Gesangbuch: Choral Works by Edward Cowie
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EDWARD COWIE
Gesangbuch: Choral Works by Edward Cowie
Stephen Preston (baroque flute) / BBC Singers & Endymion, Stephen Cleobury & Simon Joly
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Release Date: Monday 1 July 2013
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Edward Cowie's unique compositional voice stems from his wide-ranging interdisciplinary interests in both the sonic and visual arts, with many of his works inspired by ideas and concepts from artworks and from the natural world. The opening piece of this recording - a 2011 commission for BBC Radio 3 - creates a complex musical tapestry and soundscape from the call of the Australian bell-bird, opening with translations of choruses of several species of Australian frogs.
"expansive, sometimes unruly, but always attractively wrought and harmonically sumptuous; the latest incarnation of the BBC Singers perform the pieces with the instrumentalists of Endymion just as vividly as their predecessors did more than 35 years ago." The Guardian, 18th July 2013 ****
"The earliest of Cowie's fastidiously written choral works here, Gesangbuch (1975-76), is a complex skein of four movements, each devoted to a season. Rich in colour and texture, it betrays the influence of Tippett. The BBC Singers and the instrumentalists of Endymion...are persuasive and precise" Sunday Times, 11th August 2013
Tracks:
Bell Bird Motet
The Soft Complaining Flute
Gesangbuch
Lyre Bird Motet
