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2021-11-24 08:15:31
From complex juggling patterns to cartoon sound-tracks to Melville's Moby Dick; the inspirations behind Ryan Latimer's vividly coloured and richly energised music are many and varied
[…] Latimer writes in a sparer way. And throughout the piece, it is the vivid juxtapositions of textures, rhythms and energies that count. Speaking of Letters and Dancing is a three movement work for mezzo-soprano and small ensemble dating from 2018, and here performed by Loki Ensemble with mezzo-soprano Rosie Middleton and conductor Daniele Rosina, who premiered the work in 2018. There are three letters, two by Polish poet and playwright, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska and one by Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa. Latimer rather treats the voice instrumentally, another line around which the instruments create evocative rhythmic patterns, though the third song has a real change of mood, becoming quietly evocative and atmospheric. Slink & Stride was written in 2019 for piano and percussion as part of Psappha's Composing for... programme, and was written for pianist Ben Powell and percussionist Tim Williams who premiered it in 2021 at Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester. The piece is based around short motifs […]
2020-06-05 08:06:16
A sense of shimmering silence: music by the Catalan composer Josep Maria Guix on Images of broken light from Neu records
[…] remains evanescent and fragile, with each gesture telling. Though written for ensemble, this is not large scale music and Guix uses his range of instruments to give himself a wider palette of colours. This is music where each gesture tells, and where silence is important. And at the end, it lapses into silence again. Next comes a work for violin, cello and piano, Slowly ... in a mist, which takes a text by Issa Kobayashi (1763=1828) as a starting point, 'the lake is slowly lost in mist... evening falls', words which capture a sense of change of reality and a freezing of time. And each movement is linked to one of Kobayashi's haikus. Again, it starts from silence, and a series of apparently unrelated gestures. The three movements present music that is spare and atmospheric, with a remarkable degree of control over the variety of textures so that […]
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