MZ Gordon - The Impermanence of Things
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Label: NMC Recordings
Cat No: NMCD277
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 19th April 2024
Contents
Artists
Ian Dearden (electronics)Huw Watkins (piano)
Carolin Widmann (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Sinfonietta
Conductors
Catherine Larsen-MaguireJukka-Pekka Saraste
Ryan Wigglesworth
Works
BohorthaThe Impermanence of Things
Violin Concerto
Artists
Ian Dearden (electronics)Huw Watkins (piano)
Carolin Widmann (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Sinfonietta
Conductors
Catherine Larsen-MaguireJukka-Pekka Saraste
Ryan Wigglesworth
About
The album opens with a seven-movement orchestral work performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, which explores our awareness of the passing of time. Time pushes on, time pulls back, before seeming to stand still completely as we journey towards the end of the work. The final movement shares its name with the overall title – Bohortha – which is a tiny village lying at the end of a remote Cornish peninsula, an evocative symbol of open-endedness.
If Bohortha consists of many small, contrasting fragments, the Violin Concerto is constructed more conventionally, with both the work's structure and expressive character being influenced by early exploratory sessions with the soloist, Carolin Widmann. Gordon has commented that he was inspired by ‘just how many nuances of singing she could bring to her instrument: intense and open, strained and fragile’. Lyrical melodies collide with dissonant clusters in this recording by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Catherine Larsen-Maguire.
Conventions are again turned on their head in The Impermanence of Things for piano (Huw Watkins), ensemble (London Sinfonietta) and electronics. Rather than playing the traditional soloist role, the piano instead acts as a linchpin, around which thirteen short movements revolve. Throughout the work, a constant tension between forward and backward, reveals an ultimate yearning for stillness in the present.
Gordon has been the recipient of the Prix Italia, and two British Composer Awards. Two previous portrait discs – On Memory (NMCD144) and In the Middle of Things – were both in The Times's ‘100 Best Albums of the Year’ lists.
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