Release Date: 05 November 2012
Label: Asc Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7395748012273
Genres: Classical  Classical  
Composer/Series: Hywel Davies
Release Date: 05 November 2012
Label: Asc Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7395748012273
Genres: Classical  Classical  
Composer/Series: Hywel Davies
Description
On this self-titled album Hywel Davies, a composer, sonic artist and installation artist, reveals his most significant recent preoccupations as a composer - exploring the possibilities of 'white-note' music and music with controlled elements of chance.
A parallel creative life as a sonic installation artist and a concert music composer has resulted in captivatingly diverse works, presented gracefully in this release. Combining elegant string and piano writing with striking abstract themes, the album drifts from the softest of melancholia to rich and intense vibrancy. Such transitions are delicately effortless and slow, with thought and determination behind every note.
"Nothing in the classical canon quite prepares you for Hywel Davies." - The Wire
Personnel: Dan Carlson, David Wish, Linling Hsu (violin), Sigrid Keunen (viola), Emma Ferrand, Katarina Hunold, Will Martina, Becky Wenham (cello), Pavao Quartet, Adam Caird (piano), Martin Pyne (glockenspiel), Heledd Francis-Wright (flutes), London flutes
Tracklisting
Xuefei Yang, Johannes Moser, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Or
Kenneth Hamilton
The Choir of Robinson College, Cambridge & Will Sims
Kenneth Hamilton
Duncan Honeybourne
Michael Cretu
Volante Opera Productions
Terence Charlston, Julian Perkins
Marek Kozak
Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Hulett, Benjamin Nicholas
Stuart Nicholson, Harry Meehan, Victoria Green, Aine Balfe, Richard O'Donnell,Bernard Rielly, Dyla
Francisco Correa and Emily Andrews
Congress Orchestra
Glenn Gould
Michal Balas
Michael Csanyi-Wills, Ilona Domnich, Charles OMutter