Ed Hughes: Time, Space & Change New Music Players, Orchestra of Sound and Light, Nicholas Smith, Ed Hughes

• Ed Hughes (b. 1968): Cuckmere, a Portrait:
• 1 Cuckmere, a Portrait: Prelude 02:00
• 2 Cuckmere, a Portrait: I. Autumn 06:30
• 3 Cuckmere, a Portrait: Interlude I 01:30
• 4 Cuckmere, a Portrait: II. Winter 06:30
• 5 Cuckmere, a Portrait: Interlude II 01:23
• 6 Cuckmere, a Portrait: III. Spring 04:58
• 7 Cuckmere, a Portrait: Interlude III 01:27
• 8 Cuckmere, a Portrait: IV. Summer 06:15
• Ed Hughes:
• 9 Media vita 10:34
• Sinfonia:
• 10 Sinfonia: I. Agincourt 02:32
• 11 Sinfonia: II. Stella celi extirpavit 02:54
• 12 Sinfonia: III. Veni sancte spiritus 07:07
• 13 Sinfonia: IV. In iejunio et fletu 06:34
• 14 Sinfonia: V. Silver Swan 04:20
• 15 Sinfonia: VI. In nomine 06:56
• Total Runtime 01:11:30

Info for Ed Hughes: Time, Space & Change

Ed Hughes is a master of composition to the highest degree; his works have been premiered and performed around the world and include operas, music for silent films, chamber, orchestral and piano works – and those just on his recordings for Metier. He has received commissions from London Sinfonietta, The Opera Group, Brighton Festival, Glyndebourne and major ensembles. He won the British Composer Award for his Chaconne for Jonathan Harvey. This new album reflects his deep interest in ancient music and poetry (as demonstrated by Sinfonia for chamber orchestra), and also the landscape and natural features of Sussex (Cuckmere: A Portrait) but however local the inspiration, Hughes’s work has universal appeal.

New Music Players Piano Trio (on track 9)
New Music Players (on tracks 10-15)
Nicholas Smith, conductor
Orchestra of Sound and Light (on tracks 1-8)
Ed Hughes, conductor

Ed Hughes
He studied music at Cambridge University, including composition with Robin Holloway and Alexander Goehr, and at Southampton University with Michael Finnissy. Commissions include The Opera Group, London Sinfonietta, Glyndebourne, I Fagiolini, and, for the Brighton Festival, Brighton: Symphony of a City (2016), Battleship Potemkin (2005) and Memory of Colour (2004) which transferred to the Sydney Festival in 2005; performances include BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra and many ensembles and soloists. His choral work, A Buried Flame (2010), was selected for performance at the 2012 ISCM World Music Days in Antwerp by Aquarius. When the Flame Dies, a chamber opera, was premiered at the 2012 Canterbury Festival. His work has been recorded on two discs for Metier Records and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and internationally. The New Music Players, an ensemble he founded and directs, recorded his original music to silent films by Sergei Eisenstein and Yasujiro Ozu for release by Tartan and BFI. He won a British Composer Award for Chaconne for Jonathan Harvey.

Ed Hughes founded the Orchestra of Sound and Light in 2015 to explore and enhance ensemble music-making and has been touring schools, HE and FE in Sussex with specially written ‘expandable scores’ and networked iPads. He was commissioned by the Brighton Festival 2016 to write ‘Brighton: Symphony of a City’, a collaboration with film maker Lizzie Thynne, for an expanded Orchestra of Sound and Light; the world premiere performance on 12 May 2016 sold out Brighton Dome. He is currently Professor of Composition at Sussex University.

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