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Weir’s music — often inspired by her love of nature and her interest in the world around her — is fresh, intelligent, approachable and evocative. Natural History — which she describes as a Taoist Carnival of the Animals—is set to ancient Chinese texts on horses, birds, fish and men and the music hints at an oriental and exotic world and in Moon and Star Weir uses the instruments highest and lowest registers to portray the vast expanse of our universe.
Judith Weir: The Welcome Arrival of Rain
The Welcome Arrival of Rain
Judith Weir: Natural History
No. 1. Horse
No. 2. Singer
No. 3. Swimmer
No. 4. Fish - Bird
Judith Weir: Moon and Star
Moon and Star
Judith Weir: Forest
Forest
Judith Weir: Heroic Strokes of the Bow
Heroic Strokes of the Bow
March 2008
*****
“The performances, under the ever-reliable Martyn Brabbins, are excellent, with Ailish Tynan a personable soloist in Natural History. The recordings are clear and bright, like the music itself.”
August 2008
“…this disc of orchestral works (with or without voices), excellently performed and recorded, is something of a revelation. In instrumental composition, Weir the story-teller becomes Weir the painter, and images of the natural world are celebrated with an often hymnic fervour.”
The Welcome Arrival of Rain
