in writing this piece. Unusually happy music for a typically tragic composer. Perhaps the monumental statement represented by the opening bars and repeated at the end is indeed a kind of invocation, a framing of happiness and the idyll, as long as it lasts.
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