Phantom Images

Phantom ImagesPhantom Images celebrates the intertwining of improvisation and electronics. Its four tracks present innovative approaches to instruments, novel deployment of electronic processing, and what might be the strangest orchestra ever recorded. The album is at times serious, at times chaotic, at times sinister, but the underlying character is one of play: adventure, joy, exchange, even a certain mischievousness. Katherine Young is one of the leading voices

The composers Mark-Anthony Turnage

Switzerland

featuring performances by the RNCM's acclaimed New Ensemble and Wind Orchestra

Catalogue number: HCR34

‘Il suo linguaggio musicale appare come un tentativo di gettare un pontre tra I compositori inglesi del primo Novecento (Ralph Vaughan Williams

classical discipline and surreal humour

and hopefully also the public

Her sound is frequently described as ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-defying’ and her music has been performed everywhere from the BBC Last Night of the Proms to rock and pop festivals

and on numerous occasions Emmerson’s close engagement with the grain and contour of individual sounds yields moments of exquisite sensitivity" Nathaniel Otley - Tempo

its libretto by David Harsent

" John Fallas

1 in the Sunday Times’ 100 Best Records of the Year (Contemporary Music section)