Sharon Bezaly's Spellbound serves as an installment among a number of BIS releases whereby the label assists in commissioning new works by contemporary composers for the young Israeli-born flutist to play. In this case, all of the pieces are by women of widely ranging generations and backgrounds; Sofia Gubaidulina, of course, is the venerated ...
English composer Sally Beamish wrote the three pieces recorded here while she was composer-in-residence with the Swedish and Scottish chamber orchestras. It's not surprising, then, that they all have distinctly icy, wintry moods. Whitescape, a sketch for an opera based on the life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, explicitly conjures images of the ...
The subtitle of this album is "New Works for Remembrance," and its four selections by British composers are united by their use of texts that deal, either explicitly or implicitly, with the personal ravages of war. They were performed by the Portsmouth Grammar School Chamber Choir at the school's annual Remembrance Day concerts. Cecilia McDowall's ...
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