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Release Date: 15 May 2026
Label: Delphian Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 801918343551
Composer/Series: Look How Brightly
Description
Look how brightly offers a portrait of Alex Mills' music from the past decade: ten works, many closely linked to moments of change, loss, ritual and renewal, together telling what feels like an intimate, personal story - almost, as Nico Muhly writes in the booklet, a sequence of musical diary entries. Across pieces for strings, voice, piano, percussion and tape, including three specially written for contralto Jess Dandy, familiar materials are quietly transformed: patterns fracture and reform, stasis gives way to movement, and moments of unguarded lyricism emerge unexpectedly. Those encountering Mills for the first time will find a compelling introduction to a composer whose music asks not for interpretation, but for attentive, inward listening - music that is 'not meditative, but a meditation'.
MZ Duo
Sally Beamish, Joseph Havlat, Ryan Corbett, Stephanie Irvine, Rosalind Ventris, Imogen Whitehead, P
Chroma, Jess Dandy
Sean Morgan-Rooney
The Choir of Merton College, Oxford
Lotte Betts-Dean / James Girling / Ligeti Quartet / Arthur Keegan
Choir Of Merton College; Oxford; Benjamin Nicholas & Peter Phillips
12 Ensemble, Clement Power (conductor), GBSR Duo, Siwan Rhys (piano), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Jessica Walker; Joseph Atkins; Megan Glover; Solem Quartet
David Webb; Jennifer France, Charles Rice, Academy of Ancient Music; John Andrews
David McNeil
Nina Simone
Chroma, Jess Dandy
Anna Fraser and Neal Peres Da Costa
Marie Lys; Gaetan Jarry; Orchestre de l'Opera Royal
Aurelia Visovan; Coline Dutilleul
