Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212027721
Catalog number: SIGCD 277
Releasedate: 01-12-11
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212027721
Releasedate: 01-12-11
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The London Sinfonietta combine two works from Thomas Adès, one of the most distinctive and popular voices in modern composition. Both works feature accompanying films (by Tal Rosner and Sophie Clements) that are included on this album. It follows their October release of music by Louis Andriessen, featuring the UK premiere of Anaïs Nin, alongside his famed work De Staat.
In Seven Days is a musical interpretation for piano and orchestra of the biblical ‘creation’ by Thomas Adès. The music evokes the processes of the creation rather than the objects described in the movement titles, using simple elements in repeated and evolving contexts in a perpetual state of flux, change and growth.
The Piano Studies Nos 6 & 7 are arrangements of player-piano works by the American composer Conlon Nancarrow. An influential figure to generations of composers, Nancarrow’s studies for the player-piano (or pianola) allowed him to generate music of extreme rhythmic complexity in a multitude of inventive ways. These arrangements for two pianos by Thomas Adès capture the strange magic of the originals, where fragmented musical ideas are played off against each other in a wild, almost jazz-like way. The works are accompanied by film-visualisations by Tal Rosner and Sophie Clements.
In Seven Days is a musical interpretation for piano and orchestra of the biblical ‘creation’ by Thomas Adès. The music evokes the processes of the creation rather than the objects described in the movement titles, using simple elements in repeated and evolving contexts in a perpetual state of flux, change and growth.
The Piano Studies Nos 6 & 7 are arrangements of player-piano works by the American composer Conlon Nancarrow. An influential figure to generations of composers, Nancarrow’s studies for the player-piano (or pianola) allowed him to generate music of extreme rhythmic complexity in a multitude of inventive ways. These arrangements for two pianos by Thomas Adès capture the strange magic of the originals, where fragmented musical ideas are played off against each other in a wild, almost jazz-like way. The works are accompanied by film-visualisations by Tal Rosner and Sophie Clements.
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1In Seven Days:i. Chaos - Light - Dark08:25
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2In Seven Days:ii. Separation of the waters into sea and sky04:14
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3In Seven Days:iii. Land - Grass - Trees05:35
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4In Seven Days:iv. Stars - Sun - Moon03:16
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5In Seven Days:Fugue: v. Creatures of the Sea and Sky03:05
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6In Seven Days:Fugue: vi. Creatures of the Land02:29
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7In Seven Days:vii. Contemplation01:53
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8Study No.603:39
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9Study No.710:00