Julian Anderson: Fantasias, The Crazed Moon & The Discovery of Heaven

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[The Discovery of Heaven] combines the spacious and the frenetic, timelessness and urgency, within an overall sense of luminosity. Fantasias (2009) is a magnificent showpiece for 21st-century... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Nov 2013
Catalogue No: LPO0074
Label: LPO
Length: 59 minutes

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Anderson, Julian: Fantasias

Work length24:26

$5.20

$7.15

Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded: 3 December 2011
Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK

Fantasia I. Presto

Track length3:18

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$1.30

Fantasia II

Track length5:01

$1.00

$1.30

Fantasia III. Dolcissimo notturno

Track length6:30

$1.00

$1.30

Fantasia IV. Molto allegro

Track length2:14

$1.00

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Fantasia V. Prestissimo

Track length7:23

$1.20

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Anderson, Julian: The Crazed Moon

Work length13:53

$1.60

$2.60

Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded: 19 March 2011
Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK

Anderson, Julian: The Discovery of Heaven, Part 1

Work length6:31

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$1.30

Ryan Wigglesworth, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded: 24 March 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK

An Echo from Heaven

Track length6:31

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Anderson, Julian: The Discovery of Heaven, Part 2

Work length7:15

$1.20

$1.95

Ryan Wigglesworth, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded: 24 March 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK

In the Street

Track length7:15

$1.20

$1.95

Anderson, Julian: The Discovery of Heaven, Part 3

Work length7:04

$1.20

$1.95

Ryan Wigglesworth, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded: 24 March 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK

Hymns

Track length7:04

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$1.95

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Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 19 March 2011 (The Crazed Moon), 3 December 2011 (Fantasias) and 24 March 2012 (The Discovery of Heaven).

Julian Anderson is one of the UK’s most exciting living composers. He has been described by The Times as ‘a composer to cherish’ and by the Evening Standard as ‘one of the finest composers of his generation’. His work Harmony opened the 2013 BBC Proms and his opera Thebans will be premiered at English National Opera in May 2014. This season he also starts a three-year post as Composer in Residence at Wigmore Hall.

Anderson has been the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Composer in Residence since 2010. This is the first album of his works performed by the Orchestra, and includes one world premiere performance and two world premiere recordings.

This world premiere performance of The Discovery of Heaven won a 2012 Sky Arts Award in the Classical category.

This disc is conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, the LPO’s Principal Conductor; and young British conductor/composer Ryan Wigglesworth, who is rapidly making a name for himself on the international scene.

Reviews

January 2014

[The Discovery of Heaven] combines the spacious and the frenetic, timelessness and urgency, within an overall sense of luminosity. Fantasias (2009) is a magnificent showpiece for 21st-century orchestra, especially in this terrific performance...This is stunning music, played superbly and captured in good sound.

23rd November 2013

These three scores brilliantly performed by the LPO establish the composer’s emergence as a figure of international stature.

January 2014

The players sounds as if they are enjoying what is, at the very least, a glittering workout...Neither effete nor vulgar, this might just be the new music you've been waiting for, its wow-factor surface fluency only part of the story. Strongly recommended.

17th November 2013

[Fantasias] dates from Anderson’s residency with the Cleveland Orchestra and is a blisteringly inventive, often convulsively driven quasi-symphony...The Crazed Moon (1997) is a gravely beautiful 14-minute elegy for a friend who died young

31st October 2013

it's the vivid recording of the third work here [Fantasias that makes the biggest impression...full of spectacular effects, textural sleights of hand and lightning-fast changes of direction, it's Anderson's most vivid, most approachable orchestral work to date.

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