Augusta Read Thomas: The Auditions

Axiom Brass Quintet, Ken Oslen, WeiJing Wang, Ni Mei, Yuan-Qing Yu, Jessica Aszodi, Michael Solotke, Joey Brink, Daniel Pesca, Andrew Matthews-Owen, Claire Booth (soprano)

ICE Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Cliff Colnot

Augusta Read Thomas has an intense ‘voice’, with an exceptional ear for timbral detail, clarity and the control of ebb and flow…[The Auditions is] tremendously compelling, full of rhythmic sparkle,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 1st May 2020
Catalogue No: NI6402
Label: Nimbus
Length: 79 minutes

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Thomas, Augusta: Avian Capriccio

Work length12:04

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Axiom Brass Quintet

I. Hummingbirds

Track length4:35

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$1.40

II. Swans

Track length3:47

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III. Canaries

Track length3:42

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Thomas, Augusta: Plea for Peace

Work length5:37

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Ken Oslen, WeiJing Wang, Ni Mei, Yuan-Qing Yu, Jessica Aszodi

Thomas, Augusta: Ripple Effects

Work length5:17

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Michael Solotke, Joey Brink

Thomas, Augusta: The Auditions

Work length26:50

$7.00

$9.80

International Contemporary Ensemble
Vimbayi Kaziboni

I. Resonant

Track length2:04

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$1.40

II. Energetic

Track length5:55

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III. Elegant

Track length3:22

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IV. Ardent

Track length4:10

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V. Ethereal

Track length2:24

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VI. Passionate

Track length5:05

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VII. Mystical

Track length3:50

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Thomas, Augusta: Two Thoughts About The Piano

Work length5:35

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Daniel Pesca

Thomas, Augusta: Selene (arr. Cliff Colnot)

Work length16:46

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Third Coast Percussion
Cliff Colnot

Thomas, Augusta: Your Kiss

Work length7:43

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$2.10

Andrew Matthews-Owen, Claire Booth

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This release is dominated by three major scores with four shorter works filling out this 80-minute sonic portrait of an inexhaustibly inventive and individual composer. The ballet score The Auditions was written for the Martha Graham Dance Company, and with it, Thomas joins a distinguished company of composers who wrote scores for this seminal figure in modern dance (Copland, Menotti, Barber, Schuman and Hindemith amongst many others). It is structured in 7 sections, with the even numbered auditions of the title being the action-packed sections (all titled 'The Room'), and the odd-numbered ones (all titled 'The Landscape') acting as slower, more otherworldly frames. Premiered in New York in November 2019 this work is now programmed by five dance companies and Martha Graham will be touring the work in 2020 using this recording. The Auditions is published by Nimbus NMP1102 Conductors score and hire parts available. The Auditions can be performed with a synchronisation licence with this recording.

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Christmas 2020

Augusta Read Thomas has an intense ‘voice’, with an exceptional ear for timbral detail, clarity and the control of ebb and flow…[The Auditions is] tremendously compelling, full of rhythmic sparkle, subtle shades of mood and a brilliant sense of interplay between the intriguing selection of instruments...Perhaps the vocal works are ultimately the most touching.

December 2020

Practicable virtuosity is evident in Avian Capriccio...Timbral scintillation, long a facet of Thomas’s armoury, comes to the fore in The Auditions...As usual in this series, performances leave nothing to chance. Fortunate is the composer who has such committed exponents; but then, fortunate the artists who have music so idiomatically conceived and impressively realised.

Augusta Read Thomas: The Auditions

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