Wallace: Creation Symphony & Other Orchestral Works
1/26/2024, 8 Tracks, 1:13:33
Featuring
Martyn Brabbins
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
William Wallace
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Composer's Artistic Vision
William Wallace's musical style is characterized by high German romanticism, uniting passion and philosophy, with chromatic harmonies and organic thematic development.
Recording & Production
This recording includes William Wallace's Creation Symphony, which had not been performed in nearly a hundred years prior to this album.
Composer Biography
William Wallace was one of six 'rebels' who challenged the conservative music schools of his time, alongside his younger contemporary Bantock.
Recording & Production
The Prelude to The Eumenides and three movements from the Pelléas and Mélisande Suite by William Wallace are presented in their first-ever recording on this album.
Compositional Technique
William Wallace embedded numerological values of his and his wife Ottilie MacLaren's names into the structure of his Creation Symphony.
Composer Biography
William Wallace, the composer, initially studied medicine at Glasgow University and specialized in ophthalmology before turning to music.
Composition History
William Wallace's Pelléas and Mélisande Suite, first performed in 1900, predates Debussy's opera and Sibelius's suite on the same subject.
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