Martin Butler - Dirty Beasts
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Label: NMC Recordings
Cat No: NMCD212
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 22nd April 2016
Contents
Works
Dirty BeastsDown Hollow Winds
Fall
Lovesongs Waltzes
Preludes inegales
Rondes d'automne
Rumba Machine
Artists
Simon Callow (narrator)New London Chamber Ensemble
Navarra Quartet
Martin Butler (piano)
Works
Dirty BeastsDown Hollow Winds
Fall
Lovesongs Waltzes
Preludes inegales
Rondes d'automne
Rumba Machine
Artists
Simon Callow (narrator)New London Chamber Ensemble
Navarra Quartet
Martin Butler (piano)
About
The title track Dirty Beasts, for speaker, piano, and wind quintet, is a deliciously gruesome but immediately accessible work which sets three verses from Roald Dahl's hilarious collection of poems. Narrator Simon Callow brings to life the stories of the Crocodile, Tummy Beast and Pig with a variety of gloriously ebullient regional accents, while Martin Butler's playfully evocative music is wonderfully realised by the New London Chamber Ensemble.
Martin's music is lyrical and strongly influenced by dance form, rhythms, jazz and improvisation. Rondes d'Automne for small ensemble explores the playing styles, textures and modal harmonies of American folk music. Fall for flute and piano and Lovesongs Waltzes for clarinet and piano have hints of delicate jazz and dance rhythms.
Composer-pianist Martin Butler performs two solo works on this album: Rumba Machine – a virtuosic fanfare-like piece – and Prelude Inégales, exploring ways in which material that has its roots in improvisation can be captured and worked on in more formal and strategic compositional ways.
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