White Dawn: Songs and Soundscapes by David Lumsdaine
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Label: Metier
Cat No: MSV28519
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 15th November 2010
Contents
Works
A Little Cantata - Tracey Chadwell in memoriamA Norfolk Songbook
A Tree telling of Orpheus
Blue upon Blue
Cambewarra
Metamorphosis at Mullet Creek
Postcard Pieces (6)
Soundscapes
Artists
Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano)John Turner (recorder)
Peter Lawson (piano)
Gemini
Conductor
Martyn BrabbinsWorks
A Little Cantata - Tracey Chadwell in memoriamA Norfolk Songbook
A Tree telling of Orpheus
Blue upon Blue
Cambewarra
Metamorphosis at Mullet Creek
Postcard Pieces (6)
Soundscapes
Artists
Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano)John Turner (recorder)
Peter Lawson (piano)
Gemini
Conductor
Martyn BrabbinsAbout
David Lumsdaine has been making soundscapes since 1983. The five on these discs are late ones, and presented chronologically could be made to sound like the outcome of the notated music. In reality, however, the reverse is the case. In the mid-1960s, he would at the right time of the year head off to, say, the Solent to record the flocking of waders. Those amazing gestural sounds, of flocks rising and calling, slowly began to affect his musical language. Consequently, on these discs there is an interactive rhythmic flow, back and forth between soundscape and human music. Initially the latter appears to live in the soundscapes, but by disc 2 it has absorbed their quality of spaciousness and broad rhythm into its own aural landscape. All the soundscapes are in their own way compositions in any case, since they are not simple, passive recordings but carefully-edited assemblages.
His mature compositions tend to form trilogies, widely-spaced in time though each constituent work may have been. The soundscapes, however, follow a rule of their own, yet, as will be heard on these discs, are an integral part of Lumsdaine’s strikingly original compositional vision.
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