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- Thea Musgrave
Night Windows (2007)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
Commissioned by the International Double Reed Society
Programme Note
Walking down a darkened street it’s hard to resist looking in through lighted windows and catching a glimpse of other people’s lives. The imagination lingers…
Night Windows is the title of a painting by Edward Hopper of a scene in one such lighted window. However the scenes in this work – though reflecting something of all the loneliness in so many of the Hopper paintings – are all imaginary: highly charged emotional moments.
Loneliness: Anger: Nostalgia: Despair: Frenzy.
The work was commissioned by the International Double Reed Society and it is dedicated to Nicholas Daniel.
Programme note © 2007 Thea Musgrave
Night Windows is the title of a painting by Edward Hopper of a scene in one such lighted window. However the scenes in this work – though reflecting something of all the loneliness in so many of the Hopper paintings – are all imaginary: highly charged emotional moments.
Loneliness: Anger: Nostalgia: Despair: Frenzy.
The work was commissioned by the International Double Reed Society and it is dedicated to Nicholas Daniel.
Programme note © 2007 Thea Musgrave
Media
Night Windows: I. Loneliness
Night Windows: II. Anger
Night Windows: III. Nostalgia
Night Windows: IV. Despair
Night Windows: V. Frenzy
Guy Porat - Oboe and Franca Bertoli Cividino - Piano
Scores
Score sample
Reviews
With its sure-footed gestural pacing, Thea Musgrave's elegantly taut music is thoroughly absorbing ... Each of its five movements captures a mood and ... it's all captured in natural sound.
29th July 2013
...hauntingly beautiful...
14th March 2011
Having lived in the United States for many years now, it is the American artist Edward Hopper that has provided Musgrave with the inspiration for [Night Windows], although the five movements, entitled Loneliness, Anger, Nostalgia, Despair and Frenzy are the outcome of the composer’s own personal response to the lonely atmosphere inherent in many of Hopper’s paintings rather than an attempt at specific programmatic musical imagery. Either way, the impact in Birmingham Town Hall was electrifying, both emotionally and musically as Nicholas Daniel gave a powerfully wrought and charged account of Musgrave’s intense and at times deeply personal music.
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23rd July 2009
Discography
A Dramatic Journey
- LabelAlbany
- Catalogue NumberTROY1835
- SoloistRebecca Johnson (flute), Elizabeth Sullivan (oboe), Cara Chowning (piano), Jessica Lindsey (clarinet)
- Released15th September 2020
Chamber works for oboe
- LabelHarmonia Mundi
- Catalogue NumberHMU907568
- SoloistNicholas Daniel, The Chilingirian Quartet, Joy Farrall, Emer McDonough, James Turnbull, Huw Watkins
- Released1st February 2013