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Richard Baker : The Tyranny of Fun. Benjafield, Brannick, Janes, Maxwell, Baker, Dear, Cleobury.
Format : 1 CD
Total Time : 01:00:37

Recording : 2004-2023
Country : Royaume-Uni
Sound : Stereo

Label : NMC
Catalog No. : NMCD275
EAN : 5023363027526
Price Code : DM021A

Publishing Year : 2024
Release Date : 01/03/2024

Genre : Classical
Richard Baker (1972-)
"Crank", pour boîte à musique diatonique
"Motet II", pour ensemble
"The Tyranny of Fun", pour orchestre
"Angelus", pour percussions
"Learning to Fly", pour clarinette basse et orchestre
Boisterous
Somnolent
Suddenly Awake
"To Keep a True Lent", pour choeur
"Hommagesquisse", pour orchestre
"Hwyl fawr ffrindlau", pour hautbois et orchestre

Richard Benjafield, percussion
Chris Brannick, percussion
Oliver James, clarinette basse
Melinda Maxwell, hautbois
The Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, direction
Chroma Ensemble
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Richard Baker, boîte à musique diatonique, direction
Finnegan Dowie Dear, direction

The latest release in NMC's acclaimed Debut Disc series comes from one of the foremost composer-conductors of his generation, Richard Baker. His first full-length portrait album The Tyranny of Fun brings together a collection of Baker's chamber works composed between 1994 and 2022, performed by a varied range of musical forces. Baker's compositions weave a tapestry of eclectic creative catalysts and reference points, often using existing fragments of music, film, or choreography as their starting point. In the liner notes for this album, Steph Power writes that "the music of Richard Baker reveals a refined sensibility deeply engaged with the structures and experience of meaning in contemporary culture". Several works on this new album were born from Baker's close relationship with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in recent years. The title work is inspired by George Balanchine's ballet La Valse, but adopts the late 70s and early 80s disco of pre-AIDS epidemic New York as its musical material. Also composed against the backdrop of tumultuous world events is the more recent work Motet II for CHROMA Ensemble, which Baker wrote while watching the wave of international protests against structural racism provoked by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, from his home in rural Wales.Other focal points on the album include the concertante work Learning to Fly which features the unusual timbre of the basset clarinet played by soloist Oliver Janes, and the short choral work To Keep a True Lent, performed by the Choir of King's College Cambridge under the direction of the late Sir Stephen Cleobury.

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