Composer
Marangona
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Symphony Orchestra
3.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - perc(2) - hp. - pno(=cel.) - timp. - 14.12.10.8.6
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4 minutes
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Marangona was written for the London Symphony Orchestra through the LSO Discovery Panufnik Composers Scheme, supported by the Helen Hamlyn Trust.
First performance
18 March 2017
LSO St. Luke's, London, UK
London Symphony Orchestra,
François-Xavier Roth (cond.)
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An archival recording of this work is available for private use upon request. ​
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Programme Note
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Marangona and Thymiaterion are a pair of individually composed companion pieces which may be performed separately or together. Each piece is a study of bells and their timbral evolution through time. In Marangona, the first to be composed, a single bell strike has been slowed down and magnified, to explore the internal world of the bell in all its intricacies. The many different types of material in Marangona exist in different temporalities, moving at different speeds and crossing over each other. Thymiaterion, meanwhile, explores the sonic colours and cultural and emotional associations of bells, juxtaposing different materials suggestive of these qualities in rapid succession. Taking its name from an ancient Greek incense burner, it was the image of variously shaped plumes of scented smoke drifting in different directions at multiple speeds which proved most suggestive of how such sonic colours could be made to move and interact through time.
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