Release Date: 23 April 2021
Label: NMC Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5023363026024
Genres: Classical  Instrumental  
Release Date: 23 April 2021
Label: NMC Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5023363026024
Genres: Classical  Instrumental  
Description
With music that is 'sleek, hot, earthy, and physical', Tansy Davies's first orchestral album, Nature, brings together four exuberant works from the last decade.
In a piece which questions the very nature of a piano concerto, pianist Huw Watkins shows off the physicality of the piano in Nature, with it transforming into an 'athletic figure, running fearlessly through dense forest at night, invoking spirits.' Coupled with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group led by Oliver Knussen, here is music that sets 'the heart and mind in motion.' The Telegraph
Re-Greening hands-over control to the 164 teenage musicians of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, who sing and play, create and shape the sound without a conductor's guiding hand. Commissioned by NYOGB, this celebration of youth and Spring loosely follows the Shamanic Wheel of the Year, an annual cycle consisting of the year's most prominent solar events (solstices and equinoxes) and the midpoints between them.
Distilled from Davies' Between Worlds ('a musically superb meditation on grief and transcendence', TimeOut), the suite What Did We See? weaves together material from the opera into four orchestral movements, becoming a 'highly charged realisation of the poetic drama we created in response to the events of 9/11.' Tansy Davies.
The Norweigan Radio Orchestra with Karen Kamensek also features in Davies's Dune of Footprints. Inspired by the Cave of Niaux in southwestern France, this piece searches out spaces in 'tunnels of slowly shifting harmony' as Davies says, creating an organic ebb and flow. 'Sudden cascades dive down into deep darkness, where flinty textures emerge from shadows, then forming small cells that push to resume the forward motion.' Tansy Davies
Tracklisting
Lisa Illean, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, GBSR Duo, Juliet Fraser, Explore Ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, London Sinfonietta, Ryan Wigglesworth, Huw Watkins
Richard Baker
Mark Padmore, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta
Zubin Kanga
Thomas Simaku, soloists of Ensemble Intercontemporain
Onyx Brass
And So I Watch You From Afar
Matthew Ottignon
Sam Reider and the Human Hands
Charlie McCoy
Simon Care And Gareth Turner
Becky Price and Friends
Lewis Parker
A.G.A Trio