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Composer: McPHERSON, Gordon ((b.1965)) |
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ID: LIR003
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: British Composer Series
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
3 -10 Paul Sherman, double bass / Louise Mott, mezzo-soprano
This CD additionally features the voice of Louise Mott in The Sibyl of Cumae, a brilliant young singer who has already sung principal roles with Almeida, Opera Group, ENO, WNO and BBC Proms. Her recordings include Marthe in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust under Philippe Herreweghe for Harmonia Mundi. The double-bassist Paul Sherman, principal with ECO and Opus 20, also joins the group for this work.
Each work occupies its own highly individual territory. But the works have in common an impulse to embrace wider, non-musical concerns and programmes. For James Wood, Crying Bird, Echoing Star brings together two long-held fascinations, namely birdsong and the star patterns of the constellations. Gordon McPherson writes that his piece is a call to young composers to ask themselves what’s really important to their own writing. Edward Dudley Hughes’s work evokes the semi-mythical Sibyl of Cumae’s possession by the god Apollo and her arduous spirit journeys to the underworld. Rowland Sutherland’s work explores the sounds and colours of distant places as they invigorate the imagination. Finally, Rolf Hind’s The Horse Sacrifice is inspired by a crucial and elaborate part of Vedic (early Hindu) ritual.
The New Music Players was founded by the composer Edward Dudley Hughes and is one of the most engaging of the new independent contemporary classical ensembles. It has made several commercial CDs, worked with leading composers, broadcast many times on BBC Radio 3, appeared at major UK Festivals, toured in Europe and is currently Ensemble-In-Residence at the University of York.
The recording and commissions were supported by a grant from the Foundation for Sport and the Arts. |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MSVCD92041
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Flute
The trio (Laura Bailie, Janet Larsson and Ruth Morley) are joined by percussionist Tim Williams on this disc of chamber music by four very different composers with individual takes on contemporary music. This is a unique and wonderful sound unlike any other in modern music.
tracks: Thea Musgrave: Voices from the Ancient World Gordon McPherson: Three Minute Philosophy Edward McGuire: Celtic Knotwork Django Bates: Bird Tableau |
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ID: MSVCD92073
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
"Detours" is inspired by the composer's personal memories and reflections concerning cars. It draws on sources and references of a distinctly non-classical nature, but cannot in any way be called "crossover" - more it is a fusion of genres, as are the other works, brilliantly performed by Psappha.
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Detours: Echo's Tape Memory Crash Only the Driver Deserves to be Saved Lorelie Phoenix Maps and Diagrams of our Pain Born of Funk / The Fear of Falling |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
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