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Sarah Leonard – Joe Cutler: Elsewhereness (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:56 minutes | 1009 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © NMC Recordings
Joe Cutler’s debut portrait album Bartlebooth was released on NMC in 2008 and was one of Gramophone Magazine’s Top 20 Releases of the Year. His music has been described as ‘propulsive’ (BBC Music Magazine), ‘alluring’ (Scotsman), ‘neurotic’ (Re-Diffusion) and ‘the best thing to come out of Neasden since Twiggy’ (Gramophone). Released to mark Joe’s 50th birthday, this album features six works, all with typically wild and amusing titles that make you curious to find out more. Take Karembeu’s ‘Guide to the Complete Defensive Midfielder,’ for example, a work that combines influences from jazz, contemporary classical, and post-minimalism, inspired by YouTube videos of the French footballer Christian Karembeu demonstrating the importance of short passing and the combination of movement and control. There’s also ‘McNulty,’ a piece commissioned by the Fidelio Trio in 2016, that gets some inspiration from a deeply flawed character of that name in the American TV drama The Wire. ‘Elsewhereness,’ an occasional piece, written for the opening of the newly built Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, is performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra under conductor Mirga Grazinytè-Tyla (Music Director of City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra). It explores ‘the metaphysics of place, of moving from one building as it is dismantled to the new one as it rises from its foundations’. In ‘Akhmatova Fragments,’ written for soprano Sarah Leonard, he captures the fleeting moods of the poems beautifully. The two remaining pieces For Frederic Lagnau and Sikorski B are named after two composers who have been a great influence on Cutler. They are performed by Workers Union Ensemble and Cutler’s collective Noszferatu respectively.
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Michael Gielen, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Leonard – Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi, I/17b & Other Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:33 minutes | 593 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orfeo
5th instalment of the Michael Gielen / ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna series on Orfeo. What makes Olivier Messiaen’s œuvre so special is, to a great extent, his ability to coalesce various influences, inspirations, and convictions into a wholly individual and perfectly coherent musical language. This includes the development of the modal harmonies of earlier centuries as much as it does an engagement with rhythms from non-European traditions. The wealth of colors in his works stems, in part, from Messiaen’s synaesthetic ability to perceive chords as various shapes and colors. As an enthusiastic ornithologist, he spent much time in nature, notating birdsong and then working those, in stylized form, into his compositions. But most importantly, Messiaen’s work is governed by his profound faith. Messiaen once said of himself that he didn’t primarily see himself as a composer but as an “ornithologist and rhythmist”. Captured in 1991 and 1996, remastered from original ORF archive tapes.
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