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´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
16 Feb 2023, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
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´óÏó´«Ã½ NOW 2022-23 Season Digital Concerts: Alexander Goehr

´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales
Digital Concerts: Alexander Goehr
19:30 Thu 16 Feb 2023 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
´óÏó´«Ã½ NOW and Mark Lewis Jones perform the World Premiere of Alexander Goehr's The Master Said
´óÏó´«Ã½ NOW and Mark Lewis Jones perform the World Premiere of Alexander Goehr's The Master Said

Digital Concert: World Premiere of Alexander Goehr's The Master Said

The Master (Confucius) does not ‘know’, but seeks to learn from antiquity. He does not memorize a great number of different things, but seeks their underlying unity. This all makes him, in his estimation, fit to teach others. He will offer them one corner and expect them to deduce the other three (of the square). He performs on a kind of stone drum. A passer- by comments the way the music expresses feelings, but he scorns its one-sided obstinacy.

I composed this as a set of elaborations on different aspects of an idea. The inspiration is partly Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, similarly seven adagios for chamber orchestra, followed by a brief allegro. There are in the Haydn (and I hope in my piece) ‘feelings’ and possibly one-sided obstinacy.

Programme note © Alexander Goehr