Shakespeare Pictures

在擔任皇家莎士比亞劇團音樂總監和室內作曲家期間，奈傑爾-赫斯為 20 多部作品譜寫了音樂。赫斯從三部作品中選取了音樂，組成了一個 12 分鐘的套曲《莎士比亞的畫像》。它以《無事生非》喧鬧的序曲開始，隨後是《冬天的故事》中描繪美麗雕像的對比鮮明的慢板樂章，然後是《元老院的入口》，展現了凱撒羅馬的巨大盛況。這部作品非常適合演奏過並喜歡赫斯作品《東海岸圖景》的樂隊。這部管樂組曲於 2008 年受伯明罕交響管樂團委託創作。現在，原曲經過擴充和重新配器，形成了新的交響管樂團三樂章組曲。

作曲家: Hess, Nigel
樂器: Wind Band
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
While Music Director and House Composer for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Nigel Hess wrote music for over twenty productions. Hess has taken music from three works to form a 12-minute suite called Shakespeare Pictures. It begins with the boisterous overture to Much Ado About Nothing, followed by a contrasting slow movement depicting the beautiful statue from A Winter’s Tale before displaying huge pomp of Caesar’s Rome with The Entry to the Senate. This work is ideal for bands that have played and enjoyed Hess’s work East Coast Pictures. This wind band suite was commissioned in 2008 by Birmingham Symphonic Winds. The original music is now expanded and re-orchestrated to form a new three-movement suite for symphonic wind orchestra.