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TAKING FLIGHT Sadie Harrison's music is instantly recognisable from that of any other composer of her generation. She has a potent sense of instrumental colour and a distinctive rhythmic vigour permeates all of her output. Here a programme of her exotic chamber music is presented by leading musicians in the contemporary music field. |
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| playing time: 70.11 direct sale price: £8.50 audio sample: Taking Flight (extract) |
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tracks: Taking Flight Sadie Harrison's music is published by University of York Music Press |
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| "Rhythm and lyricism held in perfect balance in a young Australian composer's rewarding programme of chamber and vocal works. The playing is shapely and eloquent, the recording well-defined to a fault. This is a debut which leaves you eager to hear more from such a versatile and accomplished composer.” – Gramophone | |||
| “I am indebted for the discovery of this remarkable Australian's music. The title work, the string quartet Taking Flight… [is] I think, a masterpiece. Great performances all, and nicely recorded.” - Grant Chu Covell (La Folia) | |||
| “This is said to be the first recording devoted to music by Sadie Harrison, and it shows her to have a compelling, distinctive, and passionate compositional voice. The performances on this disc are generally very good, and the recorded sound excellent… this disc is definitely worth exploring.” – Classical London | |||
| “Music of real individuality and purpose, in excellent recordings.” – HiFi News and Record Review | |||
| “Harrison's music is often beguiling and has vivid extra-musical resonances. She's in the category of what could be described as domesticated modernism - tonal composers who are aware of modernist gestures while aware of the danger of audience-alienation. Harrison is a composer to look out for.” - Andy Hamilton (The Wire) | |||
| “Sadie Harrison has an original imagination that expresses itself in a fluent, thoughtfully poetic language.” – Stephen Pettitt (The Sunday Times) | |||