R Baker - The Tyranny of Fun
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Label: NMC Recordings
Cat No: NMCD275
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 15th March 2024
Contents
Works
AngelusCrank
Hommagesquisse
Hwyl fawr ffrindiau
Learning to Fly
Motet II
The Tyranny of Fun
To Keep a True Lent
Artists
Richard Baker (diatonic music box)Richard Benjafield (percussion)
Chris Brannick (percussion)
Oliver Janes basset (clarinet)
Melinda Maxwell (oboe)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
CHROMA Ensemble
The Choir of King’s College Cambridge
Conductors
Richard BakerStephen Cleobury
Finnegan Downie Dear
Works
AngelusCrank
Hommagesquisse
Hwyl fawr ffrindiau
Learning to Fly
Motet II
The Tyranny of Fun
To Keep a True Lent
Artists
Richard Baker (diatonic music box)Richard Benjafield (percussion)
Chris Brannick (percussion)
Oliver Janes basset (clarinet)
Melinda Maxwell (oboe)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
CHROMA Ensemble
The Choir of King’s College Cambridge
Conductors
Richard BakerStephen Cleobury
Finnegan Downie Dear
About
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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