BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Emily Howard: The Anvil (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Emily Howard: The Anvil (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:52 minutes | 594 MB | Genre: Classical
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The imagined sounds of mass protest run through composer Emily Howard’s and poet Michael Symmons Roberts’s The Anvil, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Manchester International Festival to mark the bicentenary of the 1819 Peterloo massacre, in which crowds protesting for universal suffrage in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, were brutally crushed.

To a solo soprano who narrates and remembers and a baritone who seems caught in the action, the work adds the immense forces of four choirs – each given music tailored to its particular capabilities, from professional to amateur – and the BBC Philharmonic to ask: what future was being forged in the tragic events that took place that day?

A second collaboration between Howard and Symmons Roberts, Elliptics, is quieter, more elegiac: a meditation on love and death, and on what we hope will survive.

Tracklist:
01. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: I. Heavy stone harvest (03:12)
02. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: II. Pelt of rough turf (01:47)
03. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: III. Battered shuttles (04:39)
04. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: IV. The Commissioner for Paving (01:07)
05. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: V. Fife drums love command liberty (01:59)
06. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: VI. A lake of hats (02:24)
07. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: VII. We walk in communion (00:58)
08. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: VIII. We ask for sustenance and suffrage (00:48)
09. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: IX. The order comes (00:25)
10. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: X. Were we quickened from brick-dust (00:45)
11. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: XI. Sabred and stabbed (02:53)
12. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: XII. The field turns inside out (04:35)
13. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: XIII.Some of our cry is their cry (03:09)
14. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: XIV. Now, when you see a blush (01:53)
15. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: XV. Ghosts conjured from cotton smoke (02:49)
16. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: The Anvil “An Elegy for Peterloo”: XVI. Our shibboleth (02:59)
17. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: I. Like a bird that has hit glass (01:12)
18. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: II. Be quiet, you say (01:54)
19. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: III. On the way, I reckoned up trios of street-lamps (01:21)
20. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: IV. Rooks wake, warn and clatter (01:16)
21. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: V. The long-gone and the not-yet-here (02:05)
22. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: VI. Full-tilt towards infinity (01:28)
23. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: VII. Night-long drive (01:50)
24. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: VIII. Houses dark and steep, oblivious (00:56)
25. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: IX. Love alone brooks resurrection (00:40)
26. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: X. Under our feet, below the sewers (01:48)
27. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: XI. Seven swans in grief (01:28)
28. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: XII. Wildfires on the bare hills (01:17)
29. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: XIII.Like a bird that has hit glass (00:52)
30. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: XIV. Beyond these walls is so much silence (00:15)
31. BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Howard: Elliptics: XV. Dusk that never blossoms. Endless vespers (05:53)

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