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Judith Weir - The Welcome Arrival of Rain | NMC Recordings NMCD137

Judith Weir - The Welcome Arrival of Rain

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Label: NMC Recordings

Cat No: NMCD137

Barcode: 5023363013727

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 4th February 2008

Contents

Artists

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Martyn Brabbins

Works

Weir, Judith

Forest
Heroic Strokes of the Bow
Moon and Star
Natural History
The Welcome Arrival of Rain

Artists

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Martyn Brabbins

About

This important new recording is the first ever CD of Judith Weir’s major orchestral works. Weir is one of Britain’s most successful contemporary composers, achieving popularity with audiences and critics alike. She studied composition with John Tavener whilst at school in London, and at Cambridge University with Robin Holloway.
Weir’s music — often inspired by her love of nature and her interest in the world around her — is fresh, intelligent, approachable and evocative. Natural History — which she describes as a Taoist Carnival of the Animals — is set to ancient Chinese texts on horses, birds, fish and men and the music hints at an oriental and exotic world and in Moon and Star Weir uses the instruments' highest and lowest registers to portray the vast expanse of our universe.

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