This disc opens our ears, through the agency of a dozen fairly short pieces, to a language that is imaginative, tonal, tuneful and charged with balm. By the way, the sung words for all the vocal pieces are printed on the casing for the disc. Placidly expressed beneficent music radiates from ‘Beatitudines’. There’s an unhurried, irresistibly lambent quality to be heard as in Jeff Beal’s scores for the Jesse Stone television series. Field has a gift for deriving the quintessential nostalgia from his orchestral pieces and these partake a little of pastoral Copland in ‘Oliana's Dream of the Sea’ and become more fraught, surreptitious and heavier with threat in ‘Shiva Tandava’. The Composers’ Choir conducted by Daniel Shaw are persuasive advocates and often able to imbue dazzle much to the advantage of what is being sung. The music hums around a gorgeous tonal centre making much of the velvety extremes of the voice. The Romance and Pastorale (1912-1914), written during an age of innocence, is especially valuable as it distils, early on, the essence of the composer’s love for the British countryside and its ecstasies. The settings do not shrink from classical texts such as ‘Remember’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’ ( In the Bleak Midwinter) by Christina Rossetti and ‘When You are Old’ by W.B. This selection is music from just before the First World War stretching to that written within four years of the composer’s death in the late 1950s.
They triangulate around Vaughan Williams, Holst, Howells and Randall Thompson: tonal and tangy. Another resemblance is to the score by Miguel D’Oliveira for Murder in Provence. It recalls the music of Franco Piersanti in the Inspector Montalbano title music. Nine, Four by Four is an ever so slightly sinister and stimulating piece for wind ensemble. There are twelve shortish pieces, ranging in length from 3:08 to 11:02, each allocated a track. Field describes the musical language he employs as an "eclectic fusion of lyricism and driving rhythm that together elements of post-romanticism, minimalism and jazz." That’s a pretty fair summary of what we hear on this disc.
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His chosen fields have so far been TV and theatre, chamber, ballet, choral (extensive), electro-acoustic and orchestral. There are countless recordings of this seminal Vivaldi work, but few capture the real poetic power of the suite quite as accurately and excitingly as Carmignola. With those two avant-garde figures in his CV we might perhaps expect music of the same stamp. His post-graduate studies were pursued at the Juilliard with Milton Babbitt and elsewhere with Mario Davidovsky.
He holds distinguished academic credentials.
Brian Field had his upbringing in Ohio, USA.
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