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Brian Elias - The House That Jack Built | NMC Recordings NMCD173

Brian Elias - The House That Jack Built

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Label: NMC Recordings

Cat No: NMCD173

Barcode: 5023363017329

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 3rd October 2011

Contents

Works

Elias
The House That Jack Built

Elias
A Talisman

Elias
Doubles

Artists

Tim Mirfin (bass-baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Jiri Belohlavek
Martyn Brabbins
Andrew Davis

Works

Elias
The House That Jack Built

Elias
A Talisman

Elias
Doubles

Artists

Tim Mirfin (bass-baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Jiri Belohlavek
Martyn Brabbins
Andrew Davis

About

The bold and dazzlingly inventive The House That Jack Built – inspired by the rumbustiousness, games and jeers of the playground – is coupled with the elaborate, intense Doubles (a large orchestral work commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra) and A Talisman, for bass-baritone and small orchestra which is based upon Hebrew text inscribed on a silver 19th century amulet - intended to protect against the Evil Eye - which was given to Elias's mother in 1969 by her uncle, whose family emigrated from Kurdistan to Bombay in the middle of the 19th century.

‘Purely as psychodrama, The House is gripping. But what makes it really memorable is the clarity and vigour of Elias's orchestral writing. Humming throughout with perky rhythms, never cluttered, and full of imaginative ideas (including the 21st-century equivalent of the Pizzicato Polka), it struck me as among the best things that the 53-year old composer has penned.’ - The Times (2002)

Brian Elias studied at London’s Royal College of Music with Humphrey Searle and Bernard Stevens, and privately with Elisabeth Lutyens. He was born in Bombay (Mumbai) and lived there until the age of thirteen. His ballet The Judas Tree won an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Work and an International Emmy Award for Performing Arts. Doubles was awarded the Best Orchestral prize at the 2010 British Composer Awards.

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