Mark Simpson: Night Music

Mark Simpson: Night MusicThis recording of chamber music pieces by 27 year old composer Mark Simpson features works spanning ten years. All are performed by the musicians and ensembles for whom they were originally written. Mark Simpson's works are most often inspired by dark tones and atmospheres of loss, dreams, hauntings, intimacy and passion and, as with Night Music and Echoes and Embers, often embrace ambiguities of emotion and attitude with extremes of quietude and

Kevin Smith countertenor Bishop Baldwin

pupils and industry colleagues was immense

schismatics was recorded at Coombehurst Studio

of which he has become associated

WH Auden and Rainer Maria Rilke – the latter translated by Olly's friend and musical collaborator Alexander Goehr

the recording is completed with A Talisman

He died too young in 2013 and this double CD is a proper tribute

Caught in Treetops (P) 2011 BBC • At the Speed of Stillness (P) 2014 Aldeburgh Music • Fire Burning in Snow

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Recording Producer / Engineer: DAVID LEFEBER

Chloë Hanslip violin

Ryan Wigglesworth conductors