Performers
Variously: Martin Owen, horn ; Leigh Melrose, baritone ; Peter Kolkay, bassoon ; Charles Neidich, clarinet ; Simon Boyar, marimba ; Lucy Shelton, soprano ; Jon Nelson, trumpet ; Rolf Schulte, violin ; Fred Sherry, violoncello ; Donald Palma, contrabass ; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola ; William Purvis, horn ; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, conductor ; BBC Singers ; New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, Frank Epstein, conductor ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen, conductor ; Juilliard String Quartet.
Contents
Horn concerto (10:32)
Mad regales / on poems of John Ashbery (6:53)
Tintinnabulation (7:56)
Wind rose : for wind ensemble (6:09)
Sound fields : for string orchestra (7:19)
On conversing with paradise / text excerpted from Cantos of Ezra Pound (11:40)
Retracing (1:32)
Clarinet quintet (13:57)
Figment V (1:41)
La musique / text by Charles Baudelaire (2:28)
Retracing III (1:57)
Due duetti (8:42)
Figment III (3:10)
Figment IV (3:06)
Poems of Louis Zukofsky (13:44)
Retracing II (2:35).