Bantock, Granville

Bantock, Granville – Thalaba the Destroyer, Tone Poem No. 1

(b. London, 7 August 1868; d. London, 16 October 1946)

Tone Poem No. 1

Introduction. The powers of evil: Mesto e lugubre p.2
Zeinab’s theme: Molto più lento p.5
Thalaba’s theme: Allegro con fuoco p.13
Oneiza’s theme: Moderato sostenuto p.24
Thalaba’s fatal languor: Poco lento p.38
Wedding and brief happiness of love: Meno mosso p.58
Death of Oneiza: Appassionato con dolore p.71
Thalaba wanders desolately amid the tombs: Molto lento p.74
Thalaba sets out again on his mighty quest: Poco allegro p.83
Thalaba’s death, and reprise of Oneiza’s theme: Poco più lento p.99
Evil lost for ever
The last ecstasy of faith and love: Pesante e risoluto p.105

Granville Bantock wrote some of the largest-scale orchestral and choral works in the British repertoire and explored non-European cultures, but he was also a practical musician, introducing many to the world of music for the first time, and to music they had probably never heard before. His early career was not easy; he suffered many disappointments and frustrations on leaving the Royal Academy of Music in 1893. However, his fellow student, Henry Wood, promoted his music, and very slowly his reputation gained momentum. But Bantock nevertheless had to earn money by conducting light opera for a few years, although he eventually secured the post of conductor of the Tower Orchestra at New Brighton. Through this he met Elgar and other important figures, and in 1900 he was appointed Principal of the Midland School of Music at Birmingham. …

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