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Meredith, Goehr & C Matthews: New Chamber Works | NMC Recordings NMCD239

Meredith, Goehr & C Matthews: New Chamber Works

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Label: NMC Recordings

Cat No: NMCD239

Barcode: 5023363023924

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 13th March 2020

Contents

Artists

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Aurora Orchestra
Britten Sinfonia
Nash Ensemble

Conductor

Martyn Brabbins

Works

Goehr, Alexander

after 'The Waking'

Matthews, Colin

Postludes

Meredith, Anna

Tripotage Miniatures

Artists

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Aurora Orchestra
Britten Sinfonia
Nash Ensemble

Conductor

Martyn Brabbins

About

Three influential and varied British composers across three generations have been paired with three leading British ensembles on this album of new chamber works, commissioned as part of The Radcliffe Trust's Tercentenary and recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London.

Composer Anna Meredith is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music. Her sound is frequently described as ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-defying’ and her music has been performed everywhere from the BBC Last Night of the Proms to rock and pop festivals. Tripotage Minatures is, as the title suggests, about messing about with things (Anna says ‘jiggery pokery’ is her favourite translation of the French term). Sounds change and stutter and tonal colours drain and become murky. Instruments interrupt and sound like they are trying to trip one another up.

Postludes by Colin Matthews is dedicated to his good friend, the composer Oliver Knussen, who died whilst the piece was being written in 2018. Matthews’ says he had Knussen’s Cantata for oboe quartet in his mind from the start, and this piece – written for oboe quartet plus string quartet - has a poignant, elegiac feel and the atmosphere of after-event with which the title accords.

Alexander Goehr’s after The Waking is named after a poem by Theodore Roethke, which the composer has previously set to music for two voices. This quintet, performed by the Nash Ensemble, is a fantasia in five movements on material that Goehr explains ‘wouldn’t let me go’ from the earlier work.

Reviews

There is some virtuoso writing here, especially a dazzling part for oboist Nicholas Daniel, and members of the Britten Sinfonia shine.
Financial Times

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