The Rose Lake

Michael Tippett

General Info

Year: 1991-1993
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 00:25:00

Description

Michael Tippett’s final orchestral work, The Rose Lake, was inspired by Senegal’s Lake Retba – famed for transforming through vivid shades of pink under the midday-sun. The piece explores questions that preoccupied Michael Tippett throughout his career, entrancing the listener with sonorities and techniques of non-Western cultures, Roto-toms rhythms and shifting orchestral colours.

Movement

I. Medium Fast
II. The Lake Begins to Sing
III. Fast
IV. The Lake Song Is Echoed from the Sky
V. Fast
VI. The Lake
VII. Medium Slow - Medium Fast
VIII. Medium Slow
IX. The Lake Song Leaves the Sky
X. Fast
XI. The Lake Sings Itself to Sleep
XII. Calm

World Premiere Details

Date: February 19, 1995
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Colin Davis

Instrumentation

Woodwinds

3 Flutes (3pic)
2 Oboes
English horn
2 Clarinets
2 Bassoons
Contrabass Bassoons

Brass

6 Horns
3 Trumpet
3 Trombone
1 Tuba

Percussion

Snare Drum
Bass Drum
Suspended Cymbals (Small & Large)
Castanets
Tam-tam(Small & Large)
Xylophone
Marimba
Vibraphone
Glockenspiel
Chimes
36 Roto-toms
large tuned gong

Strings

2 Harps
10 First Violins
10 Second Violins
6 Violas
6 Cellos
4 Double Bass

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