John Casken
Deadly Pleasures
for Narrator and Instrumental Ensemble
Ver
PDF
John Casken
Deadly Pleasures
for Narrator and Instrumental Ensemble
- Formación Saxofón, trompeta, piano, violín y narrador
- Compositor John Casken
- Edición Partitura general
- Editorial Schott Musik
- Nº de pedido ED13530
en stock
disponible en 1-3 días laborables
IVA incluido.,
Más gastos de envío
No disponible en todos los países. Leer más
Descripción de la:
This work's title comes from DM Thomas's dramatic poem on an imagined episode in the life of Cleopatra. Cleopatra offers any three men from her royal court a night of unbridled passion, in return for which they must forfeit their lives the next morning. Three men step forward, the last of which is the son she had by her brother Ptolemy, whom she gave away at birth. Unaware that Cleopatra is his mother, he gives her wine laced with mandragora and makes his escape before daybreak. The grisly tale provided the composer many opportunities for dramatic characterisation. The use of a narrator necessitated an episodic structure in which the music captures the atmosphere suggested by the text, and mirrors the different moods as the journey unfolds and the three characters live out their different fates.