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The Rose Lake

A song without words for orchestra
orchestra
Edition: Performance material

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Description

‘During a holiday in Sengal, late in 1990, we were recommended to visit a small lake, known as Le Lac Rose, where at midday the impact of the sun was such as to transform its whitish green colour to whitish pink […]. As things turned out we reached Le Lac Rose at midday, just in time to see it turn a marvellous translucent pink. The sight of it triggered a profound disturbance within me: the sort of disturbance which told me that the new orchestral work had begun.’ Michael Tippett

Like Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony or Debussy’s La Mer, The Rose Lake is concerned with expressions of feeling rather than description. It is Michael Tippett’s last orchestral work and is a shimmering, singing, ecstatic response in musical terms to the visual transformation that he had witnessed. His deep, lifelong relationship with the natural world and its luminous power finds a distilled essence in The Rose Lake.

Orchestral Cast

3(3pic).2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn-6.3.3.1-4perc(glsp, xyl, vib, mar, tub bells, 2sus cym, gong, 2tam-t, s.d, b.d, 36r.toms, cast)-2hp-str(10.10.6.6.4 minimum)

More Information

Title:
The Rose Lake
A song without words for orchestra
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1991 - 1993
Duration:
25 ′
World Premiere:
February 19, 1995 · London (UK)
Barbican
Visions of Paradise Festival
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis · London Symphony Orchestra

Commissioned work :
Commissioned jointly by the London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the 90th birthday of Sir Michael Tippett
Series:

Technical Details

Product number:
LSL 4039-01

Performances

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  • The Rose Lake
    Conductor: Andrew Davis
    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic
    December 2, 2023 | Manchester (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , The Bridgewater Hall
  • The Rose Lake
    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis
    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
    April 17, 2019 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Barbican
    19:30
  • The Rose Lake
    Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth
    Orchestra: Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra
    November 30, 2018 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Royal Academy of Music
    13:05
  • The Rose Lake
    Conductor: Simon Rattle
    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
    April 22, 2018 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Barbican
    19:00
  • The Rose Lake
    Conductor: Andrew Davis
    Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra
    April 20, 2006 | Toronto, ON (Canada) , Roy Thomson Hall
    20.00 h
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