Halle / Sir Mark Elder - Tarik O'Regan: A Celestial Map Of The Sky [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Tarik O'Regan's title work A Celestial Map of the Sky, here performed by a children's and youth choir with the Hallxe9, is a vibrant composition with propulsive, syncopated rhythms contrasting darker moments of reflection. The piece is inspired by two woodcuts engraved by German polymath Albrecht Dxfcrer in 1515, which are amongst the oldest known printed European star charts of the northern and southern celestial hemispheres.rr

A deep-rooted interest in North African traditional music, shaped in part by Tarik's Algerian heritage, is integrated into two of the orchestral works on this album, which are influenced by and named after Algerian folk music forms: Raxef and Chaxe2bi.rr

First heard at the BBC Proms, Latent Manifest is an ingenious expansion of a single gesture from a Bach violin sonata, magnified to create an entire universe of orchestral colour. To close the album, Fragments from Heart of Darkness is a compelling orchestral reworking of thematic material from O'Regan's chamber opera Heart of Darkness, and is based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Conrad.rr

The bonus download-only track, Now fatal change, for countertenor and violin, is a reworking of material found in Chaxe2bi and is set to the same text by Nahum Tate that Purcell used for Tell me, some pitying angel.rr

This is Tarik's first album dedicated to his orchestral works.

Tarik O'Regan: A Celestial Map of the Sky

Tarik O'Regan: Latent Manifest

Tarik O'Regan: Raxef

Tarik O'Regan: Chaxe2bi

Tarik O'Regan: Fragments from Heart of Darkness

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 5023363022026

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