The Britten Sinfonia 1 - Songs of the Sky - Signum: SIGCD149 - CD or download

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As this disc demonstrates… 'serious' music may be less pure than 50 years ago and there may no longer by a Great Tradition, there is ample evidence of its vitality and the commitment of its exponents. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2009
Catalogue No: SIGCD149
Label: Signum
Length: 76 minutes

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Martland: Tiger Dancing

Work length15:03

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Watkins, H: Dream

Work length6:35

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O'Regan: Raï

Work length12:09

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Jason Yard: Who Knows the Beauty

Work length16:37

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Tavener: Songs of the Sky

Work length25:51

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From responses to devastating environmental disasters, to reflections on the expressive and communicative power of jazz, this collection brings together a series of commissions by some of the UK's most exciting current composers and celebrates modernity in its many, changing guises. Britten Sinfonia is one of Europe's most dynamic chamber orchestras which has residences in Cambridge, Norwich, Birmingham with a concert series at London's Southbank Centre.The ensemble is frequently heard on disc, BBC Radio 3 and commercial radio. In 2008/09 guest artists include Mark Padmore, director Katie Mitchell, Imogen Cooper, Dhafer Youssef, Alina Ibragimova and Mozart directed by Paul Lewis.

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July 2009

As this disc demonstrates… 'serious' music may be less pure than 50 years ago and there may no longer by a Great Tradition, there is ample evidence of its vitality and the commitment of its exponents.

September 2009

The sun shines on these new works by established and emerging composers. …arguably Yarde's Who Knows the Beauty is the most interesting work on display here. Veering vertiginously between straightforward jazz-inflected passages, lyrical faux-romanticism and highly dissonant, Zorn-like moments of frenetic free improvisation, this piece is as changeable as the weather and the sky itself.

26th April 2009

Huw Watkins’s deceptively innocently entitled Dream, for violin, clarinet and piano, is craftsmanlike music that runs deep

28th May 2009

Steve Martland’s Tiger Dancing certainly has a joyous energy, well caught by the Sinfonia’s strings.

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