The Moth Requiem / etc
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HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
The Moth Requiem / etc
Roderick Williams (baritone), BBC Singers & Nash Ensemble, Nicholas Kok
[ Signum / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 May 2014
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As 2014 marks the composer's 80th year, Harrison Birtwistle remains one of the most popular voices in contemporary composition in the UK and beyond. This new collection of premiere recordings draws together recent commissions with older works to mark the occasion, with characteristically flawless performances from the BBC Singers under Nicholas Kok. They are joined on this disc by the Nash Ensemble and baritone Roderick Williams.
This is the fourth in Signum's ongoing series of composer-led releases with the BBC Singers, with past discs featuring the works by Judith Bingham, Richard Rodney Bennett, and most recently Edward Cowie.
GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014
"This is a wonderful and important release of his powerful and often delicate works. Best, perhaps, to being with On the Sheer Threshold of the Night, which is a kind of spin-off from The Mask of Orpheus...This disc is the most fitting tribute imaginable to Birtwistle on his 80th birthday." (BBC Music Magazine Award Nomination 2015 - Choral)
"The centrepiece of this outstanding disc of choral works by Harrison Birtwistle, all recorded for the first time, is one of the beautiful and most intensely personal of his recent scores...It's an important, scrupulously presented collection." (The Guardian)
"I doubt whether anything the year brings for Birtwistle's 80th birthday is going to dim the lustre of this excellent recording of his choral music. Nor surpass it in importance, perhaps." Editor's Choice Gramophone May 2014
Tracks:
The Moth Requiem (2003)
Latin Motets (3) from The Last Supper
Carmen Paschale
Lullaby
On the Sheer Threshold of the Night
The Moth Requiem (2012)
