Release Date: 15 July 2016
Label: Prima Facie
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0654469439040
Genres: Classical
Description
The first ever recording of Douglas Finch's piano and chamber music, 'Inner Landscapes: Piano and Chamber Music 1984-2013' offers an exquisite and compelling portrait of this important Canadian-British composer.
'Inner Landscapes' draws upon the art of the Canadian painter, Emily Carr, whose work features on the CD's cover. In particular, the feelings of "loneliness and quiet rapture" in her paintings drew Finch in, and fit with his self-confessed predilection for the themes of solitude, mourning and spiritual longing. The ten works on this disc each capture an 'inner world' of a particular landscape - in Canada, Germany, North Wales and New York.
Performed by the Canadian flautist Lisa Nelsen ("a flautist and a half" - The Times newspaper), the pianist Aleksander Szram, cellist Caroline Szram, and the violinists Mieko Kanno and Toby Tramaseur,the music spans Finch's compositional output from his early 20s, when he lived in Canada, to the present, after he moved to the UK in 1993.
"This music is inward-looking and deeply personal, though the world it looks into is cavernous, elusiveand unending, a sound-world quite unlike any that I have so far encountered." - Aleksander Szram, piano
Personnel: Aleksander Szram (piano), Lisa Nelson (flute), Mieko Kanno, Toby Tramaseur (violin), Caroline Szram (violin)
Tracklisting
Xuefei Yang, Johannes Moser, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Or
Kenneth Hamilton
The Choir of Robinson College, Cambridge & Will Sims
Kenneth Hamilton
Michael Cretu
Laura Serra
Helen Cawthorne
David Daly, Duncan Honeybourne, Ondrej Vrabec, Daniel Wiesner, Graham Walker, David Trippett
Anastasia Yasko
Hans-Jurg Strub; Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen; Christian Erny
Sinfonieorchester Gottingen
Mona Hartmann
Ignace Michiels
Anna Reichert
Tomasz Skweres, Ensemble Reconsil, Osterreichisches Ensemble fur Neue Musik, Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej
Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers
