Antarctica : suite for guitar & orchestra by Nigel Westlake скачать в хорошем качестве

Antarctica : suite for guitar & orchestra by Nigel Westlake

Sernancelhe International Guitar Festival (2008) Beiras Philharmonic Orchestra Directed by Vasco Pearce de Azevedo Guitar: Hugo Simões 1. The last place on Earth 2. Wooden ships 3. Penguin ballet 4. The ice core/Finale. AntarcticaThe score of Antarctica was originally composed for the 1991 Imax movie Antarctica, directed by JohnWeiley. Since then it is estimated to have been viewed by over 4 million people annually in the US, Europeand Asia. 20,000 km of the Antarctic were covered during the shooting of the film, over three year period. In1992, as part of the ABC’s 60th birthday celebrations, Westalke was commissioned to write a guitar concertofor John Williams and the TSO. To complete the commission, Westlake returned to the first sketches hemade for the film Antarctica, which had been originally intended for solo guitar and orchestra. (Weiley didnot consider the guitar powerful enough to evoke the imagery so Westlake used cello instead in the filmscore). In the suite for guitar and orchestra, Westalke reworked some of the original score for guitar as well 2as incorporating new material. The themes of the film focus on the desolation and grandeur of the pole, thelife it sustains, and the impact that we humans are having on this planet. These are reflected very strongly inWestlake’s music.Weiley describes Antarctica as a noisy place - he talks about the sound of generators and motors, but whenthe noise stops, he says “... there is a kind of epiphany. You are here. That’s when the music starts”.