VA - Emily Howard: The Anvil (2023) [Hi-Res]

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Artist: Various Artists, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers, Hallé Choir, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Kate Royal, Claire Booth, Hugh Cutting, Christopher Purves
Title: Emily Howard: The Anvil
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Delphian Records
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) [48kHz/24bit]
Total Time: 1:00:52
Total Size: 589 / 251 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01 Hallé Choir - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": I. Heavy stone harvest
02 Kate Royal - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": II. Pelt of rough turf
03 Christopher Purves - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": III. Battered shuttles
04 Kate Royal - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": IV. The Commissioner for Paving
05 BBC Singers - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": V. Fife drums love command liberty
06 Kate Royal - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": VI. A lake of hats
07 Christopher Purves - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": VII. We walk in communion
08 Christopher Purves - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": VIII. We ask for sustenance and suffrage
09 Kate Royal - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": IX. The order comes
10 Christopher Purves - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": X. Were we quickened from brick-dust
11 Kate Royal - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": XI. Sabred and stabbed
12 BBC Singers - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": XII. The field turns inside out
13 BBC Singers - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": XIII.Some of our cry is their cry
14 Kate Royal - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": XIV. Now, when you see a blush
15 Christopher Purves - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": XV. Ghosts conjured from cotton smoke
16 Kate Royal - The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": XVI. Our shibboleth
17 Claire Booth - Elliptics: I. Like a bird that has hit glass
18 Hugh Cutting - Elliptics: II. Be quiet, you say
19 Claire Booth - Elliptics: III. On the way, I reckoned up trios of street-lamps
20 Claire Booth - Elliptics: IV. Rooks wake, warn and clatter
21 Claire Booth - Elliptics: V. The long-gone and the not-yet-here
22 Claire Booth - Elliptics: VI. Full-tilt towards infinity
23 Claire Booth - Elliptics: VII. Night-long drive
24 Claire Booth - Elliptics: VIII. Houses dark and steep, oblivious
25 Claire Booth - Elliptics: IX. Love alone brooks resurrection
26 Claire Booth - Elliptics: X. Under our feet, below the sewers
27 Claire Booth - Elliptics: XI. Seven swans in grief
28 Claire Booth - Elliptics: XII. Wildfires on the bare hills
29 Claire Booth - Elliptics: XIII.Like a bird that has hit glass
30 Claire Booth - Elliptics: XIV. Beyond these walls is so much silence
31 Claire Booth - Elliptics: XV. Dusk that never blossoms. Endless vespers

The imagined sounds of mass protest run through composer Emily Howard’s and poet Michael Symmons Roberts’s The Anvil, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Manchester International Festival to mark the bicentenary of the 1819 Peterloo massacre, in which crowds protesting for universal suffrage in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, were brutally crushed.

To a solo soprano who narrates and remembers and a baritone who seems caught in the action, the work adds the immense forces of four choirs – each given music tailored to its particular capabilities, from professional to amateur – and the BBC Philharmonic to ask: what future was being forged in the tragic events that took place that day?

A second collaboration between Howard and Symmons Roberts, Elliptics, is quieter, more elegiac: a meditation on love and death, and on what we hope will survive.

Emily Howard: The Anvil Hi-Res.rar - 589.4 MB
Emily Howard: The Anvil FLAC.rar - 251.6 MB