sounds: voices of our time
CURTAIN
RELEASED ON 20 OCTOBER 2008
AT THE SOUTHBANK CENTRE
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:
- Elliott Carter
Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
- James Lavino
An Exhortation of St Peter
(first recording)
- Artem Vassiliev
From the Song
(first recording)
- Arvo Pärt
Summa
(December 2006 revision)
- Paul Ayres
Ruth
(first recording)
- Peter McGarr
Dreaming England (This Sceptr'd Isle)
(commissioned / first recording)
- David Sawer
Sounds: Three Kandinsky Poems
(commissioned / first recording)
- Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
A Hoy Calendar
- Jan Sandström
Es is ein Ros entsprungen
- John Tavener
Funeral Ikos
- Philip Godfrey
Sing no sad songs for me
(first recording)
- Peter McGarr
Beautiful Days
(first recording)
The CD is available to order from the Classical Recording Company from where two extracts (from Musicians Wrestle Everywhere and Summa) are also available to listen to. LISTEN
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 recordings of Arvo Pärt's Summa and John Tavener's Funeral Ikos featured
on Classic FM's 'The Full Works' on 29 August 2008.
The CD was released on 20 October 2008 to coincide with a sounds: voices of our time concert at the Southbank Centre.
If you would like to order this CD 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.
