Maw, Nicholas: Concert Suite from Sophie's Choice
sheet music
Setting: Orchestra
Length: 104 pages
Publisher: Faber Music
Item number: 0571522386
ISMN: 9780571522385
Mostly formed out of the orchestral interludes from Nicholas Maw's opera Sophie's Choice, this 22-minute suite's musical elements are not always in the same order as they appear in the opera - but rather are arranged in a way which gives a satisfactory form over this much shorter time span. Like Alban Berg's Lulu Suite, Maw's contains one (optional) vocal movement for soprano - here Sophie's final aria where, writing in a letter to her lover, she communicates her terrible despair about her past in Auschwitz.
‚An instant classic, a piece that will immediately touch and move people'.
Sir Simon Rattle on Sophie's Choice
‚An instant classic, a piece that will immediately touch and move people'.
Sir Simon Rattle on Sophie's Choice
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