Bliss: Miracle in the Gorbals

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Things to Come was as innovative a score as Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky, a couple of years later; the decision was made to involve Bliss at an early stage in 1934 so that almost abstract action sequences from H.G Wells's scenario--the attack on the Moon Gun, for example--were shot in the knowledge of the music that would accompany them. The reconstructed version of the concert suite given here, in a vigorous performance by Christopher Lyndon-Gee and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, omits the popular "March". The 1944 ballet Miracle in the Gorbals illustrates its scenario of a Christ-like stranger who raises a suicide from the dead and is killed by local thugs with tight rhythms in the action sequences and loud gloomy atmospheric chords interrupted by plaintive woodwind when depicting the slums; Lyndon-Gee is particularly moving in a mother's lullaby and the ecstatic drum-driven dance of the dead girl. Discourse for Orchestra is one of Bliss's powerfully cerebral late scores, a symphonic "dissertation" with "a few anecdotes and small digressions"--Lyndon-Gee makes a case for the score's essential passionate unity. --Roz Kaveney

Number of Discs: 1

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