Bernard Rands: Chains Like the Sea

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Rands studied with Dallapiccola and Berio and his music is lean, tense and melodically driven…Moser is a committed and nuanced soloist. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2019 More…

Release Date: 8th Feb 2019
Catalogue No: NMCD253
Label: NMC
Length: 61 minutes

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Rands: Danza Petrificada

Work length10:36

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BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell

Rands: Cello Concerto No. 1

Work length28:49

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Johannes Moser (cello)
BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell
Recorded: 14 June 2014
Recording Venue: BBC Philharmonic, Salford, England, UK

Cello Concerto No. 1: I. For Slava

Track length9:05

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Cello Concerto No. 1: II. Fantasia

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Cello Concerto No. 1: III. Cancone (From Hiraeth)

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Rands: Chains Like the Sea

Work length21:44

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BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell
Recorded: 14 June 2014
Recording Venue: BBC Philharmonic, Salford, England, UK

Chains like the Sea: I. The Sabbath Rang Slowly

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Chains like the Sea: II. Rivers of the Windfall Light

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Bernard Rands was born in Sheffield and came to prominence during the 1960s as one of the major British composers of his generation; his work championed by the likes of Boulez and Berio. In the 1970s, Rands took up a Professorship at the University of California and then at Harvard University, and has lived in the United States ever since. In America his music developed through a series of high-profile commissions and a seven-year residency with the Philadelphia Orchestra, working with Riccardo Muti, and he has written for all the major orchestras in the USA and across the world.

In 2014, for his 80th birthday, the BBC Philharmonic, and Royal Northern College of Music produced a series of concerts celebrating Rands' music. This series culminated in a portrait concert at the BBC Philharmonic’s studio in Salford, which is where the recordings on this new album come from, released to celebrate his 85th.

The earliest piece on this album is the Cello Concerto (1996), composed for Mstislav Rostropovitch. The work's first and third movements are woven with the traditional Welsh folk song Hiraeth. Rands studied in Wales, in Bangor, and learned to speak the Welsh language; the word ‘hiraeth’ connotes ‘nostalgia’ or ‘deep longing for the homeland’. A Welsh theme continues in Chains Like the Sea (2008), with two movements that take lines from the poem Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas, one of Rands’ great heroes. For the third and most recent pieces on this release, we move to warmer climes. Danza Petrificada is a virtuosic showpiece commemorating the centenary of the Mexican revolution. The work is coloured by rattling tambourines, suggesting the ubiquitous percussion of Mexico and the ever present cicadas of the Mexican night.

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April 2019

Rands studied with Dallapiccola and Berio and his music is lean, tense and melodically driven…Moser is a committed and nuanced soloist.

27th January 2019

His avant-garde manner developed into a finely crafted, lyric, rather Italianate expressivity, exampled by these three works. The Cello Concerto for Rostropovich (1996) is palpably a large accomplishment.

Classical Music March 2019

The 2010 Danza Petrificada is amazing in respect of the technicolour sonic imagination in use; the BBC Philharmonic is on top form, well recorded. More of Rands’ sonic command is heard in the cello concerto, superbly and commandingly played by Moser. Lines by Dylan Thomas inspired Chains like the Sea, the most emotionally powerful work on the disc heard in a commanding performance. A brilliant, terrific disc.

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