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Airs from Another Planet
Hebrides Ensemble, Ailish Tynan
Airs from Another Planet
Genre: Classical
 
This survey of Judith Weirs often quirky and always engaging music displays some of the concerns that unite her writing for voice and for instruments: storytelling and the gap between truth and fiction; invention and fanta...  more »

     
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All Artists: Hebrides Ensemble, Ailish Tynan
Title: Airs from Another Planet
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Label: Delphian
Release Date: 11/8/2019
Genre: Classical
Style: Chamber Music
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 801918342288

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This survey of Judith Weirs often quirky and always engaging music displays some of the concerns that unite her writing for voice and for instruments: storytelling and the gap between truth and fiction; invention and fantasy; the lessons that can be learned from other times and other cultures. Communication between generations, continents and women lies at the heart of Nuits dAfrique, conceived as a companion piece to Maurice Ravels Chansons madécasses. Its dedicatee, Ailish Tynan, joins the outstanding Hebrides Ensemble players here and in Really?, a resonant sequence of folk-tales set in an idiosyncratic mixture of speech and song. The hymns of the medieval Rhenish saint, poet and composer Hildegard of Bingen underlie two recent chamber pieces, while the early Airs from another Planet imagines how Scottish folk music might sound after several generations of evolution in outer space.