Cat No:
HERESY022
Release Date: 25 January 2019
Label: Heresy Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 714676657580
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
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Description
'Testament' is an album of eleven compositions by the award-winning Irish composer, Mel Mercier. The compositions have been drawn from original scores created by Mercier for nine Irish and international theatre productions, the collection features music that has been distilled, recomposed and remixed for CD.The album features works from the Broadway production of The Testament of Mary by Colm TóibÃn, directed by Deborah Warner which starred Fiona Shaw, Powerbook from the National Theatre of Great Britain also directed by Warner and starring Fiona Shaw, Wayne Jordan's production of Seán O'Casey's, The Shadow Of A Gunman, from the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, James Macdonald's production of Fewer Emergencies by Martin Crimp for the Royal Court Theatre amongst others.
Discussing the music on the album Mercier says, "The tracks on Testament satisfy my long-held desire to find a way to document some of my theatre music. Recomposing and remixing from the pre-existing theatre soundscapes liberates the sounds from the original productions and gives them a second, new life, solely as a listening experience, as music alone."
Press:
"Deeply alluring...Remarkably, Mercier forges a coherent arc with his collection, and still each piece stands robustly on its own merit. Endlessly intriguing." - The Irish Times
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Tracklisting
- 1. The Merchant Of Venice
- 2. Molly One
- 3. The Shadow Of A Gunman
- 4. The Winter's Tale
- 5. Man Of Aran
- 6. Molly Two
- 7. Testament
- 8. The Powerbook
- 9. Suma
- 10. Setanta
- 11. Molly Three
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Strange Wonders, The Wexford Carols, Vol. II
Caitriona O'Leary, Seth Lakeman, John Smith, Clara Sanabras, Stile Antico, Alison Balsom
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engine detail, digressions 1-4
Daniel Figgis
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The Richter Scale
Ji Liu, Boris Bergmann
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The Transcendentalist
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Sleepsongs
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One Minute to Midnight, New Year's Eve 1912
The Dublin Drag Orchestra
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J.P.A. Falzone: A Curving Abacus
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
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The Leeds Bells
Gavin Bryars
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Toshio Hosokawa: Works for Saxophone
Ilse Eerens, Tomoko Kasai, Mayumi Miyata, Masanori Oishi, Saori Oya, Naoko Yoshino
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Jean-Luc Herve: Germination
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Rafal Zapala: Futility
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Visions and Journeys
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Geister
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someone will remember us
Elisabeth Harnik
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