Release Date: 04 December 2015
Label: Nmc Recordings
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060217670088
Genres: Classical Contemporary
Composer/Series: Shrouded Mirrors
Description
In Shrouded Mirrors, Chilean virtuoso Diego Castro Magaš champions recent British guitar music. The collection explores extremely demanding works with radical aesthetics and highly suggestive content. In doing so, Magaš explores the evocative quality of the instrument through extremes of both intimacy and violence. As a result of close collaboration with the composers involved, the recording includes innovative and authoritative versions of pieces by Brian Ferneyhough and James Dillon, as well as world premiere recordings of music by Matthew Sergeant, Bryn Harrison, Michael Finnissy and Wieland Hoban.
'All the pieces on this disc are in some way related to the idea of 'complex music' as they portray highly rationalized materials and notated challenges. I imagine these pieces as standing in front of other reflections, forming labyrinths. And those reflections are the metaphorical domains of these pieces, namely poems, images, places, other performing traditions and the past of the guitar itself.' Diego Castro Magaš
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
Trio Ivoire (Hans Ludemann, Aly Keita & Christian Thome)
Oregon
His 'n' Hers (Judith O'Higgins & Dave O'Higgins)
Matthias Bublath
uroboro
Richard Spaven
Jim Snidero
Jeremy Pelt
