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Poetry Nearing Silence

The Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins25 Oct 2019 • 18 songs

Song List

1
Ring Dance
Benjamin NabarroMichael Gurevich
2
Poetry Nearing Silence: I. Muse in Rocks or Pebbles or Clouds or Foliage
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins
3
Van Gogh Blue: I. L'aube, soleil naissant
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins
4
The Bearded Lady (Version for Clarinet & Piano)
Richard HosfordIan Brown
5
Poetry Nearing Silence: II. Know Vienna
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins
6
Van Gogh Blue: II. Les vignobles
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins
7
The Colour of Pomegranates
Philipa DaviesIan Brown
8
Poetry Nearing Silence: III. My Future as the Star in a Film of My Room
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins
9
Van Gogh Blue: III. Les alpilles
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins
10
Prayer
Lawrence Power
11
Poetry Nearing Silence: IV. Poetry Nearing Silence
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins
12
Van Gogh Blue: IV. Eygalières
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins
13
Poetry Nearing Silence: V. Lashing in Italy
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins
14
Van Gogh Blue: V. La nuit, peindre les étoiles
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins
15
Poetry Nearing Silence: VI. In Bohemia, Screwing
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins
16
Another Prayer
Benjamin Nabarro
17
Poetry Nearing Silence: VII. In Carpathia, You Cared for New Things
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins
18
Poetry Nearing Silence: VIII. Tall Rain Rattled over Paris
The Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins

Poetry Nearing Silence

Christopher Dingle writes: “Julian Anderson’s music is hard to pin down. It belongs to no school, aesthetic construct or neat–ism. Anderson’s music overflows with a richness and plurality of technique, expression and sheer sound, from abstract noise to throbbing euphony, dissonance to consonance, diatonic modes to twelve-tone harmony, and many shades in between. Yet there is also remarkable precision amidst the exuberant abundance of material, not just in the passages of deceptive simplicity, but also in the most whirligig hubbub of textures with natural or microtonal tunings, for Anderson’s exceptional compositional craft and formidable ear enable his personality full expression.” This album focuses on Anderson's chamber music. The earliest piece, Ring Dance, written in 1987 and the most recent, Van Gogh Blue, in 2015. Three of the works on the album, Poetry Nearing Silence, Prayer and Van Gogh Blue, were originally composed for the players of the Nash Ensemble, one of the leading chamber ensembles and champions of British new music. Anderson is a master of evocative titles. Van Gogh Blue is inspired by numerous letters from the artist to his brother Theo. The color blue was a particular and now famous obsession of his. The Bearded Lady reflects of the story of Baba the Turk, Ring Dance influenced the timbre of the Hardanger, a resonant Norwegian folk fiddle. The album title track Poetry Nearing Silence - a suite in eight movements - is inspired by an unusual book of drawings and poems by the artist Tom Phillips entitled The Heart of a Humument. Also on the album are two related solo works, Prayer for viola (Lawrence Power) and Another Prayer for violin (Benjamin Nabarro).
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