Stravinsky : The Rakes Progress: Vocal Score
Product Specs
- Product Number: M060026850
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Barcode: 9790060026850
- Arrangement: Vocal SATB & Piano
Product Specs
German edition: Schroeder, Fritz
Author of original text: Auden, Wystan Hugh
Author of original text: Kallman, Chester
Piano reduction: Spinner, Leopold
Composer: Stravinsky, Igor
Languages german, english
One inspiration for this "moral fable" in "Italian-Mozartian" style ("I will lace each aria into a tight corset") was Hogarth's series tracking the downfall of Tom Rakewell, who squanders his inheritance on women, gambling, and drink and dies in a madhouse. In Auden's much admired libretto, Tom is equipped with a sporadic moral conscience, as well as a satanic alter ego: Nick Shadow. As in Oedipus Rex, man is here a victim of implacable forces that control and crush him. But Anne Trulove, steadfast in devotion, rescues Tom's soul. The pervasive detachment of Stravinsky's score doubles the pathos of Anne's final lullaby.
Stravinsky's three act opera, The Rake's Progress, adapts the 18th-century series of paintings of the same name by William Hogarth. This edition contains the Vocal score with Piano accompaniment.
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