AJ Glueckert: Three Orchestral Preludes for Oedipus Rex By - COMPACT DISCS

AJ Glueckert: Three Orchestral Preludes for Oedipus Rex By - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Three Orchestral Preludes for Oedipus Rex By

Artist:

AJ Glueckert

Label:

Dynamic

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

8007144079819

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2023-07-21

Number of Discs:

1

Both Pizzetti and Stravinsky were drawn to the subject of Oedipus Rex, but in very different contexts. The 24-year-old Pizzetti was commissioned to write Three Orchestral Preludes for use in a theatrical production. He wrote with an austere sense of orchestral colour, devoid of impressionism that favours the vaguely archaic, with modal inflections. Stravinsky's opera-oratorio was written in his neo-Classical style, with a central role for narrator. In a stark, stylised and formal setting, the use of Latin, and Stravinsky's instruction for the leading characters to wear masks, add timeless, impersonal elements to a work that culminates in catharsis

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