Blackford: Not In Our Time

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Blackford's music is gesturally direct, aiming for visceral impact in the scrunching orchestral discord that represents the moment the Twin Towers collapsed...the performance shows exemplary... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Nov 2011
Catalogue No: NI6161
Label: Nimbus
Series: Alliance
Length: 54 minutes

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Blackford: Not In Our Time

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Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Youth Chorus, Stephen Gadd, Paul Nilon
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Gavin Carr

Part I, Inferno, Prelude

Track length2:31

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Part I, Inferno, George W. Bush

Track length2:36

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Part I, Inferno, Adam Gadahn and Ayman Al-Zawahiri

Track length2:21

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Part I, Inferno, Poem. "Not in Our Time" by H.D.

Track length1:30

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Part II, The First Crusade, Pope Urban II

Track length2:48

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Part II, The First Crusade, Hymn: Vexilla Regis

Track length4:15

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Part II, The First Crusade, Abul-Muzzafar Al-Abyurdi

Track length4:05

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Part III, The Fall of Jerusalem, Fulcher of Chartres

Track length2:44

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Part III, The Fall of Jerusalem, Hymn. Lucis Largitor Splendide

Track length4:47

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Part IV, Tom Junod

Track length6:12

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Part V, Aftermath, Chorus. "How Long, O Lord?"

Track length3:20

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Part V, Poem Fragment, "I do not know"

Track length3:40

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Part VI, God's Will, "Mohamed Ben Zeky"

Track length5:56

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Part VI, God's Will, Barack Hussain Obama

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Not In Our Time was commissioned by the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus to mark their Centenary in 2011. It takes the attack on the World Trade Centre as the focal point of a work that explores the theme of war declared in the name of religion ‐ from the speeches of George Bush and Barack Obama to the 11th century texts of the First Crusade. This poignant juxtaposition of texts alongside the vast emotional range of the symphony orchestra gives voice to the complex questions that surround these events.

In the words of the composer, “perhaps it’s through poetry and song that we can look unflinchingly at this tragedy of our time and offer some hope of reconciliation for the next generation”.

Not in our time will be recorded on September 14th at the Lighthouse, Pool and we hope it will be released by Nimbus during November. We are anticipating a high level of media attention surrounding the premier performances in Cheltenham and Pool.

Reviews

March 2012

Blackford's music is gesturally direct, aiming for visceral impact in the scrunching orchestral discord that represents the moment the Twin Towers collapsed...the performance shows exemplary skill and commitment. But there's an earnest preachiness about the music which is a little wearing.

May 2012

As one might expect from a composer so steeped in music for the theatre, this piece has a strongly filmic feel, with shades of Herrmann, Shostakovich and Walton...Gavin Carr draws sumptuously rich playing from his Bournemouth players, with the full tutti thrillingly underpinned by Christopher Dowie's organ-playing.

12th September 2013

Unsurprisingly, given his subject matter, Blackford’s music is often violent and graphic in tone...Blackford has written a good deal of music for film and TV and I think that experience is very evident in this score, which is powerfully illustrative...It’s hard to imagine that Not in our time could have received a more committed recording than this one

18th November 2011

a provocative, ambitious work whose libretto draws on diverse historical sources – presidential speeches, poems, religious proclamations – to sketch the course of conflict between Christianity and Islam, respectively represented by tenor and baritone voices...the choral textures have a vibrancy and dark energy reminiscent of Carmina Burana

26th November 2011

Blackford’s choral writing sounds like reheated Belshazzar’s Feast, and there’s a lot of mundane declamation. Still, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus deliver plenty of punch under Gavin Carr’s direction, Paul Nilon and Stephen Gadd are rousing soloists — and it’s not every day that you hear the speeches of George Bush and Barack Obama set to music.

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