Release Date: 01 July 2018
Label: Willowhayne Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5065001668012
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Out of the Darkness
Description
Out of the Darkness is a brand new secular cantata for mezzo-soprano, two cellos and eight voices, written by Julian Marshall. The inspiration for the piece is based on the poem Aus dem Dunkel (Out of the Darkness), by Gertrud Kolmar. Kolmar lived in Berlin for much of her life, but was transported to Auschwitz in 1943, where she perished. Her poetry is strikingly full of life – colour, vibrancy, deep sensation - and Aus dem Dunkel, is surely one of the most beautiful. Written in 1937, the poem evokes powerful dream-like images of crumbling and decay - serving as an eerie foretelling of the imminent tidal wave of horror about to hit the world. Also featured on this recording is another world premiere – a new piece by Gavin Bryars for mezzo-soprano, cello and keyboard. The Island Chapel was commissioned by the Tate Gallery St Ives in 1997, for performance in St. Nicholas Chapel, St. Ives. Spiegel im Spiegel, whose title translates as mirror in the mirror was written in 1978, and was the last piece Pärt wrote before escaping Soviet rule to live in Europe. The listener is invited utterly to clear his or her mind of all extraneous and unnecessary noise and to focus completely on pure sonority without concerns of emotional trajectory or pictorial representation. Every note is perfectly placed, nothing is unnecessary, and Out of the Darkness the method – of adding one note at a time to the cello’s alternately rising and falling line is plain to hear. Julian Marshall has had a highly successful musical career, but it is composition that has been his consuming passion over time – now firmly at the centre of his creative life. Compositions include a broad range of music – from a Missa Brevis written when the composer was 17 (composed for and recorded by the Dartington Hall School choir); many jazz compositions for own bands (which include being played live, recorded and broadcast); many songs for above named bands; a film score for the Orion Pictures movie Old Enough; a millennium commission written for the Plymouth Symphony Orchestra and several school choirs entitled The Clock of the Long Now (written with a text by poet Rose Cook). His cantata Out of the Darkness was premiered in March 2009 and he has several works in progress. The Schoolhouse 6 Ensemble is a collective of musicians brought together by Julian Marshall specifically to record and perform Out of the Darkness and future works written by him.
Tracklisting
GORBACH/KISTEN
EXQUARTET/SAXAS
Duo Coincidencia
DUO AUROUS
Walter G. Alcock; George D. Cunningham; Marcel Dupré; Herbert Ellingford; Reginald Goss-Custard; Ge
The Cirrus String Quartet
TBILISI SO/DJANSUG KAKHIDZE
TBILISI SO/DJANSUG KAKHIDZE
