We have just finished adding live recordings of Shoals to YouTube! The videos are embedded below, roughly in the sequence of their performance at the premiere of Sounding the Deep on March 17th. The only major difference is that the five movements of Blaze were split up to create ‘interludes’ between each piece.
A montage of music from the central orchestral work, Sounding the Deep, will follow shortly!
Deep Sea Diver
Performed by Yu Min Lim and Alexandra Hazard (sopranos), Graziana Presicce (piano)
Blaze
Conducted by Chris Sykes
Performed by the East Riding Senior Percussion Ensemble (Laura Bradford, Louis Clark, Lottie Dodd, Katie Dodsworth, Sarah Massey, Ruairi Sinkler, Matthew Taylor, Benjamin Wadsworth)
Never Day and Under Night
Conducted by Glenis Malkin
Performed by the Lincolnshire Youth Cello Ensemble (Penny James, Charlotte Lincoln, Maia Howell, Emilia Pearce, Rosie Spinks, Beth Read, Emma Gorst, Harriet Grainger Harvey Adcock, Madeleine Dwyer, Molly Welling, Grace Wilson, Sophia McGill, Mollie Zalas, Matthew Tuball, Georgina Lambe, Alexandra Burkitt, Gaia Pitt-Judd, Lewis Brown,William Cherry, Johanna Valkamo, Rebecca Seamer, Chris Duncombe)
Weird Water Land
Conducted by Andrew Penny
Performed by the Albermarle Wind Quintet (Katie Newton – fl, Ruby Orlowska – ob, Peter Goodwin – cl, George Maynard – fr.hn, Katherine Carter – bsn)
To the Dark Unseen
Conducted by Bob Mitchell
Performed by the East Riding String Dectet (Qianyi Liu, Jacob Phillipson, Grace Sansom, Xiao Yuan Wang – vns; Chloe Salvidge, Philippa Lathan – vas; Bryony Owen, Sophie Walker – vcs; Jonathan Taylor, Frances Tibble – dbs)
Into the Green Inverted Dawn
Conducted by Andrew Penny
Performed by the Cranbrook String Quartet (Conor King, Kieran Lynch – vns; Rachael Windass – va; Felicity Green – vc)
All of the ensembles were recorded during dress rehearsal and performance by Dr. Robert Mackay of Hull University, using a Soundfield microphone and a Sonosax 4 channel recorder.
The electroacoustic treatments were by Niall Thomas, Ben Fowler, Tom Wright and Macon Holt.
The recordings were edited and produced for YouTube by Phil Legard.
