Helen Grime: Night Songs

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The performances are a tribute to the dedication of Hallé players, whether in orchestral or ensemble guise, and have all been recorded with the spaciousness and immediacy which this music needs. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2014 More…

Release Date: 22nd Sep 2014
Catalogue No: NMCD199
Label: NMC
Series: Debut Discs
Length: 71 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

December 2014

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Grime: Virga

Work length6:53

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Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder
Recorded: 10-11 March 2014
Recording Venue: Halle St Peter's, Ancoats, Manchester, UK

Grime: Into the faded air

Work length29:31

$5.55

$8.35

Hallé Soloists
Jamie Phillips
Recorded: 13-15 September 2013
Recording Venue: Halle St Peter's, Ancoats, Manchester, UK

I. Con moto

Track length10:18

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$2.30

II. Lento

Track length5:58

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III. Agitato

Track length11:36

$2.05

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IV. Grave

Track length1:39

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Grime: Clarinet Concerto

Work length7:54

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Lynsey Marsh
Hallé Soloists
Jamie Phillips
Recorded: 13-15 September 2013
Recording Venue: Halle St Peter's, Ancoats, Manchester, UK

I. With Vigour

Track length2:44

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II. Free and Enigmatic

Track length2:19

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III. Calmo

Track length2:51

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Grime: A Cold Spring

Work length16:25

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Hallé Soloists
Jamie Phillips
Recorded: 10-11 March 2014
Recording Venue: Halle St Peter's, Ancoats, Manchester, UK

I. Quarter Note = 76

Track length6:15

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$1.50

II. Calmo

Track length4:31

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III. Tumultuous

Track length5:39

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Grime: Everyone Sang

Work length2:37

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Hallé Orchestra
Jamie Phillips
Recorded: 3 March 2014
Recording Venue: Halle St Peter's, Ancoats, Manchester, UK

Grime: Night Songs

Work length4:28

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Hallé Orchestra
Jamie Phillips
Recorded: 6-7 December 2013
Recording Venue: Halle St Peter's, Ancoats, Manchester, UK

Grime: Near Midnight

Work length3:12

$1.00

$1.50

Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder
Recorded: 6-7 December 2013
Recording Venue: Halle St Peter's, Ancoats, Manchester, UK

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Debut Discs is a 4-year series in collaboration with BA (Hons) Graphic Design students at Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts and Design who have designed the cover artwork for the series.

Debut Discs has the ambassadorial support of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

The series features the composers Huw Watkins, Dai Fujikura, Sam Hayden, Richard Causton, Joseph Phibbs, Larry Goves, Ben Foskett and Charlotte Bray.

Born in 1981, Helen Grime studied oboe with John Anderson and composition with Julian Anderson and Edwin Roxburgh at the Royal College of Music. In 2003 she won a British Composer Award for her Oboe Concerto, and was awarded all the major composition prizes in the RCM. In 2008 she was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to study at the Tanglewood Music Center. She became a lecturer in composition at the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, in January 2010. She was appointed Associate Composer to the Hallé in 2011.

Helen has had works commissioned by some of the most established performers including London Symphony Orchestra, BCMG, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center. Conductors who have performed her work include Daniel Harding, Pierre Boulez and Yan Pascal Tortelier. Her work Night Songs was commissioned by the BBC Proms in 2012 and premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Oliver Knussen. Grime's Near Midnight receives its London Premiere at this year's BBC Proms (9 August) with the Hallé & Sir Mark Elder.

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December 2014

The performances are a tribute to the dedication of Hallé players, whether in orchestral or ensemble guise, and have all been recorded with the spaciousness and immediacy which this music needs.

28th September 2014

Grime (b.1981) is a composer of keen accomplishment in a bright modern mode — glittery, incisive, full of leaping lines and incandescent climaxes — perhaps originating in the harmonically astute, orchestrally virtuosic music of figures such as Oliver Knussen and Magnus Lindberg.

Classical Music

a fine introduction to an important voice in contemporary music. Performances are spot-on, not least from the orchestra’s assistant conductor, Jamie Phillips, making an auspicious debut on disc.

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