Charlotte Bray: At The Speed Of Stillness

These six works by a new British composer (b1982) attest a sharp ear and a vigorous imagination...Inspired by the image of hidden dynamism Bray finds in Sizewell power station and its radial... — Sunday Times, 19th October 2014 More…

Release Date: 20th Oct 2014
Catalogue No: NMCD202
Label: NMC
Series: Debut Discs
Length: 70 minutes

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Bray, C: At the Speed of Stillness

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Aldeburgh World Orchestra
Mark Elder
Recorded: 18 July 2012
Recording Venue: Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk

Bray, C: Fire Burning in Snow

10:53

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Lucy Schaufer (mezzo-soprano)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Recorded: 27-28 February 2014
Recording Venue: St Silas Church, Kentish Town, London

No. 1. Moonshot

5:26

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No. 2. Loose Ends

2:54

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No. 3. Occupations

2:33

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Bray, C: Oneiroi

9:40

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Huw Watkins (piano)
Recorded: 27-28 February 2014
Recording Venue: St Silas Church, Kentish Town, London

Bray, C: Replay

10:31

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Huw Watkins (piano)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Recorded: 27-28 February 2014
Recording Venue: St Silas Church, Kentish Town, London

Bray, C: Yellow Leaves

11:41

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Claire Booth (soprano), Andrew Matthews-Owen (piano)
Recorded: 27-28 February 2014
Recording Venue: St Silas Church, Kentish Town, London

No. 4. Still Standing

2:00

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No. 5. Collusion

3:32

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No. 7. While the bell tolls…

2:26

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No. 8. Farewell

2:23

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No. 9. Old Tales

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Bray, C: Caught in Treetops

16:49

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Alexandra Wood (violin)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Oliver Knussen
Recorded: 26 June 2011
Recording Venue: Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk

Part I

10:46

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Part II

6:03

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Debut Discs is a 4-year series in collaboration with BA (Hons) Graphic Design students at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design who have designed the cover artwork for the series.

Debut Discs has the ambassadorial support of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

The series so far features the composers Huw Watkins, Dai Fujikura, Sam Hayden, Richard Causton, Joseph Phibbs, Larry Goves, Ben Foskett and Helen Grime.

Born in the UK in 1982, Charlotte Bray studied with Joe Cutler and graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire with First Class Honours. Then, with Mark Anthony Turnage, she completed her Masters at the Royal College of Music in 2008 gaining a Distinction. She studied at Tanglewood Music Centre in 2008, and in 2011 was made an Honorary Member of Birmingham Conservatoire. She has won numerous prizes, including the RPS composition prize in 2010.

During Bray’s residency with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (2009/10), Alexandra Wood premiered her violin concerto Caught in Treetops under Oliver Knussen. The concerto appeared also in Aldeburgh Festival’s closing concert in 2011.

Bayan Northcott writes … Charlotte Bray was 21 when she took to composing in earnest. Yet in scarcely more than a decade, she has built up a substantial catalogue of works in almost all the standard genres; built up, too, a professional reputation of a composer who works hard and always delivers. Not least, she has refined a compositional style and practice for herself, neither explicitly tonal nor atonal, but always cogent in its harmonic unfolding – token of an independent spirit from which much may be expected.

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19th October 2014

These six works by a new British composer (b1982) attest a sharp ear and a vigorous imagination...Inspired by the image of hidden dynamism Bray finds in Sizewell power station and its radial treetop power lines, the music’s inventiveness and textural control are unmistakeable.

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