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Amarantos

for nine players
9 players
Edition: Performance material

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Description

The Greek word ’amarantos’ means ‘everlasting’ or ‘unfading’, and the title was suggested by the amaranthine flowers in E.E.Cummings’ sonnet ’this is the garden’, where the flowers stand ’enraptured’ when, ’in other lands … and on Death’s blade lie many a flower curled’. Another important image is that of ’pursed lips [blowing] upon cool flutes within wide glooms’, a remarkable idea that was responsible for the work’s coda in which the alto flute plays a prominent role.
John Casken

Orchestral Cast

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Title:
Amarantos
for nine players
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1977 - 1978
Duration:
16 ′
World Premiere:
December 12, 1978 · London (UK)
King's College
Conductor: Peter Eötvös · London Sinfonietta

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the BBC
Series:

Technical Details

Product number:
LSL 1293-01

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Performances

Set Ascending Direction
  • Amarantos
    Conductor: Jeremy Haladyna
    March 16, 2006 | Santa Barbara, CA (United States of America) , University of California
  • Amarantos
    Conductor: Clark Rundell
    May 29, 2003 | Hope at Everton, Liverpool (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , The Cornerstone
  • Amarantos
    Conductor: David Porcelijn
    Orchestra: Noordhollands Philharmonisch Orkest
    November 17, 1996 | Haarlem (Netherlands) , Concertgebouw
  • Amarantos
    Orchestra: University of Manchester Students
    October 1, 1986 | Manchester (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
  • Amarantos
    Orchestra: University of Keele Students
    May 1, 1986 | Keele (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
  • Set Ascending Direction

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