Night Song

String Orchestra

Work Details

Night Song
(1974)
WORK DURATION
6:00
WORK CODE
PEP05e
Instrumentation
String Orchestra
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Two arrangements comprise the remainder of this volume. The first is a transcription of the second movement, the Serenade, of Pruden's own String Trio. This was made for the strings of the Schola Musica (trainees of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra) at the request of their conductor Ashley Heenan. The idea of this transcription was to provide a meditative piece for a concert of New Zealand music that was eventually given in Perth during the orchestra's tour of Australia in August 1974. Pruden entitled it Night Song to conjure up a world of earthy warmth and beauty. A recording made in 1974 by the Schola Musica was released commercially in 1983. The critic Allan Francis imagined it was the kind of work "Mozart might have come to in the full development of his Serenades in the twentieth century".