Hebrides Ensemble - Airs from Another Planet (2019) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Nuits d’Afrique: I. Berceuse
02. Nuits d’Afrique: II. Le tam-tam
03. Nuits d’Afrique: III. Crocodile
04. Nuits d’Afrique: IV. Le village
05. 3 Chorales: No. 1, Angels Bending Near the Earth
06. 3 Chorales: No. 2, In Death's Dark Vale
07. 3 Chorales: No. 3, O Sapientia
08. O Viridissima
09. Sketches from a Bagpiper's Album (Version for String Trio): No. 1, Salute
10. Sketches from a Bagpiper's Album (Version for String Trio): No. 2, Nocturne
11. Sketches from a Bagpiper's Album (Version for String Trio): No. 3, Lament
12. Day Break Shadows Flee
13. Really?: No. 1, Incidents in Traffic
14. Really?: No. 2, The Expansion of Porridge
15. Really?: No. 3, What Is Eternity?
16. Airs from Another Planet: No. 1, Strathspey & Reel
17. Airs from Another Planet: No. 2, Traditional Air
18. Airs from Another Planet: No. 3, Jig
19. Airs from Another Planet: No. 4, Bagpipe Air, with Drones


This survey of Judith Weir’s often quirky and always engaging music displays some of the concerns that unite her writing for voice and for instruments: storytelling and the gap between truth and fiction; invention and fantasy; the lessons that can be learned from other times and other cultures.

Communication between generations, continents and women lies at the heart of Nuits d’Afrique, conceived as a companion piece to Maurice Ravel’s Chansons madécasses. Its dedicatee, Ailish Tynan, joins the outstanding Hebrides Ensemble players here and in Really?, a resonant sequence of folk-tales set in an idiosyncratic mixture of speech and song.

The hymns of the medieval Rhenish saint, poet and composer Hildegard of Bingen underlie two recent chamber pieces, while the early Airs from another Planet imagines how Scottish folk music might sound after several generations of evolution in outer space.

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