Informationen zu "Overture to the Ballad Opera "The Jovial Crew""
Komponist/Autor: William Bates
Epoche: Klassik
Verlag: Edition HH
Verlagsnummer: HH623FSC
EAN: 9790708213376
ISBN: 9781914137792
Beschreibung
William Bates (c.1732–1778) was as comfortable when writing imposing fugues as he was when evoking the cheerful grace of the English country dance, and his harmonic and rhythmic invention compel admiration. These qualities are fully evident in the concise three-movement overture scored for a typical theatre orchestra including oboes and horns that he wrote as his first essay in music for the stage: the extraordinarily successful ballad opera The Jovial Crew, which, premiered at Covent Garden in 1760, held the English stage for over three decades. Much of the overture is tuneful and simple in the tradition of ballad operas, but flashes of complex counterpoint and imaginative touches in the scoring elevate it to the level of Bates’s sonatas and concertos.
