السير گرانڤيل بانتوك Sir Granville Bantock (ولد 1868 وتوفي 1946) مؤلف موسيقى انجليزي.

حياته

بين التدريس في جامعة برمنگهام والسفر والتجوال الكثير والترويج لعمل المؤلفين الآخرين الف بانتوك بشكل موهوب عادة اعمال للاوركسترا الكبير لكن ايضا لفرق الات النفخ النحاسية والاعمال الكورالية والحجرة ومقطوعات البيانو واغنيات الاطفال. رغم شهرته في حياته موسيقاه منذ ذلك الحين لم تعد تلاقي الترحاب. تتميز موسيقاه بهارمونيات غير معقدة ونغمة شبه شرقية اوموضوعات سلتية. القصيد السمفوني Fifine at the Fair (1901) والافتتاحية Pierrot of the Minute احيانا تعزف.

قائمة مختارة لأعماله

اوپرات

• The Pearl of Iran, a romantic opera (1894, one act, libretto by composer)
• Caedmar, a Romantic Opera (1892, one act, libretto by Frederick Corder, performed at the Royal Academy of Music, 12 July 1892, and then at Crystal Palace, 18 October 1892 and the Olympic Theatre, 25 October 1892)
• The Seal Woman, a Celtic Folk Opera (libretto by Marjorie Kennedy Fraser who also appeared in the performance as an old crone, utilising melodies drawn from Kennedy Fraser's collection of Hebridean folk songs, conducted by the composer, Birmingham Repertory Company, 27 September 1924, produced by Barry Jackson)
• Eugene Aram (opera in four acts, unfinished, libretto based on Bulwer Lytton and Thomas Hood, performed as a recitation in 1892)

أعمال كورالية

• The Fire Worshippers, dramatic cantata for solo voices chorus and orchestra (1892, after Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh, prelude conducted by August Manns at the Crystal Palace)
• Christus, a Festival Symphony in ten parts for solo voices chorus and orchestra (only two parts completed: "Christ in the Wilderness" - Gloucester Festival 1907; and "Gethsemane")
• The Time Spirit, rhapsody for chorus and orchestra (text H.F.B. i.e. Helena F. Bantock, dedicated to Herbert Brewer);
• Sea Wanderers, poem for chorus and orchestra (text H.F.B. i.e. Helena F. Bantock)
• Omar Kháyyám for solo voices chorus and orchestra - Part I (Birmingham Festival, 1906), Part II (Cardiff Festival 1907), Part III (Birmingham Festival 1909, BBCSO/Del Mar, 27 November 1968, first broadcast performance); complete (based on the third version of Fitzgerald's adaptation, London Choral Society/Arthur Fagge, Queen's Hall, February 1910; Vienna, February, 1912, BBC Symphony Orchestra under Norman Del Mar, 5–6 January 1979)
• The Song of Liberty for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (1914, for the 21st Festival of the International Labour Party, Bradford)
• The Great God Pan, a Choral Ballet for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (Sheffield Festival 1920)
• The Song of Songs for soloists, double chorus and orchestra (started in 1912 completed 1922; text: Book of Solomon, Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester, 1922, then Dorothy Silk, Frank Mullings, Norman Allin, Hallé, composer,عشرة March 1927)
• The Burden of Babylon for chorus, brass and drums (1927, text: Bible)
• The Pilgrim's Progress for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (1928, BBC commission, Queen's Hall, BBC Orchestra and Choral Society / composer, 1928-29 season, 23 November 1928; this was the first appearance for the Choral Society)
• Prometheus Unbound for chorus and orchestra (1936, text by Shelley)
• King Solomon for chorus, narrator and orchestra (1937, for the Coronation of King George VI, BBC SO/Boult,ستة May 1937)

أعمال كورالية غير مصحوبة

• Atalanta in Calydon, a Choral Symphony (A. C. Swinburne, Liverpool Welsh Choral Union, Gitana Ladies' Choir, Birkenhead and the Manchester Orpheus Glee Society, conducted by Harry Evans, 1912)
• Vanity of Vanities, a Choral Symphony (from Ecclesiastes, Welsh Choral Union, Harry Evans, Liverpool, February, 1914)
• A Pageant of Human Life, a Choral Suite (Sir Thomas More)
• The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1922, James Elroy Flecker)
• America - National Song (before 1946, Coolidge)
• Choral Hymn for a Priest's First Mass (1946)

للأصوات الرجالية

• Mass in B flat major (liturgical, 1903)
• Choral Suite from the Chinese (1914, Cranmer Byng)
• Suite from Cathay (1923, Ezra Pound)
• Choral Suite (1926, Collins)
• Seven Burdens of Isaiah (1927, Bible)
• Three Sea Songs (1920s, Henry Newbolt)
• Three Cavalier Tunes (1920s, Robert Browning)
• Three Browning Songs (1929)
• Lucifer in Starlight (George Meredith)

للأصوات السولووالأوركسترا

• Wulstan - baritone (1892, composer)
• Five Ghazals of Hafiz with a Prelude - baritone (1905, Hafiz translated E. Arnold, BBCSO/Clarence Raybould, 15 December 1937)
• Ferishtah's Fancies - tenor (1905, Robert Browning, renowned interpretation came from Frank Mullings)
• Sappho, nine fragments with a Prelude (1906, Sappho translated by Helena F. Bantock, the Prelude and three of the songs were sung by Edith Clegg with the composer conducting at an RPS concert in 1911-12, first appearances with the Society for both the composer and the singer)
• Pagan Chants - tenor (1917–18, Thorley);
• The Vale of Arden (1919, Alfred Hayes)
• The March - tenor (1919, J. C. Squire)
• The Sphinx, a cycle - baritone or contralto (1941, Oscar Wilde)
• Thomas the Rhymer (1946, traditional)

سيمفونيات

• Hebridean Symphony (1913, dedicated to Raymond Bantock, prefixed with the poem: From the lonely shieling of the misty island / Mountains divide us and the mist of seas/ Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is highland/ And we in dreams behold the Hebrides. Carnegie Trust Award, Glasgow 17 January 1916, Queen's Hall, London Symphony Orchestra/Hamilton Harty, March 1917);
• Pagan Symphony (motto: et ego in Arcadia vixi, Paris ثلاثة September 1927, BBC SO/Sir Adrian Boult,ثمانية May 1936)
• The Cyprian Goddess: Symphony No. ثلاثة (1938/39)
• Celtic Symphony for strings and six harps (1940, BBC Scottish Orch / Raybould, Home Service 24 July 1942 and Birmingham, 25 November 1967)

كونشرتو

• Elegiac Poem for cello and orchestra (1898)
• Sapphic Poem for cello and orchestra (1906, dedicated to Willi Lehmann)
• Celtic Poem for cello and orchestra (1914, arrangement of the piece for cello and piano, dedicated to Herbert Withers);
• Hamabdil for cello, harp and strings (1919, part of the Judith incidental music, dedicated to Percy Hall)
• Dramatic Poem for cello and orchestra (1941)

قصائد نغمية

• Tone Poem No. 1, Thalaba, The Destroyer (1900, after Robert Southey)
• Tone Poem No. 2, Dante and Beatrice (1901, revised 1910, Scottish Orchestra/composer, Glasgow, 24 May 1911, revised version of Dante, London Musical Festival, 1911)
• Tone Poem No. 3, later dubbed Orchestral Drama: Fifine at the Fair (1901, after Browning's Pippa Passes, Birmingham Festival, 1912, conducted by the composer, then Eighth Balfour Gardiner Concert, Queen's Hall, first performance in London, New SO/Gardiner, 18 March 1913; this was to have been given at an RPS concert in the 1911-12 season but was cancelled due to a dispute over fees. Fifine was finally given by the Society on 26 November 1917 conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham). A classic recording of Fifine was made by Beecham conducting the RPO for EMI in 1947. This recording was made under the auspices of the British Council and the Bantock Society
• Tone Poem No. 4, Hudibras (1902, after Samuel Butler)
• Tone Poem No. 5, The Witch of Atlas (1902, after Percy Bysshe Shelley, Worcester Festival)
• Tone Poem No. 6, Lalla Rookh (1902, after Thomas Moore, dedicated to Joseph Holbrooke)

أعمال اوركسترالية

• Two Orchestral Scenes from The Curse of Kehama: (1) Processional, (2) Jaga-Naut (1894, after Robert Southey, Philharmonic Society concert, 1897. The Two Scenes are all that was achieved of a project to complete a cycle of 24 tone poems based on Southey's poem)
• Symphonic Overture with organ, Saul (1894, Chester Cathedral, 1897)
• Russian Scenes, Suite of five pieces for small orchestra (1899)
• Helena: Orchestral Variations on the Theme HFB (The Helena Variations) (1899, dedicated to Helena F. Bantock. "Thoughts and reflections on some of your moods written during a wearisome absence.", Liverpool Orchestral Society, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool)
• English Scenes, Suite of five pieces for small orchestra (1900)
• Comedy Overture, Pierrot of the Minute (1908, after Ernest Dowson)
• Three Dramatic Dances (1909)
• Old English Suite for small orchestra (1909)
• Overture to a Greek Tragedy (1911, after Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus)
• From the Far West for strings (1912)
• In the Far East, Serenade for strings (1912)
• Scottish Rhapsody (1913)
• Scenes from the Scottish Highlands, Suite for strings (1913)
• The Land of the Gael, Suite for strings (1915)
• Coronach for strings, harp and organ (1918)
• Suite from Judith (1918)
• Festal Hymn of Judith (1918)
• The Sea Reivers, an Orchestral Ballad (1920, a discarded scherzo from the Hebridean Symphony)
• Caristiona, A Hebridean Seascape (1920, revised in 1943-44 with The Sea Reivers and published as Two Hebridean Sea Poems)
• Comedy Overture, The Frogs (1935, Aristophanes, Proms, Queen's Hall, 1936)
• Two Marches for the Ceylon Police (1930s?)
• Four Chinese Landscapes (1936)
• Aphrodite in Cyprus, Symphonic Ode (1938–39)
• Macbeth Overture (1940, utilising material from the incidental music)
• Comedy Overture, Circus Life (1941, adapted from the overture to the incidental music for A Marionette Show)
• Overture to a Greek Comedy, The Women's Festival (1941, Aristophanes)
• Two Heroic Ballads. 1: Cuchullan's Lament, 2: Kishmul's Galley (November 1944)
• Comedy Overture, The Birds (1946, after Aristophanes, Birmingham Town Hall, conducted by Dr Christopher Edmunds)
• The Funeral (1946)

أعمال لفرقة نحاسية

• Festival March (1914, written for Keir Hardie for the Twenty First International Labour Party Conference, Bradford)
• Oriental Rhapsody (1930, founded on the Tone Poem, Lalla Rookh, Open Championship, Eccles Borough Band/J. Dow, 1930)
• Prometheus Unbound (1933, after Shelley, arrangement of Prelude to Prometheus Unbound for chorus and orchestra, 1933 National Championship, Foden's Motor Works Band/Fred Mortimer)
• Overture to Shakespeare's King Lear (1936)
• Suite, Russian Melodies (1942–43)
• Two Irish Melodies (1942–43)
• Three Scottish Melodies (1942–43)
• Two Welsh Melodies (1942–43)
• Tir-Nan-Og, Hebridean Poem (1945, named after the family home in Birmingham, one of his last works)
• Overture, Orion

موسيقى اللحظة

• Rameses II (very early work, five acts, composer)
• Hippolytus (1908, Euripides, in Gilbert Murray's translation, London Gaiety Theatre, 1908)
• Elektra (1909, Sophocles, London Bedford College, July 1909)
• The Cortège, a Harlequinade (1918)
• Salome, The Dance of the Seven Veils (1918, Oscar Wilde, Court Theatre, London, 19 April 1918)
• Judith (1919, Arnold Bennett, Eastbourne and Kingsway Theatre, London, 1919)
• Macbeth (1926, Shakespeare, Sybil Thorndike's Prince Theatre, London production with Thorndike, Henry Ainley, Lewis Casson, and design by Frank Brangwyn, 1926, music later incorporated in Macbeth Overture)
• Fairy Gold, a Fairy Play (1938, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Hinton, July, 1938)

موسيقى الغرفة

• String Quartet in C minor (1899)
• Serenade for horns (1903)
• Pibroch, a Highland Lament for cello and harp (1917)
• Hamabdil for cello and piano (1919)
• Viola Sonata in F major (1919, To Colleen)
• Fantastic Poem for cello and piano (1924)
• Sonata in G minor for solo cello (1924, dedicated to Cyril Cope)
• Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major (1929, dedicated to Albert Sammons)
• Pagan Poem for flute and piano (1930)
• Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major (1932, dedicated to Arthur Caterall)
• A Chinese Mirror for string quartet (1933, arrangements from the Chinese Poems, first set)
• Viola Sonata in B minor
• Cello Sonata No. 1 in B minor (1940)
• Violin Sonata No. ثلاثة (1940)
• Cello Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor (1945)
• Dramatic Poem for cello and piano (1945)

موسيقى البيانو

• Suite, a Marionette Show (1918)
• Three Scottish Scenes (1919)
• Lalla Rookh, Tales and Dances (1919)
• The Cloisters at Midnight (New College, Oxford, 1920)
• Arabian Nights (1920, seven Pieces, dedicated to Gustav Holst)
• Miniatures (twelve pieces)
• Phantoms (1934)
• Nine Dramatic Poems (1935, Browning)

أغاني

• Songs of the East (Helena Bantock) and many others

الهامش

المصدر

dk eywitness companions classical music

وصلات خارجية

• Free scores by Granville Bantock at the International Music Score Library Project
• Bantock's composer page at The Lied and Art Song Texts Archive provides texts of his settings (with translations in various languages).
• Bantock picture
• Bantock Society
• An Introduction to the Life and Work of Sir Granville Bantock, Vincent Budd
• Bantock on Hyperion Records
• Searchable archive of articles and reviews in the Gramophone magazine
• Archival material relating to گرانڤيل بانتوك listed at the UK National Register of Archives
• Performance of Sapphic Poem for cello and orchestra