COMPANY: Naxos
ARTIST: Neil Thomson
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Nigel Clarke

Product: 747313912773

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Nigel Clarke: the Prophecies of Merlin

Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Neil Thomson

The Brussels-based British composer Nigel Clarke is renowned for his virtuosic style, and an uncompromising contemporary musical language that speaks with an authentic voice to today’s audiences. This world premiere recording of his symphony for violin and orchestra The Prophecies of Merlin is inspired by the 12th-century text De gestis Britonum by Geoffrey of Monmouth, and it casts the soloist as the maddened Merlin, either raging alone or caught up in the wild tumult of the orchestra. This score brims with rhythmic drive and bravura orchestration, juxtaposing savage musical outbursts with moments of sheer transcendental beauty.