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- Judith Weir
The King of France (1993)
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Programme Note
I once made some transcriptions of Spanish/Arabic folk music for a theatre piece about the Crusades. One of these tunes has haunted me ever since - EL REY DE FRANCIA, sung by Sephardic Jews at the time of their exile.
The King of France is a set of variations on this tune. Although the musical processes are abstract ones, there is perhaps a hint of the tune's Spanish background in the dry, brittle textures of some of the later variations. The piece lasts about eight minutes.
The King of France was written for Susan Tomes in 1993.
© Judith Weir
The King of France is a set of variations on this tune. Although the musical processes are abstract ones, there is perhaps a hint of the tune's Spanish background in the dry, brittle textures of some of the later variations. The piece lasts about eight minutes.
The King of France was written for Susan Tomes in 1993.
© Judith Weir
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The King of France
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Only a handful of senior European composers is heard with any frequency in the states, so Cube's opening concert of the South Loop New Music Festival at Curtiss Hall Friday came as a welcome sampler of modern European music.
Big names were not absent. Judith Weir's piano work 'The King of France' employed Spanish/Arabic folk music, balancing inventive craftmanship with a bracing improvisatory sensibility.
Big names were not absent. Judith Weir's piano work 'The King of France' employed Spanish/Arabic folk music, balancing inventive craftmanship with a bracing improvisatory sensibility.
11th April 2005
Discography
- LabelCollins Classics
- Catalogue NumberCD14532
- EnsembleDomus
- SoloistWilliam Howard / Petra Casen
- LabelNMC
- Catalogue NumberNMC D090
- EnsembleSchubert Ensemble
- SoloistWilliam Howard, Susan Tomes, Petra
