Release Date: 30 September 2006
Label: NMC Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5023363012126
Genres: Classical Contemporary
Composer/Series: Julian Anderson Book Of Hours
Description
This disc from Julian Anderson celebrates his residency with Birmingham's ensembles from 2001-2005.
Book of Hours, one of three live recordings on the disc, combines ensemble and live electronics in a tribute to two great glories of late medieval art - the illuminations of the Très riches heures du Duc de Berry and the Dame à la licorne tapestries held in Paris; it uses electronic sound as (in the composer's words) 'an extra colour … rather as gold-leaf might be applied in a Medieval manuscript'.
Tracklisting
Martin Iddon, Quiet Music Ensemble, Jack Adler-McKean
Clare O'Connell
Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers
Martyn Brabbins, Daniel Pioro, Anna Dennis, Andrew Gourlay, Elena Schwarz
Freya Waley-Cohen, Manchester Collective, Heloise Werner, Katie Bray, Fleur Barron, Tamsin Waley-Co
Slide Action
Siwan Rhys
BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, Alice Farnham
Nash Ensemble; Martyn Brabbins; Amelia Freedman
