Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Frederick Delius, Manuel de Falla, Gerald Finzi, Philip Glass, Jessie Montgomery, Max Richter, Philip Sheppard, Toby Young, Frank Zappa
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan
Conductor: Philip Sheppard
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Signum
Catalogue: SIGCD732
Release: 2023
Size: 1.04 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Bach: Prelude in B minor (after BWV855a, arr Siloti)
Richter: The Four Seasons Recomposed
02. II. Spring I
03. Sheppard: Buffalo Jump
04. Zappa: Peaches en Regalia
05. Falla: Nana (No. 5 from Siete canciones populares españolas)
06. Page: The Sea of Time and Space
Young: The Art of Dancing
07. V. Trance
08. Reed: Venus In Furs
09. Gibbons, Utley, Barrow, Hayes: Glory Box
10. O’Halloran, Wiltzie: We Played Some Open Chords And Rejoiced, For The Earth Had Circled The Sun Yet Another Year
11. Montgomery: Starburst
Delius: 2 Aquarelles
12. I. Lento, ma non troppo
Glass: Mishima
13. Closing
Finzi: Dies natalis, Op. 8
14. The Salutation
Completing their cycle of mixtape albums, ‘Echoes’ is Orchestra Of The Swan’s third album on Signum Classics.
Features works by artists including JS Bach, Philip Glass and Frank Zappa and some new arrangements by Artistic Director, David Le Page.
“Although you can listen to each track in isolation ‘Echoes’ is, first and foremost, a complete journey; the way a work ends and another begins is designed to create a frisson, a jolt of recognition or a feeling of surprise and satisfaction.
“‘Echoes’ explores landscape, light, water, dreams, birth and the slowly changing rhythm of the seasons; it also represents a callback to the days of vinyl when the act of listening to recordings was necessarily more involved and required all of your attention.
“Despite the ongoing march of music technology and the death of various beloved formats the mixtape has somehow survived and adapted It is unaccountably more popular than it has ever been.” – David Le Page