Julian Anderson - Poetry Nearing Silence
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Label: NMC Recordings
Cat No: NMCD256
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 25th October 2019
Contents
Works
Another PrayerPoetry Nearing Silence
Prayer
Ring Dance
The Bearded Lady
The Colour of Pomegranates
Van Gogh Blue
Artists
Nash EnsembleConductor
Martyn BrabbinsWorks
Another PrayerPoetry Nearing Silence
Prayer
Ring Dance
The Bearded Lady
The Colour of Pomegranates
Van Gogh Blue
Artists
Nash EnsembleConductor
Martyn BrabbinsAbout
Anderson is a master of evocative titles. Van Gogh Blue is inspired by numerous letters from the artist to his brother Theo. The colour blue was a particular and now famous obsession of his. The Bearded Lady reflects of the story of Baba the Turk, Ring Dance is influenced by the timbre of the Hardanger, a resonant Norwegian folk fiddle. The album title track Poetry Nearing Silence – a suite in eight movements – is inspired by an unusual book of drawings and poems by the artist Tom Phillips entitled The Heart of a Humument.
Also on the album are two related solo works, Prayer for viola (Lawrence Power) and Another Prayer for violin (Benjamin Nabarro).
'Julian Anderson’s music is hard to pin down. It belongs to no school, aesthetic construct or neat -ism. Anderson’s music overflows with a richness and plurality of technique, expression and sheer sound, from abstract noise to throbbing euphony, dissonance to consonance, diatonic modes to twelve-tone harmony, and many shades in between. Yet there is also remarkable precision amidst the exuberant abundance of material, not just in the passages of deceptive simplicity, but also in the most whirligig hubbub of textures with natural or microtonal tunings, for Anderson’s exceptional compositional craft and formidable ear enable his personality full expression.' – Christopher Dingle
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