Saylor - The Hunting of the Snark, Silent Film Scores | Naxos 8572685

Saylor - The Hunting of the Snark, Silent Film Scores

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8572685

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 26th September 2011

Contents

Artists

Cantate Chamber Singers
Snark Pit-Band
Snark Ensemble

Conductor

Gisele Becker

Works

Carluzzo, Phil

Stolen Goods

Saylor, Maurice

Publicity Pays
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in 8 Fits

Simpson, Andrew Earle

Too Many Mammas

Artists

Cantate Chamber Singers
Snark Pit-Band
Snark Ensemble

Conductor

Gisele Becker

About

Maurice Saylor’s setting of Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark is written for a chorus and ‘Snarkestra’, Saylor’s word for his quirky, misfit pit-band. This includes all manner of percussion and woodwinds, as well as such exotica as harmonica, bass accordion and washtub, instruments “reviled by society at large”, in Saylor’s words. To the nonsense text he brings a riot of colour and wit as well as a series of traditional devices such as refrains, sea chanties and a chorale. The result is music of vibrancy, excitement and even dangerous volatility.

The three silent film scores are pacey, dapper and splendidly jazzy.

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