London Sinfonietta & Nicholas Collon
Release Date: 30 September 2013
Label: Neu Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0793573260543
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Like a Japanese garden, the music of notable Spanish composer Ramon Humet (born in 1968 in Barcelona) is beautiful, refined, transparent and often playful. Exuding an intense love of nature, and often inspired by Japanese traditional music for shakuhachi, it has received widespread praise from audiences and critics alike.
The album 'Niwa' brings together three Japanese-inspired chamber works: Four Zen Gardens, for three percussionists with resonant instruments including vibraphone and bells, Garden of Haikus, 10 short movements for piano trio and three percussionists, and Petals, which closes this journey through timbres with a piano trio. Each of the pieces is followed by a track of silence, intended for assimilation of the musical experience, "creating a space of expansion that dialogues with the work".
Central to the project is the clarity and precision of one of today's most prestigious ensembles, the London Sinfonietta - under the baton of one of Britain's most promising young conductors, Nicholas Collon - and the potential for immersion in sound and fidelity of timbre that is offered by recording in high definition surround sound. It was recorded in the extraordinary natural acoustic of the Watford Colosseum in January 2012.
This innovative project by the independent label Neu Records uses the latest formats of recording and distribution in the service of three of Humet's most representative chamber works, specially adapted in close collaboration with the composer for the surround 5.1 system.
"Ramon Humet's music is delicate and subtle, with high poetic imagination. Humet is a hope for the future; he has a fine ear, and a spirit full of light." - Jonathan Harvey
Personnel: London Sinfonietta (Alexandra Wood, violin; Lionel Handy cello; Huw Watkins, piano; David Hockings, percussion; Serge Vuille, percussion, Oliver Lowe, percussion); Nicholas Collon (conductor)
Tracklisting
London Sinfonietta, Geoffrey Paterson & Abel Tomas
London Sinfonietta & Nicholas Collon
Latvian Radio Choir & Sigvards Klava
Plus-Minus Ensemble, Mark Knoop, Ensemble Contrechamps, Vimbayi Kaziboni
Fritz Hauser
Cuarteto Casals
Claron McFadden, Alberto Rosado, Kakizakai Kaoru & Neopercusion
Drumming, Miquel Bernat & Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez
Josef Krips; Various Orchestras
Josef Krips
Atalanta Fugiens Orchestra; Vanni Moretto
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein
Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal
Brussels Philharmonic, Kazushi Ono
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonie, Friedrich Kleinhapl, Robert Kruzik
Sibylle Mahni; Andreas Spering; Brandenburger Symphoniker
