5060216349190

Skempton: Man And Bat, Piano Concerto, The Moon Is Flashing

Roderick Williams, James Gilchrist, Tim Horton & Ensemble 360

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Format: CD

Cat No: FHR090

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Release Date:  25 October 2019

Label:  First Hand Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5060216349190

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

  • Description

    This album of premiere recordings of works by Howard Skempton, including 'Man and Bat', the Piano Concerto, 'The Moon is Flashing' and 'Eternity's Sunrise', features possibly the greatest baritone of our time Roderick Williams, the celebrated tenor James Gilchrist, leading chamber pianist Tim Horton and the fantastic Ensemble 360.

    Skempton's music can be said to be exquisite and simple, with strong clarity and sophistication. His finely crafted, distinctive writing is sometimes catchy, sometimes transcendental, always memorable.

    Howard Skempton was born in Chester in 1947, and has worked as a composer, accordionist and music publisher. He studied in London with Cornelius Cardew from 1967, which helped Skempton to discover a musical language of great simplicity. Since then he has continued to write undeflected by compositional trends, producing a corpus of more than 300 works – many pieces being miniatures for solo piano or accordion. Skempton calls these pieces 'the central nervous system' of his work.

    Skempton's catalogue of works is also as diverse as it is long, ranging from pieces for solo cello (Six Figures, 1998), and guitar (Five Preludes, 1999), to the Chamber Concerto for fifteen players, the Concerto for Hurdy-Gurdy and Percussion, and Lento, premièred by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in 1991, and performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ilan Volkov, at the 2010 BBC Proms.

    Artists:
    Roderick Williams - Baritone
    James Gilchrist - Tenor
    Tim Horton - Piano
    Ensemble 360

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Skempton: Man and Bat
      • 2. Skempton: Piano Concerto - I. Andante
      • 3. Skempton: Piano Concerto - II
      • 4. Skempton: Piano Concerto - III
      • 5. Skempton: Piano Concerto - IV
      • 6. Skempton: Piano Concerto - V
      • 7. Skempton: The Moon is Flashing - I. The Moon is Flashing
      • 8. Skempton: The Moon is Flashing - II. A Day in 3 Wipes
      • 9. Skempton: The Moon is Flashing - II.I. Snake
      • 10. Skempton: Eternity's Sunrise