PROMETHEAN EDITIONS
02/2017
New music editions February 2017 We start off 2017 with three releases, all for solo or ensem-
molto finale features a rustic viola theme before the work
ble string instruments. First is Gareth Farr’s From Forgotten
builds to a frenetic close. Though not strictly programmatic,
Forests (1992) for solo harp. This work was commissioned by
Adams’ Look to the Far Horizon attempts to capture some
Carolyn Mills, principal harpist of the New Zealand Sympho-
of the atmosphere and character of the skies and seascapes
ny Orchestra, when Farr was a member of the orchestra’s
surrounding his home city of Dunedin, New Zealand, and the
percussion section. Farr has described From Forgotten Forests as an attempt to bring sonorities out of the harp that he had not heard before, with his experimentations causing him to imagine “a walk in an ancient forest inhabited by extinct birds, their unfamiliar and long-forgotten calls filling the air”. It is the alien quality of the ancient that Farr seems to channel
nearby Otago peninsula. In traversing its arc-like structure, and the contrasting sections that lie within, we find gentle clusters, close imitative writing, upper-register interruptions in biting, bracing harmony and a graceful violin tune, evoking the sights and sounds of seabirds, oscillating tides and cloud formations drifting through bleached skies.
in this mysterious work, as it dwells somewhere between consonance and dissonance, with a spacious, senza misura opening that gradually reveals its scalar material, coloured with harmonics. Eventually settling into an undulating odd-metered pattern, its elements never remain static, with
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Adams’ Look to the Far Horizon (2015). Ritchie’s wide-ranging
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String Quartet No.2 incorporates numerous stylistic influenc-
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es – the first movement is dominated by energetic compound
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meters and rhythms, while the second movement possesses
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a quiet rocking motion. Angular melodic lines contrast with a calm folk-like waltz in the third movement, and the allegro
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