Ed Hughes: Time, Space and Change
Orchestra of Sound and Light, New Music Players, Ed Hughes, Nicholas Smith
Awards:
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
Ed Hughes’s music comes as a refreshing change … He writes in a trajectory from the earliest English vocal music composers of the 14th century down to the present day, His ability to adapt,...
Ed Hughes: Time, Space and Change
Orchestra of Sound and Light, New Music Players, Ed Hughes, Nicholas Smith
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Awards:
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
Ed Hughes’s music comes as a refreshing change … He writes in a trajectory from the earliest English vocal music composers of the 14th century down to the present day, His ability to adapt,...
About
Ed Hughes is a master of composition to the highest degree; his works have been premiered and performed around the world and include operas, music for silent films, chamber, orchestral and piano works and those just on his recordings for Métier. He has received commissions from London Sinfonietta, The Opera Group, Brighton Festival, Glyndebourne and major ensembles. He won the British Composer Award for his Chaconne for Jonathan Harvey. This new album reflects his deep interest in ancient music and poetry (as demonstrated by Sinfonia for chamber orchestra), and also the landscape and natural features of Sussex (Cuckmere: A Portrait) but however local the inspiration, Hughess work has universal appeal.
Contents and tracklist
- Orchestra of Sound and Light
- Ed Hughes
Awards and reviews
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The Times Records of the Year2020
March 2020
Ed Hughes’s music comes as a refreshing change … He writes in a trajectory from the earliest English vocal music composers of the 14th century down to the present day, His ability to adapt, recreate and bend this music to his own voice is remarkable.
1st March 2020
The title of this rich disc alludes to England and its music. Cuckmere: A Portrait is the transformed score for a film about a river, the idiom a sort of cheerily naturalised minimalism. Repetition yields to free-floating metrics in the piano trio Media Vita, based on John Sheppard’s motet; historical revisiting is the formative principle of the Sinfonia (Smith conducts). The technique recalls Peter Maxwell Davies; the sensibility is different
