Tansy Davies: Nature

Tansy Davies: NatureRelease date: 23 April 2021 With music that is 'sleek, hot, earthy, and physical', Tansy Davies's first orchestral album, Nature, brings together four exuberant works from the last decade. In a piece which questions the very nature of a piano concerto, pianist Huw Watkins shows off the physicality of the piano in Nature, with it transforming into an 'athletic figure, running fearlessly through dense forest at night, invoking spirits.' Coupled with the

head of undergraduate composition and the co-director of the Centre for Research in New Music

This recording of chamber music pieces by 27-year-old composer Mark Simpson features works spanning ten years

and the Ernest Cook Trust

Hornet II and Dinosaur were recorded at All Saints Church

ranging from direct quotation of the 1608 original

Catalogue number: NMC D195

Eoin Brady Recording Producer

Aldeburgh Festival (including pieces for Mahler Chamber Orchestra and for Marian Consort)

‘The writing is finely textured

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South Bank Centre

there is a diversity of approach from composers young and not so young here