Severine Ballon, Richard Craig, Marij Van Gorkom, Emma Richards & Alice Purton
Release Date: 25 October 2019
Label: First Hand Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060216341187
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Leading performers of contemporary music perform premiere recordings of works by award winnng composer John Croft.
The sirens are 'entwiners' (from the Greek seiraô, to bind or entwine). In John
Croft's Seirenes, whose five movements form the centrepiece of this album, the title refers to the way in which lines twist together and entangle to form a single, slow melody, sometimes distinct, sometimes obscured, as if carried by the wind. This cycle is presented alongside three pieces for soloist and live electronics, exploring the various ways that the sound of an instrument can be treated and transformed in real time, to create new colours, intensities, and haloes of sound.
John Croft was born in 1971. He studied philosophy and music at the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), subsequently composition and music cognition at the University of Sheffield. He has also studied with John Casken at the University of Manchester, where he completed his doctorate.
He is currently Reader at Brunel University, London. His music has been performed by a wide range of ensembles and soloists – including the BBC
Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, Gageego, Ensemble Exposé, Studiya Novoi Muzyki, the Distractfold Ensemble, the Explore Ensemble, Séverine Ballon, Juliet Fraser, Emma Richards, Marij van Gorkom, and Richard Craig. He was awarded First Prize at the 2001 International Jurgenson Competition for his String Quartet and the 2011 ICMC European Region Award for ... ne l'aura che trema for alto flute and live electronics, while Intermedio III for bass clarinet and live electronics won the Prix Ton Bruynèl in 2012. He also works as a recording engineer and producer, and writes on the philosophy of music.
Artists
Richard Craig - Flute
Emma Richards - Viola
Alice Purton - Cello
Séverine Ballon - Cello
Marij Van Gorkom - Clarinet
Tracklisting
Noxwode, Conor Gricmanis
Tessa Lark, Jon Batiste, Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer
David de Winter and The Brook Street Band
Alexander Baillie & Nigel Yandell
Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa; Alvaro Cassuto
The Flautadors Recorder Quartet
The Telling
Sarah Cahill
Karolos
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Flute Alors
Louise Bessette
Jonas Batstrand, Jorn Fossheim
