Martin Suckling: This Departing Landscape

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Bryan is sublime, slicing through fragmented cadenzas and revealing a powerful lower range. Another expert soloist is pianist Tamara Stefanovich, a highly accomplished 20th- and 21st-century... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 12th Feb 2021
Catalogue No: NMCD262
Label: NMC
Length: 76 minutes

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Suckling: The White Road (after Edmund de Waal)

Work length14:51

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$3.85

Katherine Bryan (flute)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov

Suckling: Release

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov

Suckling: Piano Concerto

Work length30:21

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Tamara Stefanovich (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov

I. Vigorous

Track length11:36

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II. Intermezzo I - Implacable

Track length3:45

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$1.30

III. Intermezzo II - Luminous

Track length7:04

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$2.60

IV. Intermezzo III

Track length2:43

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V. Passacaglia

Track length5:13

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Suckling: This Departing Landscape

Work length18:01

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BBC Philharmonic
Ilan Volkov

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Interview, Martin Suckling on This Departing Landscape

5th April 2021

The Scottish composer talks about his new album of orchestral and concertante works, drawing on inspirations ranging from childhood friendships to contemporary ceramic art and the philosophical musings of Morton Feldman.

Born in Glasgow, Martin Suckling has been heralded as 'probably the most important figure in Scotland's music since James MacMillan' (Michael Tumelty, The Herald). He has been championed by many leading orchestras and ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the London Contemporary Orchestra.

His Debut Disc brings together four large-scale works recorded with BBC Orchestras and conductor Ilan Volkov. The title piece, This Departing Landscape, explores the idea of music as a physical space that we move through and slips away from us, with a kaleidoscope of sharp-edged fragments then unlocking the glacial energy of the second movement. 'This was music that left me wanting to step inside my radio for full immersion.' (Flora Willson, The Guardian)

Release plays on the urge to clap or shout, sing and listen to the sound as it bounces around a large reverberant space. With the orchestra taking the role of both impudent child and cathedral, echos are distorted, captured, extended, and manipulated.

His flute concerto The White Road (after Edmund de Waal) makes good on a promise by Suckling to flautist Katherine Bryan as teenagers together in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Finding inspiration in the ceramic art of Edmund de Waal, Suckling builds an orchestra of virtual flutes to accompany Bryan's singing melodic lines. 'Fearless, dazzling, exceptional' (The Guardian) pianist Tamara Stefanovich sets the musical world in motion as the soloist in Suckling's Piano Concerto with music that spirals into more and more diverse regions through five exuberant movements.

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May 2021

Bryan is sublime, slicing through fragmented cadenzas and revealing a powerful lower range. Another expert soloist is pianist Tamara Stefanovich, a highly accomplished 20th- and 21st-century music specialist who has a thorough grasp of his 30-minute, five-movement Piano Concerto.

May 2021

The playing of the BBC orchestras betrays no hint of uncertainty under the astute guidance of Ilan Volkov, matched by excellent sound and detailed annotations from Suckling and Julian Anderson.

12th February 2021

The most substantial is the Piano Concerto, played on the recording with typical intensity by Tamara Stefanovich. Its heart is a becalmed intermezzo, cloudy with microtones, that’s perhaps the most involving music here.

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