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Sensations of Travel - Chamber music by Nigel Osborne
DCD34198 (Delphian Records Ltd, CD)
DDD
24-bit stereo
NEW RELEASE (22 February 2019)
Playing time: 70'28"
Tracks: 20
Booklet pages: 12
© 2019 Delphian Records Ltd
Main country of recording: UK
Country of manufacture: EU
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Sensations of Travel - Chamber music by Nigel Osborne published on 30 May 2019
Listen: Nigel Osborne: Balkan Dances and Laments (track 12, 4:37-5:36)
Hebrides Ensemble
Nigel Osborne (born 1948):
The Piano Tuner - Three preludes and five fugues for piano trio - version with soundscapes
1 Prelude I - Tuning
2 Fugue I - Tetrachord, Hexachord
3 Prelude II - Sensations of Travel
4 Fugue II - Sea Bird
5 Fugue III - Dragonfly
6 Fugue IV - Tiger
7 Prelude III - Song of Loss
8 Fugue V - Fractal Counterpoint
Espionage - three miniature sonatas - Studies in Poussin and happenstance
9 Et in Arcadia Ego - 'Broken Memories / Digital Surveillance'
10 The Triumph of the Poet - 'Shakespeare in the Kremlin'
11 A Dance to the Music of Time - 'The Art Historian and the Spy / A Sentimental Tune'
12 Balkan Dances and Laments
Ecological Studies
13 White Bird
14 Kuda Kepang - Mudskipper Macaque
15 Osbornia - Makyung
16 Egret - Kingfisher - Sandpiper
17 Zone
18 My beloved, where are you going / Adagio for Vedran Smailović
Preludio y canción
19 Preludio
20 Canción
Recorded 6-8 February and 7 May 2018 at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK