Anthony Marwood, Sharon Bezaly - Sally Beamish: Violin Concerto, Callisto, Symphony No.1 (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 78:35 | 322 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-CD-1601
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 78:35 | 322 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-CD-1601
Britain-to-Scotland transplant Sally Beamish wasn't just self-taught as an orchestral composer: you might say she learned by doing. According to her notes on this BIS release, one of a group covering her orchestral output, she had never written an orchestral piece or even studied orchestration when the city of Reykjavik, Iceland, commissioned her Symphony No. 1 in 1994. The result was a work full of unusual sonorities, rather loosely woven but constantly surprising, that drew on various features (formal and textural, not tonal) of the music of Scotland.