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(Hugh Aitken)
This piece was written for the opening concert of the
1980 White Mountains Festival, New
Hampshire,
at the request of Gerard Schwarz and was commissioned by David Dana, the
President of the White
Mountain Center. The music of Rameau that was used to
assist in writing this piece was from the operas Castor and Pollux and Les Indes Galantes with some of the music staying the same as
is was originally written and some being changed into what Hugh Aitken
describes as taking "unexpected harmonic or rhythmic turns". The piece consists of :
(i)
Overture
(ii)
Loure, Gavotte,
Air
(iii)
Prelude, Minuet, Two Airs
(iv)
Sad Preparations
(v)
Two Passepieds,
Tambourin
Seattle
Symphony Orchestra Recordings
Artek 0004 (CD:
Hugh Aitken: Aspen Concerto, Rameau Remembered, In Praise
of Ockeghem)
Conductor
- Gerard Schwarz
Flute - Scott
Goff
Sources:
1. CD - Liner Notes: Hugh
Aitken - Aspen Concerto, Rameau Remembered, In Praise
of Ockeghem
2. http://www.artekrecordings.com/artek/CD4reviews.htm
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