5023363025621

Julian Anderson: Poetry Nearing Silence

Nash Ensemble; Martyn Brabbins; Amelia Freedman

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Format: CD

Cat No: NMCD256

Release Date:  25 October 2019

Label:  NMC Recordings

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5023363025621

Genres:  Classical  Contemporary Country  

  • Description

    Christopher Dingle writes: 'Julian Anderson's music is hard to pin down. It belongs to no school, aesthetic construct or neat-ism. Anderson's music overflows with arichness 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.'

    This album focuses on Anderson's chamber music. The earliest piece, Ring Dance, written in 1987 and the most recent, Van Gogh Blue, in 2015. Three of the works on the album, Poetry Nearing Silence, Prayer and Van Gogh Blue, were originally composed for the players of the Nash Ensemble, one of the leading chamber ensembles and champions of British new music.

    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).

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Ring Dance
      • 2. The Bearded Lady
      • 3. The Colour of Pomegranates
      • 4. Prayer
      • 5. Poetry Nearing Silence: I. Muse in rocks or pebbles or clouds or foliage
      • 6. Poetry Nearing Silence: II. Know Vienna …
      • 7. Poetry Nearing Silence: III. My future as the star in a film of my room
      • 8. Poetry Nearing Silence: IV. Poetry Nearing Silence. Trouble is a voice outside. (hommage to S.B.)
      • 9. Poetry Nearing Silence: V. Lashing in Italy
      • 10. Poetry Nearing Silence: VI. In Bohemia, screwing (hommage to L.J.)
      • 11. Poetry Nearing Silence: VII. In Carpathia, you cared for new things
      • 12. Poetry Nearing Silence: VIII. Tall rain rattled over Paris
      • 13. Another Prayer
      • 14. Van Gogh Blue: I. L'Aube, soleil naissant
      • 15. Van Gogh Blue: II. Les Vignobles
      • 16. Van Gogh Blue: III. Les Alpilles
      • 17. Van Gogh Blue: IV. Eygalières
      • 18. Van Gogh Blue: V. la nuit, peindre les étoiles (le 25 mai 1889, 4:40am)