FOSKETT Dinosaur
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Composer or Director: Ben Foskett
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: NMC
Magazine Review Date: AW2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 67
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: NMCD195
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Five Night Pieces |
Ben Foskett, Composer
Ben Foskett, Composer Richard Uttley, Piano |
Hornet II |
Ben Foskett, Composer
Ben Foskett, Composer Geoffrey Paterson, Conductor London Sinfonietta Mark van de Wiel, Clarinet |
From Trumpet |
Ben Foskett, Composer
Ben Foskett, Composer Hallé Orchestra Nicholas Collon, Conductor |
On From Four |
Ben Foskett, Composer
Ben Foskett, Composer Psappha |
Dinosaur |
Ben Foskett, Composer
Ben Foskett, Composer Eric Lamb |
Cinq Chansons à Hurle-Vent |
Ben Foskett, Composer
Ben Foskett, Composer Jean-François Becquaert, Soprano saxophone Raphaële Kennedy, Soprano |
Author: Richard Whitehouse
On From Four (2011) marked the 400th anniversary of Hatfield House and derives its inspiration through a distinctly modern take on the ‘broken consort’, juxtaposing its elegiac and energetic passages so as to bring about a more impulsive continuation. Gesture and line are the salient aspects of Dinosaur (2012), a solo flute piece whose ancestry in Debussy and Varèse does not impede an individual persona from emerging over three sections of mounting animation and technical panache. Finally, Cinq Chansons à Hurle-Vent (2012) sets poems by Laure Salama in which the principal characters of Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë as well as Cathy and Heathcliff – meet in a song-cycle whose intertwining soprano and soprano saxophone make a virtue of their registral similarity, resulting in music as poised as it is plangent. The excellence of the performances enhances a disc that leaves one fascinated as to where Foskett is headed next.
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