Venables / Hoyle: Below the Belt
Venables / Hoyle: Below the Belt
Format: CD
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Artist: Venables / Hoyle
Label: NMC Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5023363023825
Genre: Classical Artists
We can think of no better way to kickstart the second series of NMC's acclaimed showcase for gifted early-career composers than this explosive new album by Philip Venables! Venables is best known for his operatic and theatrical works, exploring themes of sexuality, violence and politics. His music has been described as "brutally effective" (The Times), "duly playful and occasionally disturbing" (The Guardian), and "a dark and violent portrait of sexual desire" (SoSoGay. Com). He made his Royal Opera debut with 4. 48 Psychosis (dir. Ted Huffman) - the first ever permitted adaptation of any of Sarah Kane's work - which won the UK Theatre Award in 2016, a British Composer Award in 2017, and was nominated for both an Olivier Award and a Sky Arts Award. This album includes The Revenge of Miguel Cotto, a performance piece inspired by two boxers, Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito, and scored for ensemble, voices, and two punchbags. Four miniatures, each inspired by one of Benjamin Britten's Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe (Melinda Maxwell) and Numbers, set to the poems of Simon Howard and mixing spoken text with chamber music. The brilliant, ferocious and funny Illusions, featuring David Hoyle's impassioned rant about everything from politics and gender to sodomy and revolution, is the perfect showstopping finale to this eclectic release.
Tracks:
1.1 Love
1.2 Fight
1.3 Crushed Spanish
1.4 They Are Not Like Us
1.5 Ban
1.6 A Mountain - Melinda Maxwell
1.7 I. (Tacet) - Adagio - Phoenix Piano Trio
1.8 II. Scherzo - Phoenix Piano Trio
1.9 III. Rondo - Phoenix Piano Trio
1.10 Fixation - Melinda Maxwell
1.11 I
1.12 II
1.13 III
1.14 Flowers - Melinda Maxwell
1.15 Numbers 91-95
1.16 Fountains - Melinda Maxwell
1.17 Illusions - David Hoyle/London Sinfonietta
