Release Date: 15 May 2026
Label: Delphian Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 801918343551
Genres: Classical  Vocal  
Composer/Series: Look How Brightly
Release Date: 15 May 2026
Label: Delphian Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 801918343551
Genres: Classical  Vocal  
Composer/Series: Look How Brightly
Description
Look how brightly offers a portrait of Alex Mills' music from the past decade: ten works, many closely linked to moments of change, loss, ritual and renewal, together telling what feels like an intimate, personal story - almost, as Nico Muhly writes in the booklet, a sequence of musical diary entries. Across pieces for strings, voice, piano, percussion and tape, including three specially written for contralto Jess Dandy, familiar materials are quietly transformed: patterns fracture and reform, stasis gives way to movement, and moments of unguarded lyricism emerge unexpectedly. Those encountering Mills for the first time will find a compelling introduction to a composer whose music asks not for interpretation, but for attentive, inward listening - music that is 'not meditative, but a meditation'.
MZ Duo
Louise McMonagle
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
Siglo de Oro, Spinacino Consort
Toby Carr
Kantos Chamber Choir, Ellie Slorach
Lotte Betts-Dean, Joseph Havlat
Meraki Duo
Sofia Labropoulou
Margarita Slepakova, Le Sommeil
Les Itinerantes
James Gilchrist (tenor); Jelena Makarova (piano); Philippa Mo (violin)
Georg Poplutz, L'arpa festante, Florian Heyerick
Chen Reiss, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Dirk Kaftan
Aude Extremo; Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra; Gyorgy Vashegyi
Siglo de Oro, Spinacino Consort