Peter Maxwell Davies: Black Pentecost & Stone Litany

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
September 9, 2014
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MAXWELL DAVIES, PETER
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bbc Philharmonic Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Jones, Wilson-Johnson
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 09, 2014
    • UPC
      747313235971
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572359
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio - Allegro molto

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    2. II. Black Star, Operation Black Star was how they described it

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Della Jones, David Wilson-Johnson

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    3. III. Bella Budge presided over a diminishing republic of hens

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Della Jones

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    4. IV. It is a pity that the whole life and economy of the island…

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Della Jones, David Wilson-Johnson

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    5. Molto lento - Andante -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    6. The Runic Alphabet: Recitativo lento -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Della Jones

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    7. Allegretto -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    8. Ingibjorg the fair widow: Andante flessibile -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Della Jones

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    9. Allegro molto -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    10. Lothbrokar's sons: Moderato -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Della Jones

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    11. Max the Mighty: Recitativo lento molto flessibile

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Della Jones

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies


Both Black Pentecost and Stone Litany share a symphonic scale and an Orkney setting. Premièred by Simon Rattle in 1982, Black Pentecost is an impassioned plea against environmental destruction, taking its words from Orcadian author George Mackay Brown’s novel Greenvoe, and cast in the form of a vocal symphony. Chamber-like restraint is matched by tense, dark writing that embraces threnody and cataclysm. Beautifully orchestrated and featuring elaborate melismas from the vocal soloist, Stone Litany, subtitled ‘Runes from a House of the Dead’, evokes the haunted landscape of a Neolithic burial mound plundered by Vikings.