Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra , Andrew Manze – Job, A Masque for Dancing (2022) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra , Andrew Manze – Job, A Masque for Dancing (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:19 minutes | 801 MB | Genre: Classical
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Following on from their highly acclaimed cycle of the 9 Vaughan Williams symphonies, Andrew Manze and the RLPO have recorded a spectacular Job, taken from a live performance at the famed Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool. RVW’s inspiration for Job arose from William Blake’s illustrations for The Book of Job, a collection of water colours from 1805, and the later engravings from 1822. 1928 was the centenary of Blake’s death, and RVW attempted to interest Serge Diaghilev, the foremost artistic power in the world of ballet to take it up but to no avail. The work has since become a concert piece after a handful of staged performances in the early 1930s. The score is in 9 sections telling the story of Job. The music is notable for its dramatic contrasts. The music for God being powerful and majestic, that for Satan is powerfully dissonant with a violence that foreshadows music encountered in the 4th and 6th symphonies and the piano concerto. RVW had seen service in France in the First World War, and what he saw there undoubtedly coloured his musical language, and the horrors endured by Job are depicted in some of RVVs most driven and dissonant music.

Tracklist:

1-1. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene I. Introduction – Pastoral Dance – Satan’s Appeal to God – Saraband of the Sons of God (10:33)
1-2. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene II. Satan’s Dance of Triumph (03:19)
1-3. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene III. Minuet of the Sons of Job and their Wives – Minuet of the Sons and Daughters of Job (04:38)
1-4. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene IV. Job’s Dream – Dance of Plague, Pestilence, Famine and Battle (04:15)
1-5. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene V. Dance of the Three Messsengers (05:26)
1-6. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene VI. Dance of Job’s Comforters – Job’s Curse – A Vision of Satan (05:31)
1-7. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene VII. Elihu’s Dance of Beauty and Youth – Pavane of the Heavenly Host (06:18)
1-8. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene VIII: Pavane of the Sons of the Morning – Gaillard of the Sons of the Morning – Altar Dance and the Heavenly Pavane (05:02)
1-9. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene IX: Epilogue (03:13)

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