Composer: Nigel Clarke
Performer: Harmen Vanhoorne, H. Stephen Smith, Middle Tennessee State University Wind Ensemble
Conductor: Reed Thomas
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0412
Release: 2017
Size: 287 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Mysteries of the Horizon “Cornet Concerto”
01. I. The Menaced Assassin
02. II. The Dominion of Light
03. III. The Flavour of Tears
04. IV. The Discovery of Fire
Symphony No. 1 for Speaker & Wind Orchestra “A Richer Dust”
05. I. Still We Drudge in This Dark Maze
06. II. Living Picture of the Dead
07. III. Other Flowers Rise
08. IV. The Larks, Still Bravely Singing
A Richer Dust, the epic First Symphony of the English composer Nigel Clarke (b. 1960), explores what it means to live with violence and extremism, the constant companions of human history. The work intertwines words collated from a wide range of sources by the writer Malene Sheppard Skærved with Clarke’s music, weaving together ideas and images in fragments of text from both historically significant figures and voiceless, ordinary people. The dark and powerful atmosphere of the Symphony is prefaced by the bright and sassy sound of Clarke’s Magritte-inspired Mysteries of the Horizon, a concerto for cornet and wind orchestra.