Stolen Rhythm by Rambert Orchestra

Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Rambert Orchestra

Stolen Rhythm

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Format: CD
Label: Champs Hill
UPC: 5060212591241
Catnr: CHRCD 119
Release date: 08 September 2017
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Label
Champs Hill

UPC
5060212591241

Catalogue number
CHRCD 119

Release date
08 September 2017

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About the album

Admired for her originality and fluency, Cheryl Frances-Hoad has been composing to commission since she was fifteen. Classical tradition (she trained as a cellist and pianist at the Yehudi Menuhin School before going up to Cambridge, gaining a Double First, and then King's College, London), along with contemporary influences including literature, painting and dance, have contributed to a creative presence provocatively her own. 'Intricate in argument, sometimes impassioned, sometimes mercurial, always compelling in its authority' (Robin Holloway, The Spectator), weaving 'an astonishing tapestry of vocal and emotional colours' drenched 'in dramatic expression of the most ravishing intensity' (Matthew Wright, The Arts Desk), her output - widely premiered, broadcast and commercially recorded, reaching audiences from the Proms to school workshops - addresses all genres from opera, ballet and concerto to song, chamber and solo music.

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Rambert Orchestra

The Rambert Orchestra boasts some of London’s finest ensemble players, who tour the UK to accompany all of Rambert’s performances in the large-scale regional theatres. Rambert Orchestra grew out of Rambert’s former associate orchestra, London Musici, which first appeared with Rambert, under Mark Stephenson, in 1994. Rambert is known for its wide-ranging dance repertoire. Rambert seeks to promote a variety of new young choreographers, as well as bring established international choreographers to the UK, and mine the extensive archive for older classics. Musically, the repertoire is just as diverse, and Rambert Orchestra readily turns its hand to a huge range of styles. In recent seasons the Rambert Music Fellows have provided a number of significant new works: Gavin Higgins’ What Wild...

Rambert is known for its wide-ranging dance repertoire. Rambert seeks to promote a variety of new young choreographers, as well as bring established international choreographers to the UK, and mine the extensive archive for older classics. Musically, the repertoire is just as diverse, and Rambert Orchestra readily turns its hand to a huge range of styles. In recent seasons the Rambert Music Fellows have provided a number of significant new works: Gavin Higgins’ What Wild Ecstasy was commissioned for New Music 2012 as a response to Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi (played in a new orchestration by Mark Bowden). Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Quark Dances received dozens of performances in 2014 and 2015, as part of Mark Baldwin’s ballet The Strange Charm of Mother Nature. In recent years Rambert Orchestra has also received critical praise for performances of Bach, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Mahler, Wagner, Schubert and Cole Porter.

David Cohen, Paul Hoskins and Rambert Orchestra gave the premiere of Katharsis at the Spitalfields Festival in June 2014.

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Phoenix Piano Trio

Paul Hoskins (conductor)

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

David Cohen (cello)

Composer(s)

Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Admired for her originality, fluency and professionalism, Cheryl Frances-Hoad has been composing to commission since she was fifteen. Classical tradition (she trained as a cellist and pianist at the Menuhin School before going on to Cambridge and King’s College, London) along with diverse contemporary inspirations including literature, painting and dance, have contributed to a creative presence provocatively her own.
"Intricate in argument, sometimes impassioned, sometimes mercurial, always compelling in its authority" (Robin Holloway, The Spectator), her output – widely premièred, broadcast and commercially recorded, reaching audiences from the Proms to outreach workshops – addresses all genres from opera, ballet and concerto to song, chamber and solo music. Her works include From the Beginning of the World, a setting of Tycho Brahe's remarkably prescient thesis on the Great Comet of 1577 (BBC Proms, 2015), Pay Close Attention, a homage to electronic music gods The Prodigy, The Whole Earth Dances, a quintet influenced by the local landscape and the poetry of Ted Hughes (Spitalfields Festival, 2016) and Game On, a duet for piano and Commodore 64 inspired by Game Theory and the crimes of bankers (NonClassical at the Dalston Victoria, 2016).

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