Composer: Sadie Harrison
Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Roderick Chadwick, Diana Mathews
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0304
Release: 2015
Size: 1.13 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Gallery for Solo Violin, Room 1
01. I. The Flight of Swallows
02. II. Mint Tea in an Empty Medina
03. III. …same strand…
04. IV. Measure for Measure
05. V. The wonder of flying or Time for the night of practise
06. VI. Return from Lysoen
07. VII. Coffee with Aphra Behn: Westminster Abbey Cloisters
08. VIII. Nur punktlich
09. IX. Sheppard’s Meadow
10. X. Two morning lights
11. XI. It rubs off
Gallery for Solo Violin, Room 2
12. I. The writing cabin in the woods
13. II. Scheherazade
14. III. Early Responses to the Thames 1990 I: Twilight … Dawn
15. IV. Practising Sadie Harrison
16. V. Lachrymae after Cotton Eye Joe
17. VI. Stormfactory: Stravinsky ‘Three Pieces’
18. VII. Cymbeline’s Fort
19. VIII. Sarabande/double – walk through the graveyard
20. …ballare una passacaglia di ombre…
Hidden Ceremonies I
21. No. 1. after Antiphon
22. No. 2. after Sacrarium
23. No. 3. after Palimpsest
24. No. 4. after The Intervening Figure
25. No. 5. after Flint
26. No. 6. after Hearth
27. No. 7. after Hidden Ceremony
28. No. 8. after Spine
29. No. 9. after Antler Music
3 Dances for Diana Nemorensis
30. No. 1. Diana
31. No. 2. Hecate
32. No. 3. Selene
…Under the Circle of the Moon…
33. I. The Vision of Anne Catherine Emmerich
34. II. The Life of Skin
35. III. Brahma’s Angels – Indra’s Thunderbolt – Vaivasvata’s Ark
36. IV. The Thousand Songs of Thebes
37. V. Albrecht Durer Self-Portrait 1500 AD – The Frankfurt Zoll
38. VI. Tourmaline
39. VII. The Curse with Turtledoves
The Australian-British Sadie Harrison is no ordinary composer: she is also an archaeologist and a professional gardener. This CD is released to celebrate her 50th birthday. In view of her other occupations, it is hardly surprising that a fascination with historical artefacts and biological processes filters into her music.
The instrumental miniatures on this recording are both reflective 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. The booklet features some of the paintings that inspired the music. Most unusually, one of artists, Peter Sheppard Skærved plays the music inspired by his own painting.
Peter Sheppard Skӕrved is the dedicatee of over 400 works for violin, by composers including Hans Werner Henze, Poul Ruders and David Matthews. Among his more than 60 recordings are cycles of solo-violin sonatas by Tartini and Reicha quartets with Toccata Classics. He is the Viotti Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he was elected Fellow in 2013.