Richard Causton: Millennium Scenes

Richard Causton: Millennium ScenesMillennium Scenes was written in 1998 99: rather than an empty celebration of the turn of a century, the composer writes that 'I had in mind a series of fleeting images a TV commercial, perhaps, a couple arguing, laughter, a dead animal on the road, religious fervour, a child being hit almost anything, in fact, but all of them real events taking pace around the turn of the millennium.' By contrast with the massive orchestra of Millennium Scenes,

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Catalogue number: NMC D105

Antony Hodgson Producer

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Kim Walker bassoon

Catalogue number: NMC D129

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ANDREW KEENER (eco-pavan) & COLIN MATTHEWS Recording Producer

They are joined by the composer himself in his meditative and transcendent work for oboe and electronics At the Still Point of the Turning World

Philip Sheffield

The Donkey Dances was recorded on 5 March 1993 at Purcell Room

for a composer/bassist who has worked in free improv groups with Derek Bailey and Evan Parker