Grime: Night Songs
) | Label: NMC Recordings Catalog: NMCD199 Format: CD Marsh; Halle; Halle Soloists; Phillips; ElderComposed by: Grime, Helen Associate Hallé Orchestra composer Helen Grime's (b. 1981) debut disc contrasts orchestral works - including the nocturne Near Midnight (2013), her first Hallé commission - with smaller-scale pieces featuring the Hallé Soloists. Virga is a densely-packed miniature, its textures dominated by falling cascades of woodwind notes. Night Songs, premiered by the BBC SO and Oliver Knussen, was a 2012 BBC Proms commission. Other works include the string sextet ‘Into the faded air’, the Clarinet Concerto featuring Hallé principal Lynsey Marsh and Everyone Sang - inspired by Siegfried Sassoon.  Price: $27.98 |