New Music Players, Primrose Piano Quartet, Ed Hughes - Ed Hughes: Music for the South Downs (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Flint: I. —
02. Flint: II. —
03. Flint: III. —
04. Nonet: I. Con moto
05. Nonet: II. Tranquil
06. Nonet: III. Flowing
07. Lunar 1
08. Lunar 2
09. Chroma
10. The Woods so Wild: I. —
11. The Woods so Wild: II. —
12. The Woods so Wild: III. —



Let Judith Weir, Master of the Queens Music, introduce this album: Ed Hughes' refreshing, cultured, lovingly patterned music is built around a thoroughly contemporary theme; our present-day contemplation. Our perceptions constantly change and re-energise as we encounter familiar objects while colours, shadings and vegetation are in a constant flow of development. The same can be certainly said of all the works in this rich collection, which surge forward with textural warmth and harmonic continuity. Ed Hughes is a master of composition to the highest degree; his works have been premiered and performed around the world and include operas, music for silent films, chamber, orchestral and piano works and those are just the works on his recordings for Mtier. He has received commissions from London Sinfonietta, The Opera Group, Brighton Festival, Glyndebourne and major ensembles. He won the British Composer Award for his Chaconne for Jonathan Harvey. Inspired by the South Downs, a range of chalk hills extending about 260 square miles across the South East of England; but however local the inspiration, Hughess work has universal appeal.

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