Crying
Bird, Echoing Star James Wood: Crying bird, echoing star
London Independent LIR003 [69 mins]
A brief welcome for an exceptionally enjoyable and well produced CD which is to be launched by the same artists with a complete performance of the entire programme on 6 June at the Purcell Room in London; well worth trying to catch live. The six works cover the gamut of contemporary music, excluding
the simplistic. The works were commissiond over a three year cycle
and tailor-made for this gifted ensemble. James Wood explores
star patterns and bird-song (in the wake of Messiaen); Edward
Dudley Hughes sets monologues for Apollo's priestess. Rolf
Hind emerges again as a composer after ten years devoted to
the piano, during which he 'didn't write a note'; I had been impressed
by an innovative piano piece introduced at his launch recital of
Trinity College of Music's New Quays
project, and Hind's ritualistic Horse Sacrifice is a major
work displaying originality and imagination, auguring well for a
composing future. See also from London Independent Sempre
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