Scottish composer Stuart MacRae wrote the four works collected on this CD while in his twenties. The diversely scored pieces are strongly influenced by the aesthetics of European modernism and most tend to be angst-ridden or prone to frenzy. They demonstrate great technical proficiency and are successfully evocative, but, except for certain ...
English composer Julian Anderson enjoyed a professional status of being named "composer-in-association" to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra between the years 2001 and 2005; before that he'd been engaged in a similar capacity with the chamber orchestra Sinfonia 21. Anderson is a former student of Tristan Murail and shares Murail and Gérard ...
It might reasonably be assumed that a collection of new performances of music Benjamin Britten wrote for industrial and educational films in the mid-'30s (e.g., Men Behind the Meters for the British Commercial Gas Association) would be of interest solely to the most rabid collectors of Britteniana. The music, however, is totally charming, and ...
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