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Tarik O'regan: A Celestial Map Of The Sky

Hallé; Sir Mark Elder

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Format: CD

Cat No: NMCD220

Release Date:  24 February 2017

Label:  NMC Recordings

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5023363022026

Genres:  Classical  Contemporary  

  • Description

    Tarik O'Regan's title work A Celestial Map of the Sky, here performed by a children's and youth choir with the Hallé, is a vibrant composition with propulsive, syncopated rhythms contrasting darker moments of reflection. The piece is inspired by two woodcuts engraved by German polymath Albrecht Dürer in 1515, which are amongst the oldest known printed European star charts of the northern and southern celestial hemispheres.

    A deep-rooted interest in North African traditional music, shaped in part by Tarik's Algerian heritage, is integrated into two of the orchestral works on this album, which are influenced by and named after Algerian folk music forms: Raï and Chaâbi.

    First heard at the BBC Proms, Latent Manifest is an ingenious expansion of a single gesture from a Bach violin sonata, magnified to create an entire universe of orchestral colour. To close the album, Fragments from Heart of Darkness is a compelling orchestral reworking of thematic material from O'Regan's chamber opera Heart of Darkness, and is based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Conrad.

    The bonus download-only track, Now fatal change, for countertenor and violin, is a reworking of material found in Chaâbi and is set to the same text by Nahum Tate that Purcell used for Tell me, some pitying angel.

    This is Tarik's first album dedicated to his orchestral works.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Tarik O'Regan: A Celestial Map of the Sky
      • 2. Tarik O'Regan: Latent Manifest
      • 3. Tarik O'Regan: Raï
      • 4. Tarik O'Regan: Chaâbi
      • 5. Tarik O'Regan: Fragments from Heart of Darkness