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Austrian Premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth's Locke's Theatre

Apr. 01, 2019

Austrian Premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth's <em>Locke's Theatre</em>

On April 11, Ryan Wigglesworth's Locke's Theatre recieves its Austrian premiere with the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the composer conducting. Wigglesworth describes his inspirations for Locke's Theatre:

"Locke’s Theatre, an orchestral work in three short movements, takes as its departure point incidental music written for Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" by the seventeenth-century English composer Matthew Locke. Aspects of Locke’s idiosyncratic and daringly advanced harmonic and rhythmic language were to be adopted (some might say perfected) by his younger friend and protégé Henry Purcell. But it is the very rawness and directness of Locke’s theatre music that I wished to acknowledge and emulate. In each of my work's three movements – entitled respectively ‘The First Music’, ‘Rustic Music’, and ‘Curtain Music (with Storm)’ – the baroque originals, though very often submerged, remain a constant, shadowy presence. Locke’s Theatre was commissioned by the Aldeburgh Festival to mark the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth."


Listen to "Eurydice to Orpheus" from Ryan Wigglesworth's Echo and Narcissus (2014) here:


("Eurydice to Orpheus" from Echo and Narcissus/Ryan Wigglesworth/Hallé Orchestra/
Claire Booth, soprano/Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor)

To learn more about Ryan Wigglesworth, please visit schott-music.org.

Ryan Wigglesworth
Locke's Theatre (2013)
for orchestra
pic.2.2.3.2.cbsn-4.3.3.1-timp.4perc(glsp, vib(bow), xly, bells, tri, clash cym, 2 sus cym, Chinese cym(bow), Sizz cym, Antique cym, tam-t, clave, 4s.d., b.d., tamb, 4templeblck, 2 anvils, whip)-2hp.cel-str(12.10.8.6.6 min)
17'  

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