Joe Cutler: Elsewhereness

Joe Cutler: ElsewherenessJoe Cutler's debut portrait album Bartlebooth (NMC D134) was released on NMC in 2008 and was one of Gramophone Magazines Top 20 Releases of the Year. His music has been described as propulsive (BBC Music Magazine), alluring (Scotsman), neurotic (Re Diffusion) and the best thing to come out of Neasden since Twiggy (Gramophone). Released to mark Joe's 50th birthday, this album features six works, all with typically wild and amusing titles that make you

Gerald Barry's riotous opera brings out the savagery beneath the genteel Edwardian manners of Wilde's play: its score includes gunshots

one of three live recordings on the disc

CRAIG VEAR

Substratum follows in a similiar vein but includes contrast between passages of frantic activity and sudden periods of stasis when notes are sustained as if frozen in time

Ashley Riches bass

watching Julian Warburton play it was a fascinating show in itself’

the Moon Goddess)

Release Date: 1 January 1993

'Unquestionably recommendable - Nicholas Daniel is a superb soloist

The Dream of the Rood is inspired by and uses text adapted by Casken from the Anglo-Saxon poem of the same name which dramatically describes the story of the crucifixion in a highly original portrayal of Christ’s death coupled with Casken’s own arrangement of Pérotin’s Viderunt omnes

Yet another treat is Morgan Hayes’s Shatner’s Bassoon

Ryan Wigglesworth conductors