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Royal Winter Music, Sonatas 1 & 2 [set]

HENZE, Hans Werner

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Author: HENZE, Hans Werner
Editor: BREAM, Julian
Type: Book Only
Language: English/German
Instrumentation: Solo Guitar
Skill Level: Advanced
Pages: 36+24
Availability: Available
Stock Reference: GA4673
WAS: £37.00
NOW ONLY! £32.50 (No VAT)

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Hans Werner HENZE

Royal Winter Music Sonatas 1 & 2 (set)

First Sonata on Shakespearean Characters

(1975/6) [25:00]

i. Gloucester

ii. Romeo and Juliet

iii. Ariel

iv. Ophelia

v. Touchstone, Audrey and William

vi. Oberon

Composed for Julian Bream

Henze writes:

My idea of developing music from Richard of Gloucester's monologue 'Now is the winter of our discontent', and of generating more music from that material, was conceived during the 1960s. Ten years later it took a more concrete form, when Julian Bream suggested to me that I should write a substanial new guitar work for him. More time went by, and only having finished 'We Come to the River' could I begin to realise our plan. Then began a collaboration with the instrumentalist that went through various phases, from which I gained a more profound knowledge of the technicalities and of the sound-world of the guitar. I would even go so far as to say that this collaboration gave me a new concept of how to write for an instrument with a rich tradition. The guitar is a 'knowing' or 'knowledgeable' instrument, with many limitations but also many unexplored spaces and depths within these limits. It possesses a richness of sound capable of embracing everything one might find in a gigantic contemporary orchestra; but one has to start from silence in order to notice this: one has to pause, and completely exclude noise.
The dramatis personae of this piece enter through the sound of the guitar as if it were curtain. Through masks, voices and gestures, they speak to us of great passion, of tenderness, sadness and comedy: strange events in people's lives. Into this, the whispering voices of spirits are mingled. The epilogue is spoken by Oberon, pacified and reconciled, as though Nature had been subjected to Man.

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Royal Winter Music

Second Sonata on Shakespearean Characters

(1979) [20:00]

i. Sir Andrew Aguecheek

ii. Bottom's Dream

iii. Mad Lady Macbeth

Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream

Henze writes:

Five years after the first one, I started to write a second sonata for the guitar I loved. And not only in order to be able to maintain the overall title of the cycle (which is hereby closed) with its clear relationship to Richard III, but also because of my attachment to Shakespeare's characters, or at least some of them, whose musical portrait I also make myself into of the second sonata, which was formed quite differently, felt needy. Aguecheek is one of the favourite characters during my student days in Braunschweig. Perhaps it was not just Shakespeare, but it was also the director and the bleaching cheek of a production in the theater there, around 1943, that made me not to miss an idea of it.

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