BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Release Date: 28 January 2002
Label: NMC Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5023363002820
Genres: Classical Contemporary
Composer/Series: David Sawer
Description
Byrnan Wood was inspired by Shakespeare's famous peripatetic forest in Macbeth; it explores the possibilities offered by the permutation of stillness into movement, as musical figures pass between players like Chinese whispers.
'Sawer's writing is full of vivid ideas and crisp shapes; the whole piece has a machine-like inevitability about it that generates real physical excitement, and it is well caught in the BBC Symphony's performance under Andrew Davis.' The Guardian
'brought to abrasive life in the sharply focused orchestral colours of Sawer's tone poem, rendered with maximum conviction by the orchestra that first performed it.' Gramophone
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
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
