sounds: voices of our time

CURTAIN

This CD is the first of a trilogy to be recorded for the Sounds: voices of time project. The works included are all by living composers and all have featured in the choir's "Sounds" concerts.

The title "CURTAIN" is inspired by the first movement "Curtain" of David Sawer's Sounds: Three Kandinsky Poems, commissioned by Exmoor Singers. The CD features the following works:

photo image (c) Phil Hoffman
  1. Elliott Carter
    Musicians Wrestle Everywhere

  2. James Lavino
    An Exhortation of St Peter
    (first recording)

  3. Artem Vassiliev
    From the Song
    (first recording)

  4. Arvo Pärt
    Summa
    (December 2006 revision)

  5. Paul Ayres
    Ruth
    (first recording)

  6. Peter McGarr
    Dreaming England (This Sceptr'd Isle)
    (commissioned / first recording)

  7. David Sawer
    Sounds: Three Kandinsky Poems
    (commissioned / first recording)

  8. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
    A Hoy Calendar

  9. Jan Sandström
    Es is ein Ros entsprungen

  10. John Tavener
    Funeral Ikos

  11. Philip Godfrey
    Song: When I am dead, my dearest
    (first recording)

  12. Peter McGarr
    Beautiful Days
    (first recording)

The recordings of Elliott Carters' Musicians Wrestle Everywhere and David Sawer's Sounds: Three Kandinsky Poems featured on Radio 3's The Choir on 28 October 2007.

The CD will be released soon. If you would like to be notified when this is available please click HERE

Exmoor Singers are very grateful for a grant awarded by the Britten-Pears Foundation in support of the creation of this CD.