John McLeod: Moments in Time

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Here we have five bold and bright chamber pieces, chiefly inspired by mythologies from the ancient world…the members of Red Note Ensemble, superb Scottish specialists in the contemporary, deliver... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015 More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2015
Catalogue No: DCD34155
Label: Delphian
Length: 59 minutes

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McLeod, John: The Song of Icarus

Work length9:22

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Red Note Ensemble
Recorded: 10-12 December 2014
Recording Venue: St. Mary's Parish Church, Whitekirk, East Lothian, United Kingdom

McLeod, John: The Song of Dionysius

Work length11:58

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Red Note Ensemble
Recorded: 10-12 December 2014
Recording Venue: St. Mary's Parish Church, Whitekirk, East Lothian, United Kingdom

McLeod, John: A Moment in Time

Work length12:48

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Red Note Ensemble
Recorded: 10-12 December 2014
Recording Venue: St. Mary's Parish Church, Whitekirk, East Lothian, United Kingdom

I. Metamorphosis

Track length8:57

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II. Threnody

Track length3:51

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McLeod, John: The Song of Phryne

Work length11:16

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Red Note Ensemble
Recorded: 10-12 December 2014
Recording Venue: St. Mary's Parish Church, Whitekirk, East Lothian, United Kingdom

McLeod, John: The Song of Leda

Work length13:46

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Red Note Ensemble
Recorded: 10-12 December 2014
Recording Venue: St. Mary's Parish Church, Whitekirk, East Lothian, United Kingdom

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Increasingly acclaimed at home and abroad, Aberdeen-born John McLeod’s music bears all the hallmarks of exuberant colour and precisely imagined fantasy that his early associations with Lennox Berkeley and Witold Lutoslawski would lead one to expect. Recorded during the composer’s 80th birthday year and released to mark Red Note Ensemble’s new recording partnership with Delphian, this landmark collection brings together McLeod’s four mythological ‘songs’ – powerful dramatic scenes in which instruments are elevated to voice-like expression – and a further work which crystallises the theme of a single moment with a long expressive ‘shadow’. The extraordinary chamber musicians gathered here, two of them Delphian solo artists of long standing, display unequalled virtuosity and passion on a disc which is sure to confirm Red Note as among the UK’s premier contemporary music ensembles.

Red Note Ensemble is Scotland’s contemporary music ensemble, commissioning and performing new music from Scotland and around the world. The Ensemble was founded in 2008, and draws its members from the deep talent pool of Scottish new music expertise. Red Note is Associate Contemporary Ensemble at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, an Associate Company of the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and Associate Ensemble of the Sound Festival Aberdeen. In 2013 the ensemble made its Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival debut with an acclaimed three-concert series including the UK premiere of James Dillon’s 'New York Triptych'.

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October 2015

Here we have five bold and bright chamber pieces, chiefly inspired by mythologies from the ancient world…the members of Red Note Ensemble, superb Scottish specialists in the contemporary, deliver every piece with precision and relish

August 2015

Combative and assured playing by the Scottish contemporary music band Red Note Ensemble.

This music, in turn dramatic, serene and — in The Song of Phryne — thoroughly erotic, is brilliantly performed.

31st May 2015

Violent and fragmented, the first movement [of Moments in Time] is uncomfortably visceral, before giving way to a calmly beautiful threnody, tastefully played by Red Note Ensemble. The rest of the disc is taken up with a survey of the 81-year-old composer’s four testingly virtuosic “songs”.

Musical Opinion October-December 2015

This is a most impressive disc of some haunting music, a combination of a deep imagination and profoundly musical creative art. Very strongly recommended.

Herald Scotland 29th December 2015

Not the easiest listening experience you’ll have this year, but one that’s rewarding on two levels: for coming afresh to McLeod’s tribute to Messiaen’s Quartet For The End Of Time, and for the dedicated playing by Red Note Ensemble, who find war and peace in the music’s moments of violence and calm.

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