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Sally Beamish - ´The Seafarer’

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Catalogue numberBIS-1241 CD
Release date2008-01-03
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time58:47

Music Web International: outstanding; International Record Review: outstanding; Gramophone: outstanding.

The British composer Sally Beamish (b. 1956) has been called a ‘striking and personal voice’ whose works ‘combine lyricism and drama with clarity of form’ (Gramophone). The present works were all written during a four-year residency with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and all spring from literary sources. Beamish – herself a viola player – has given her second concerto for the instrument the title The Seafarer. It is inspired by a modern translation of a ninth-century Anglo-Saxon poem with the same title; a poem which reflects a Nordic view of life’s journey, using the metaphor of a sea voyage. The work is dedicated to Tabea Zimmerman, who performs it on this recording. In the case of Whitescape it was the life and work of novelist Mary Shelley which provided the inspiration. In the composer’s own words, it ‘concentrates particularly on the aspects of dream and landscape in Shelley’s novel Frankenstein.’ Sangsters also grew out of a poem, this time written in Scots by Betty McKellar. The sangsters (‘singers’) of the title are sky-larks and seals, and with its three strophes the poem inspired Beamish to a work in three parts, where each movement features different soloists from within the orchestra.

This is the fifth disc on BIS dedicated to the music of Sally Beamish. Two earlier titles have featured orchestral works interpreted by, as on the present CD, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under Ola Rudner. The discs have been highly praised, both for the music and for performances which have been described as ‘immaculate’ (The Observer, UK) and as having ‘that sense of deep commitment and precision missing in so many recordings of modern music’ (Fanfare).
 
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  Composer: Beamish, Sally
  Concerto No.2 for Viola and Orchestra ‘The Seafarer’ 27:39
01 I. Andante irrequieto 07:41 $ 1.61 USD
02 II. Andante malevole 08:10 $ 1.72 USD
03 III. Andante riflessivo 11:48 $ 2.48 USD
 
04 Whitescape 10:22 $ 2.18 USD
 
  Sangsters 19:31
05 I. Laverocks. Andante – Allegro 04:58 $ 1.04 USD
06 II. Selkies. Adagio 07:52 $ 1.65 USD
07 III. Choir-sang. Andante maestoso 06:41 $ 1.40 USD
 
  Album total 58:47
OrchestraSvenska Kammarorkestern
ComposerBeamish, Sally
ConductorRudner, Ola
ViolaZimmermann, Tabea

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