Luke Bedford
On Time
Short instrumentation: 2 2 2 2 - 2 2 0 0 - timp, perc, str
Duration: 13'
Text von: John Milton
Choir: SATB
Instrumentation details:
piccolo
flute
1st oboe
2nd oboe
1st clarinet in Bb
2nd clarinet in A
bassoon
contrabassoon
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
1st trumpet in C
2nd trumpet in C
timpani
percussion
violin I
violin II
viola
violoncello
contrabass
Bedford - On Time for choir and orchestra
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Luke Bedford
Bedford: On TimeOrchestration: für Chor und Orchester
Type: Dirigierpartitur
Language: Englisch (Großbritannien)
Luke Bedford
Bedford: On TimeOrchestration: für Chor und Orchester
Type: Studienpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
Language: Englisch (Großbritannien)
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Work introduction
Luke Bedford’s On Time is scored for choir and orchestra; its three movements and text are based upon Milton’s poem On Time, with which it shares its name. The new work toys with the notions of time and metre as the poem does: its opening movement has a sense of elongated ‘timelessness’ about it; its second sees a division of the choir singing parts of the text backwards as reverse phonetics, set against others singing the original text; its final movement is strongly contrasted with the first, effecting an acceleration that can be heard across the breadth of the piece.