Release Date: 04 June 2005
Label: NMC Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5023363008921
Genres: Classical Contemporary
Composer/Series: Chris Dench
Description
Chris Dench's wide-ranging extra-musical influences - from Angela Carter and Ludwig Wittgenstein to Thomas Dolby - are displayed on this disc of works written for the acclaimed Australian new music ensemble ELISION: the glittering mosaic of driftglass contrasts with funk, a punchy duet for bass clarinet and percussion; while the two most substantial pieces on the disc - the blinding access of the grace of flesh and ik(s)land[s] itself - both set the calligrammatic poetry of berni m janssen.
"Chris Dench and his compatriots have evidently been enjoying a richly productive relationship, documented here in three pieces — driftglass (1990), ik(s)land(s) (1997-8) and the blinding access of the grace of flesh (2002-3) ... [The last of these] is a wonderful example of Denchian swirl and wildness in an atmosphere of floating."
Paul Griffiths
"...A series of intricate highly complex scores that seemed to be carrying on the tradition that composers such as Ferneyhough had established out of the wreckage of total serialism." The Guardian
Tracklisting
Liza Lim, JACK Quartet, Jay Campbell, Rohan Dasika
Hannah Kendall, Ensemble Modern, Anne Denholm-Blair, Halle Orchestra, Jonathan Bloxham, Jonathan Mo
Philip Mead, Simon Emmerson, Zubin Kanga, Heather Roche, Carla Rees
Martin Iddon, Quiet Music Ensemble, Jack Adler-McKean
Clare O'Connell
Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers
Martyn Brabbins, Daniel Pioro, Anna Dennis, Andrew Gourlay, Elena Schwarz
Freya Waley-Cohen, Manchester Collective, Heloise Werner, Katie Bray, Fleur Barron, Tamsin Waley-Co
Elision
Elision
