{"product_id":"1655384","title":"Bbc Symphony Orchestra  Sakari - Richard Causton: La Terra Impareggiabile [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery piece of music warps time in its own way, but Richard Causton's music does this particularly tangibly. Appropriately, the piece which first brought him major attention, The Persistence of Memory (1995), takes its title from a Salvador Dal\\xed painting of melting clocks, as if in anticipation of what was to come. This new album La terra impareggiabile, Causton's second full-length release, brings together two works from different areas of his compositional output: a large-scale orchestral work and a song cycle, both of which explore and obscure our perceptions of time and everyday reality.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIk zeg: NU (I Say: NOW) was premiered in 2019 by Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre, to critical acclaim. Inspired by the title of a book by a Dutch relative of Causton's, it reflects on a statement made by the author's ten-year-old great-nephew: 'I say now now, and a moment later it is already history'. Causton was inspired by the profundity of this metaphor for how we experience music, but also for life itself.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe piece is constructed from two contrasting musical ideas that run throughout: one extremely fast, hyperactive, and weightless; the other extremely slow, with patterns shifting almost inperceptively over time. Causton deftly holds these two temporalities at play simultaneously, pulling the ear in different directions. 'Now-ness and then-ness move in parallel in this spacious, beautifully constructed work' (Anna Picard, The Times).\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe internally complex temporal landscapes of Causton's music contrast with not just the spans of time in which they are heard, but also the durations over which they are created. The song-cycle La terra impareggiabile (The Incomparable Earth) consists of ten discrete songs which were composed between 1996 and 2007, and refined over a further decade, forming the mainstay of Causton's output during that period.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerformed by baritone Marcus Farnsworth and Huw Watkins (piano), the songs engage with ideas of love and death; two age-old themes of song cycles. Composed to poems by Sicilian-born poet Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968), the musical material of the songs captures the emotional struggle in Quasimodo's poetry. Now heard in its completion, La terra impareggiabile triumphs as one of Causton's most all-encompassing explorations of, and in, time.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Causton's debut album, Millennium Scenes (NMC D192), was released in 2014 as part of NMC's acclaimed Debut Discs series, and was named No.1 in the Sunday Times' 100 Best Records of the Year (Contemporary Music section).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIk zeg: NU\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa terra impareggiabile: I. La terra impareggiabile (The Incomparable Earth)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa terra impareggiabile: II. E la tua veste \\xe8 bianca (And Your Dress is White)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa terra impareggiabile: III. Ho una bella fanciulla (I Have a Beautiful Girl)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa terra impareggiabile: IV. Fatta buio ed altezza (Become Darkness and Height)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa terra impareggiabile: V. Rifugio d\\u2019uccelli notturni (Refuge to Birds of the Night)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa terra impareggiabile: VI. Specchio (Mirror)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa terra impareggiabile: VII. In luce di cieli (In the Light of Skies)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa terra impareggiabile: VIII. Quale dolce mela (As a Sweet Apple)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa terra impareggiabile: IX. Nel senso di morte (In the Sense of Death)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa terra impareggiabile: X. Al di l\\xe0 delle onde delle colline (Beyond the Waves of the Hills)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55126910501249,"sku":"1655384","price":16.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51_FIZLnVhL._SL1500.jpg?v=1766665681","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/1655384","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}