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- Richard Rodney Bennett
Spells (1974)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with funds from the Gulbenkian Foundation
- 2+pic.2+ca.2+bcl.2+cbn/4.3.2+btbn.1/timp.3perc/hp.pf(cel)/str
- SATB
- soprano
- 36 min
- Kathleen Raine
- English
Media
Spells: No. 1. Spell against sorrow
Spells: No. 2. Spell of safekeeping
Spells: No. 3. Spell to bring lost creatures home
Spells: No. 4. Spell of sleep
Spells: No. 5. Love spell
Spells: No. 6. Spell of creation
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Reviews
It's a beautifully constructed sequence that moves steadily in its choice of poems from the universal to the personal, with spiraling soprano lines and choral writing that never lapses into the lingua franca of 20th-century British choral music. At times it suggests an unlikely fusion between Britten and Boulez, but Bennett was identifiably himself, whatever he did.
27th November 2016
Discography
- LabelNMC
- Catalogue NumberD085
- ConductorSir David Willcocks
- EnsembleBach Choir / Philharmonia Orchestra
- SoloistJane Manning, soprano
