{"product_id":"0730099469821-bliss-miracle-in-the-gorbals","title":"Bliss: Miracle in the Gorbals","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAMAZON \u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40737886601313,"sku":"0730099469821","price":5.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_10486831_19675735_20241209083042.jpg?v=1733816286","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/0730099469821-bliss-miracle-in-the-gorbals","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}