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Sadie Harrison - An Unexpected Light      | NMC Recordings NMCD125

Sadie Harrison - An Unexpected Light

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Label: NMC Recordings

Cat No: NMCD125

Barcode: 5023363012522

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 9th April 2007

Contents

About

One of her gratifying qualities—not indispensable to a composer, but it helps—is that she likes sound. This is music that compels the attention.” Paul Griffiths, The Times
 
Australian-born Sadie Harrison has been resident in the UK since 1970 where she gained her Masters and Doctorate in Composition at Kings College, London, studying with Nicola Lefanu. Harrison has received numerous commissions, broadcasts and performances both at home and aboard, with notable successes taking place in the USA, Germany and Hong Kong.
 
The works presented on this disc have in common the use of folk music from Lithuania, the Northern Caucasus and the Near East, contrasting their melody and simplicity with a more aggressive modernist style to provide a commentary on the gradual transformation of, and struggle between, musical cultures that invokes Bartok’s treatment of his native Hungarian folksong. 
 
The works are performed by the artists for whom they were written and the recording was made in Vilnius, Lithuania.
 
Harrison has been widely praised for the fluent and thoughtful poetic language with which she writes and for the perfect balance of rhythm and lyricism which her works achieves.

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