Harrison: Solos & Duos For Strings & Piano

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Label: Toccata
Release Date: July 10, 2015

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Featuring ⌄

COMPOSER

HARRISON, SADIE
PERFORMER

Skaerved, Chadwick, Mathews, Trandafilovski

Product Details ⌄

RELEASE DATE

July 10, 2015
UPC

5060113443045
CATALOG NUMBER

TOCC0304
LABEL

Toccata
NUMBER OF DISCS

1
GENRE

Instrumental

Works ⌄

Room 1: I. The Flight of Swallows

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 1: II. Mint Tea in an Empty Medina

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 1: III. … same strand …

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 1: IV. Measure for Measure

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 1: V. The wonder of flying or Time for the night of practise

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 1: VI. Return from Lysoen

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 1: VII. Coffee with Aphra Behn: Westminster Abbey Cloisters

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 1: VIII. Nur punktlich

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 1: IX. Sheppard's Meadow

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 1: X. Two morning lights

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 1: XI. It rubs off

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 2: I. The writing cabin in the woods

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 2: II. Scheherazade

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 2: III. Early Responses to the Thames 1990 I: Twilight … Dawn

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 2: IV. Practising Sadie Harrison

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 2: V. Lachrymae after Cotton Eye Joe

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 2: VI. Stormfactory: Stravinsky 'Three Pieces'

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 2: VII. Cymbeline's Fort

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Room 2: VIII. Sarabande/double - walk through the graveyard

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
… ballare una passacaglia di ombre …

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
No. 1. after Antiphon

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Roderick Chadwick
No. 2. after Sacrarium

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Roderick Chadwick
No. 3. after Palimpsest

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Roderick Chadwick
No. 4. after The Intervening Figure

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Roderick Chadwick
No. 5. after Flint

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Roderick Chadwick
No. 6. after Hearth

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Roderick Chadwick
No. 7. after Hidden Ceremony

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Roderick Chadwick
No. 8. after Spine

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Roderick Chadwick
No. 9. after Antler Music

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Roderick Chadwick
No. 1. Diana

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Diana Mathews
No. 2. Hecate

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Diana Mathews
No. 3. Selene

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Diana Mathews
I. The Vision of Anne Catherine Emmerich

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved, Mihailo Trandafilovski
II. The Life of Skin

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved, Mihailo Trandafilovski
III. Brahma's Angels - Indra's Thunderbolt - Vaivasvata's Ark

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved, Mihailo Trandafilovski
IV. The Thousand Songs of Thebes

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved, Mihailo Trandafilovski
V. Albrecht Durer Self-Portrait 1500 AD - The Frankfurt Zoll

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved, Mihailo Trandafilovski
VI. Tourmaline

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved, Mihailo Trandafilovski
VII. The Curse with Turtledoves

Composer: Sadie Harrison

Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved, Mihailo Trandafilovski

The Australian-British Sadie Harrison is no ordinary composer: she is also an archaeologist and a professional gardener. So it is hardly surprising that a fascination with historical artifacts and biological processes filters into her music. The instrumental miniatures on this recording are both slow and brutal, some of them mirroring ancient worlds and natural phenomena and others taking their starting point in the paintings of Brian Graham and Peter Sheppard Skærved, expressing visual and textural ideas in sound. All are first recordings.

REVIEW:

Australian-born and UK-based, Sadie Harrison took some time out from composition to work as an archaeologist and professional gardener, activities which nourish these new works, mostly written in the past four years. Her fascination with fragments, minutiae and painted miniatures has resulted in five groups of tiny pieces each lasting around three minutes or less. The shortest is 24 seconds! Gallery (Rooms I and II) for solo violin—19 musical glimpses to be played in any order—takes the paintings of the versatile violinist Peter Sheppard-Skaerved as a starting point. Hidden Ceremonies, for piano, explores prehistory as depicted through paintings by Brian Graham. Musical echoes, from Vaughan Williams to Stravinsky to Aghanistan and beyond, are woven into Harrison’s works, each glittering in their intensity.

-- The Guardian