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Martyn Brabbins and the Nash Ensemble here offer a superb recording premiere of a major work by James MacMillan. Like much of his music, it has a religious base. The big difference this time... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010
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The Nash Ensemble (chamber ensemble), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Elizabeth Wexler (violin), James Boyd (viola), Skaila Kanga (harp), Marianne Thorsen (violin), Paul Watkins (cello), Philippa Davies (flute), Ian Brown (piano), Richard Hosford (clarinet) Martyn Brabbins Recorded: 2001-05-21 Recording Venue: Angel Recording Studios, London John York (piano) Recorded: 2001-05-21 Recording Venue: Angel Recording Studios, London John York (piano) Recorded: 2001-05-21 Recording Venue: Angel Recording Studios, London John York (piano) Recorded: 2001-05-21 Recording Venue: Angel Recording Studios, London John York (piano) Recorded: 2001-05-21 Recording Venue: Angel Recording Studios, London
2010
Martyn Brabbins and the Nash Ensemble here offer a superb recording premiere of a major work by James MacMillan. Like much of his music, it has a religious base. The big difference this time is that whereas his source of inspiration generally lies at the heart of his Roman Catholicism, this time is it the Jewish tradition. RaisingSparks, a 35-minute cantata on the theme of creation and redemption, is inspired by a poem by Michael Symmons Roberts and by the writing of the Jewish author, Menahem Nahum; the work takes one inexorably through a kaleidoscopic sequence of symbolic images, with one vivid simile piled on another in Roberts's striking language.
