Bbc Symphony Orchestra Gary W - Antiarkie [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.With music that is 'anarchic and cartoonishly fun' (BBC Radio 3), Ryan Latimer's first portrait album Antiarkie is the latest in NMC Recordings' Debut Disc series.rr

As his earliest exposure to orchestral music, the playful, frenetic, visceral nature of cartoon soundtracks remains a prominent aspect of Ryan's work. The title track Antiarkie is a tribute and commentary on this characterful music with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by Pierre-Andrxe9 Valade, equipping a clattering range of percussion to achieve the effect of 'wild and irregular chaos'.rr

This child-like energy is ever-present in the piano and percussion duet Slink & Stride, commissioned and performed by Psappha. A selection of short tunes and motifs jostle and reanimate 'often subtly entwining themselves or sometimes taking more striding leaps.' (Ryan Latimer)rr

Oliver Knussen and the Royal Academy of Music's new music group Manson Ensemble take on the intricate weaving gestures of Mills Mess. An amateur juggler himself, Ryan takes the piece's name and inspiration from the juggling pattern created by Steve Mills in the 1970s. The abrupt, twitchy changes of mood and rhythm convey the heightened precariousness as the spectacle becomes more flamboyant.rr

Ryan turns to Herman Melville's classic 1851 novel Moby-Dick for his Crouch End Festival Chorus commission Frigates & Folly with the BBC Concert Orchestra and David Temple. This piece focuses on the ship's tragically optimistic Second Mate, Stubb, whose sarcastic quips and witty songs include a silly ditty making light of a looming typhoon, a surreal dream scene involving a badger-haired merman imparting important life lessons, a drinking song and a depiction of the steadfast sun amidst the chaos of the cosmos.rr

The song cycle Speaking of Letters and Dancing uses three short poems to explore the effect of distance and proximity in a personal relationship, brought to life by mezzo-soprano Rosie Middleton and Loki Ensemble with conductor Daniele Rosina. The first two movements use the texts of Polish poet and playwright Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska and explore the anticipation and anxiousness of receiving a long-awaited letter from a loved one with unexpectedly heart-breaking consequences, as well as the intimacy and joy of dancing with others. The collection concludes with Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa's refined, compact poem Summer Night which depicts an evening so still that 'even the stars, galaxies apart, might whisper intimatelyrto each other.' (Paul Conway)rr

Constructing a 'meta-ensemble' from the peculiar collection of instruments at his disposal, Divertimento, performed by Britten Sinfonia, plays with time-honoured genres with glimpses of baroque-inspired fantasias, modernist violin gestures, and deconstructed quotes from Mozart's Oboe Quartet.

Mills Mess

Frigates & Folly

Divertimento I. Scherzo

Divertimento II. Fantasia

Divertimento III. Passacaglia

Moby Dick

Speaking of Letters and Dancing I. A Letter

Speaking of Letters and Dancing II. Dancing

Speaking of Letters and Dancing III. Summer Night

Slink & Stride

Antiarkie

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 5023363026727

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