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Description
NMC's Ancora series continues with a joint 70th birthday tribute to Nicholas Maw and Richard Rodney Bennett:
Life Studies, written for the virtuoso players of The Academy of St Martin-in-the Fields (the performers on this recording), is a series of vibrant character studies which range from the intensity of Penderecki and lyricism of Britten to a jazzy double bass solo (in Study V).
Richard Rodney Bennett's dramatic cantata Spells sets a sequence of haunting invocations by Kathleen Raine; it is performed by its dedicatee, soprano Jane Manning, with The Philharmonia Orchestra, Bach Choir and Sir David Willcocks.
'Maw treads a completely resolved path in his Life Studies between Bergian reserve and Tippett-like buoyant ecstasy... This is sheerly brilliant writing and the Academy trounces the challenge. [Jane Manning in Spells] is in splendid voice - try the Spell of Safekeeping - where she is at her wonderful best. Two brilliant retrievals from the fearsome mid-1970s.' MusicWeb
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Tracklisting
Disc 1
Side 1
- 1. Study 1
- 2. Study 2
- 3. Study 3
- 4. Study 4
- 5. Study 5
- 6. Study 6
- 7. Study 7
- 8. Study 8
- 9. Spell against sorrow
- 10. Spell of safekeeping
- 11. Spell to bring lost creatures home
- 12. Spell of sleep
- 13. Love Spell
- 14. Spell of creation
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