Romance of the Rose
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Product ID: GM1 CO011
By Michael Berkeley
Publisher:
Goodmusic
Series:
Concert Originals
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
13:00
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The Romance of the Rose was commissioned by the St.Paul's Schools' Chamber Orchestra and given its first performance at St.John's Smith Square, London on 5th November 1982, conducted by Jonathan Varcoe. The work uses material from the composer's incidental music for the BBC radio production of the French poem Romaunt de la Rose which he was composing when he received the commission.
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Composer
Michael Berkeley (1948-)
Michael Berkeley (born 29 May 1948) is a British composer and broadcaster on music.
His father was the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley.
Berkeley's compositions include an oboe concerto (1977), an oratorio Or Shall We Die? (libretto by Ian McEwan) (1982), Gethsemani Fragment (1990), Twenty-One (1991), an opera Baa Baa Black Sheep (libretto by David Malouf based on the childhood of Rudyard Kipling) (1993), Secret Garden (1997) and The Garden of Earthly Delights (1998). In 2000, Berkeley wrote his second opera, Jane Eyre (libretto also by David Malouf), which was premiered at the Cheltenham Music Festival by Music Theatre Wales and subsequently toured around the UK. In October 2009, his chamber opera For You, again with Ian McEwan as librettist, was premiered by Music Theatre Wales. The libretto to his 2013 opera Atonement, based on the novel of the same name by Ian McEwan, will be written by Craig Raine.[
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