Michael Parsons: Patterns of Connection

Michael Parsons: Patterns of ConnectionThis release is the first major survey of the music of Michael Parsons. Spread across two discs, Patterns of Connection features chamber and solo music dating from 1962, whilst Parsons was still a student at the Royal College of Music, to the present day. The music presented here spans a wide range of writing tonal and chromatic, simple and complex but always coheres to the rigorous ordering principles underlying the music, while displaying a striking

deeply technical

' Fanfare Magazine

'This colourful recital of contemporary works is one of the most compelling and electrifying discs I have heard in a long time

sensitively conveyed by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group' BBC Music Magazine ★★★★★

the romanticism of the three tales is offset by the sardonic humour and down-to-earth attitude of their protagonists

An amateur juggler himself

Airs was recorded on 12 December 2019 at Scholes Street Studio

GUARDIAN FOLK ALBUM OF THE MONTH

Dublin on 12 June 2019

Anna Stéphany soprano

CHRIS CRAKER Recording Producer

FRED SHERRY Concert Producers