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
Vimbayi Kaziboni; Joseph Havlat; BBC Philharmonic; Piatti Quartet
Plus-Minus Ensemble
Decibel
Xenia Pestova-Bennett, Stephen Richardson, Claire Booth, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Sian
Zoe Martlew, Ben Goldscheider, Lucy Schaufer, Huw Watkins, Mark Simpson, Alessandro Fisher, Lana Bo
Jorgen Pettersson, Paulina Sundin, Jens Hedman, Jonny Axelsson
Liza Lim, JACK Quartet, Jay Campbell, Rohan Dasika
Hannah Kendall, Ensemble Modern, Anne Denholm-Blair, Halle Orchestra, Jonathan Bloxham, Jonathan Mo
Elision
Elision
![Elision - Chris Dench: ik[s]land(s) - NMCD089](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/5023363008921.jpg?v=1764616745&width=1200)
![Elision - Chris Dench: ik[s]land(s) - NMCD089](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/5023363008921.jpg?v=1764616745&width=800)
