BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth
Release Date: 13 December 2000
Label: NMC Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5023363000529
Genres: Classical Contemporary
Composer/Series: Howard Skempton
Description
Lento is music of extraordinary directness and simplicity. It is an enigmatic and hypnotic work within which shifting modal chords progress through the orchestra to create a chorale-like, almost architectural form beneath a calm melodic surface; now something of a cult piece, it is NMC's most consistently-selling recording since its release in 1992.
'Lento, by the British miniaturist Howard Skempton, must surely be heading for cult status… it is captivating in its simple wistfulness.'
BBC Music Magazine Pick of 1992
'An enigmatic orchestral chorale … like Gorecki's Third Symphony, it is stuff that cults are made of' Gramophone
'First performed in 1991, Lento is a timeless piece, both an intensely personal continuation of the English pastoral tradition and a far more convincing assertion of the continuing expressive power of tonal music than anything in Pärt's world of faux-religiosity.' The Guardian
Tracklisting
Liza Lim, JACK Quartet, Jay Campbell, Rohan Dasika
Hannah Kendall, Ensemble Modern, Anne Denholm-Blair, Halle Orchestra, Jonathan Bloxham, Jonathan Mo
Philip Mead, Simon Emmerson, Zubin Kanga, Heather Roche, Carla Rees
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
Sun Speak
Robert Mitchell
Gregory Groover Jr.
McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter & Al Foster
Ruby Rushton
Rabbath Electric Orchestra
Sophisticated Ladies
Russ Lossing
