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Michael Tippett : Byzantium - Symphony No.4 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Georg Solti (1991)

20th Century Music | Orchestral Music | Vocal Music | Language: English | Decca 433 668-2 | 1993

It's a Finnwake personal rip (september 2010): 1 zip file with the 12 tracks on ape files (compressed from the original wave files), the 24 page booklet (in English, German, French, Italian), plus front, back front and back covers.

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Michael Kemp Tippett (London, january 2, 1905 - january 8, 1998), British composer and teacher.

After literary studies, he began to study at Royal College of Music: composition with Charles Wood, counterpoint with R.O.Morris and conducting with Adrian Boult and Malcolm Sargent. Tippett was regarded by many as an outsider in British music, a view that may have been related to his conscientious objector status during World War II. His pacifist beliefs led to a prison sentence during the war: in 1943, at the height of the war, he was summoned to appear before a British government tribunal to justify his conscientious objector status. Instead of receiving an absolute exemption, he was ordered to do full-time farm work. However, Tippett refused to comply with this ruling and was subsequently imprisoned for three months at HMP Wormwood Scrubs.

For many years his music was considered ungratefully written for voices and instruments, and therefore difficult to perform. An intense intellectual, he maintained a much wider knowledge and interest in the literature and philosophy of other countries (Africa, Europe) than was common among British musicians. His (sometimes quirky) libretti for his operas and other works reflect his passionate interest in the dilemmas of human society and the enduring strength of the human spirit. Tippett was never a prolific composer, and his works, completed slowly, comprised five string quartets, four concerti, four symphonies, five operas and a number of vocal and choral works. His music is typically seen as falling into four distinct periods. The first period (1935–47) includes the first three quartets, the Concerto for Double String Orchestra, the oratorio A Child of Our Time (written to his own libretto at the encouragement of T. S. Eliot and first performed by Morley College Choir) and the First Symphony. This period is characterised by strenuous contrapuntal energy and deeply lyrical slow movements. The second period, from then until the late 1950s, includes the opera The Midsummer Marriage, the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli (one of his most oft-performed works), the Piano Concerto, and the Second Symphony; this period features rich textures and effervescent melody. The third period, the 1960s and early '70s, is in stark contrast, and is characterised by abrupt statements and simplicity of texture, as in the opera King Priam, the Concerto for Orchestra and the Second Piano Sonata. The fourth period is a rich mixture of all these styles, using many devices, such as quotation (from Beethoven and Musorgskij, among others). The main works of this period were the Third (1972) and Fourth (1977) Symphonies, the operas The Ice Break and New Year, and the large-scale choral work The Mask of Time.

Byzantium originated as the central part of a three-movement song-cycle for soprano and orchestra which Tippett formulated around the mid-1980s- Before long, however, the composer realised that his setting of W.B.Yeats's eponymous poem (dating from 1930) would seem disproportionately large-scale in such a context; so he abandoned the cycle, deciding to make the Yeats setting a composition in its own left. Begun in January 1989 and completed in December the same year, Byzantium was what Tippett provided in response to a request from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a work to mark their centenary in 1991. The work received two "first" performances, in Chicago (April 11, 1991) and New York (April 15, 1991), with Faye Robinson and sir Georg Solti.

Also the Fourth Symphony was commissioned by Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Tippett completed it in 1977.

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Michael Tippett (1905-1998)

Byzantium, for soprano and orchestra (1989-1990) * **

[1] The unpurged images of day recede (5'45")

[2] Before me float an image, man or shade (4'38")

[3] Miracle, bird or golden handiwork (3'57")

[4] At midnight on the Emperor's pavement (6'10")

[5] Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood (6'24")

Symphony No.4 (1977)

[6] Tempo 1 (3'33")

[7] fig.21 (4'10")

[8] fig.52 (7'06")

[9] fig.78 (3'11")

[10] fig.100 (3'30")

[11] fig.139 (4'00")

[12] fig.160 (5'11")

* Text by William Butler Yeats

** Faye Robinson, soprano

Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Georg Solti

Recorded: New York, Carnegie Hall, April 15-18, 1991, live (Byzantium); Chicago, October 1979 (Symphony)

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