Harrison, S: The Rosegarden of Light

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Release Date: 27th May 2016
Catalogue No: TOCC0342
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 51 minutes

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Mohammad Omar: Arghawan (The Judas Tree)

Work length3:36

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ANIM Junior Ensemble of Traditional Instruments

Harrison, S: Dast be Dast

Work length5:11

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Kevin Bishop

Allah Hu (This Is God)

Track length5:11

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Harrison, S: Gulistan-e Nur (The Rosegarden of Light)

Work length25:20

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Cuatro Puntos, Ensemble Zohra

Ia. Interlude 1, Bahar-e Nastaran-bihag

Track length2:41

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Ib. Bahar-e Nastaran-bihag

Track length3:25

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IIa. Interlude 2, Shirin dokhtar-e maldar

Track length4:02

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IIb. Shirin dokhtar-e maldar

Track length5:43

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IIIa. Interlude 3, Watan Jan

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IIIb. Watan Jan

Track length6:46

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trad.: Qataghani Folksong

Work length4:13

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ANIM Junior Ensemble of Traditional Instruments

Salim Ustad Sarmast: Ay Shakhe Gul (Oh Flower Branch) [Arr. K. Bishop for String Ensemble]

Work length3:28

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Cuatro Puntos

trad.: Logari Folksong

Work length2:22

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ANIM Junior Ensemble of Traditional Instruments

trad.: Pesta Farosh (The Pistachio Seller) [Arr. K. Bishop for String Ensemble]

Work length3:46

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Cuatro Puntos

trad.: Ghunchai-e-Sorkh (Red Rosebud)

Work length3:12

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ANIM Junior Ensemble of Traditional Instruments

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This album is the fruit of a remarkable collaborative project, a kind of ‘Malala in music’. Here the students – some of them orphans and street vendors – of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul meet the US string sextet Cuatro Puntos. The student musicians include a ground-breaking girls’ ensemble – a remarkable achievement, given the conditions prevailing in contemporary Afghanistan.

They play both western and traditional Afghan instruments, and in Sadie Harrison’s Gulistan-e Nur: The Rosegarden of Light, they perform Afghan songs and dances which Harrison’s music then explores and develops. Kevin Bishop’s arrangements of Afghan tunes likewise link east and west.

This recording is evidence of a visionary venture celebrating the power of music to transform lives as it also revives and rebuilds Afghan musical traditions.

Sadie Harrison was made a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, London, in recognition of her unique research-based integration of contemporary composition and traditional Afghan music. In the same year a CD of her chamber music from Toccata Classics was described in The Observer as ‘a disc of glittering intensity’. Sadie Harrison has a unique career-path: alone among composers as a former archaeologist, she now also works part-time as a gardener.

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