Errollyn Wallen: Photography
Matthew Sharp (cello), Tim Harries (bass guitar)
Ensemble X, The Continuum Ensemble & Ensemble X, Quartet X, Nicholas Kok, Philip Headlam, Errollyn Wallen
The English pastoral tradition appears [with] the extended opening soliloquy of her 2007 Cello Concerto rising and hovering like a lark ascending. Snippets of Bachian figuration, Britten-ish...
Errollyn Wallen: Photography
Matthew Sharp (cello), Tim Harries (bass guitar)
Ensemble X, The Continuum Ensemble & Ensemble X, Quartet X, Nicholas Kok, Philip Headlam, Errollyn Wallen
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The English pastoral tradition appears [with] the extended opening soliloquy of her 2007 Cello Concerto rising and hovering like a lark ascending. Snippets of Bachian figuration, Britten-ish...
About
After reading Music at Goldsmiths’, King’s College London and King’s College Cambridge she performed as a keyboard player with numerous bands, on the comedy circuit, ran a commercial recording studio and wrote the music and performed live as a tap-dancing hostess on a UK television game show.
She was the fi rst black woman to have her work performed at the BBC Proms and the first female recipient of the Ivor Novello Award for Classical Music.
Errollyn’s music has been played in outer space on the NASA STS-115 mission and at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Contents and tracklist
- Matthew Sharp
- Ensemble X
- Nicholas Kok
- The Continuum Ensemble
- Philip Headlam
- Ensemble X
- Nicholas Kok
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Awards and reviews
July 2016
The English pastoral tradition appears [with] the extended opening soliloquy of her 2007 Cello Concerto rising and hovering like a lark ascending. Snippets of Bachian figuration, Britten-ish pizzicato, Tippett-like blueseyness, all come together in the richly expressive playing of Matthew Sharp, for whom this virtuosic single-movement pieces was written.
24th March 2016
Her writing sounds instinctive. Moods are blatant, gestures are unambiguous, she pinches from baroque, jazz, film, romantic and minimalist idioms and wears those influences bright and proud on her sleeve.
