Augusta Read Thomas: Of Being is a Bird

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Irresistible forward drive, pausing only for moments of radiant beauty. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2016

Release Date: 8th Apr 2016
Catalogue No: NI6323
Label: Nimbus
Series: Alliance, Recordings of Works by Augusta Read Thomas
Length: 72 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

July 2016

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Thomas, Augusta: Helix Spirals for string quartet

Work length23:05

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Parker Quartet

I. Loci, memory palace

Track length6:38

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II. Interlacing, twists and threads

Track length7:10

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III. Spirals, life force

Track length9:17

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Thomas, Augusta: Selene Octet for Percussion Quartet and String Quartet

Work length16:53

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Third Coast Percussion, Spektral Quartet

Thomas, Augusta: Capricious Toccata

Work length8:03

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Nathan Giem (performer)

Thomas, Augusta: Of Being is a Bird for Solo Soprano and Ensemble

Work length15:10

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Claire Booth
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon

I. Of Being Is A Bird

Track length5:04

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II. Interlude. Flock of Birds

Track length3:43

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III. The Most Triumphant Bird I Ever Knew Or Met

Track length6:23

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Thomas, Augusta: Caprice for solo violin

Work length3:51

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Nathan Cole

Thomas, Augusta: Rush for solo violin

Work length2:25

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$1.40

Nathan Cole

Thomas, Augusta: Love Twitters for Solo Piano

Work length3:14

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Nicola Melville

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This CD, the sixth instalment in this series documenting Augusta Read Thomas' work in all its protean variety, is dominated by some of her most recent music. Except for the last 3 brief works on this programme, which date from 2004-06, the music gathered here dates from 2014-15, effectively turning this CD into a kind of compositional diary for these years.

The New Yorker Magazine called Thomas "a true virtuoso composer.” Rising early to the top of her profession, a member of both The American Academy of Arts and Letters and Academy of Arts and Sciences, former Chairperson of the American Music Center, Thomas has become one of the most recognizable and widely loved figures in American Music. A Member of the Conseil Musical of the Foundation Prince Pierre of Monaco, she has won a Grammy and received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. Her composition Astral Canticle was one of two finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Music.

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July 2016

Irresistible forward drive, pausing only for moments of radiant beauty.

Augusta Read Thomas: Of Being is a Bird

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