Release date: 25 April 2025
Light Flowing is an album of works for cello performed by Clare O’Connell as part of NMC’s Artist Series. The album features works by composers Edmund Finnis, Nick Martin, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Natalie Klouda, Emily Hall and Alex Mills and is inspired and tied together conceptually by ideas of light, depth, simplicity, the search for a perfect line, and capturing an otherworldly beauty that these carefully chosen composers represent within their different sound worlds.
Speaking about the album, cellist Clare O’Connell said: ‘This body of work expresses what I want to hear and play on the cello. I am always looking for new music which represents how I think and feel and so I began looking for an introverted introspective simplicity, which I hoped would transport the listener to a place of peace. It has been a huge privilege to explore with them all, and I’m enormously proud of what has been created.’
O’Connell is joined on the album with harpist Eleanor Turner for Alex Mills’ work Zenith for cello and harp; and double bassist Marianne Schofield for Figures of Eight for cello and double bass by Edmund Finnis.
Clare O'Connell cello
Eleanor Turner harp
Marianne Schofield double bass
Edmund Finnis, Emily Hall, Alex Mills, Nick Martin, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch & Natalie Klouda composers
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NMC Recordings is a charitable company (reg. no. 328052) established for the recording of contemporary music by the Holst Foundation; it is grateful for funding from Arts Council England and The Delius Trust.
RECORDING CREDITS
Recorded at St Martin’s Church, East Woodhay on 15, 16 and 17 August 2024 and in the Angela Burgess Recital Hall at the Royal Academy of Music on 30 August 2024
VIDDA LE FEBER Recording engineer, Mixing, Mastering
SUPPORTED BY
PRS Open Fund
Vaughan WIlliams Foundation
Hinrichsen Foundation
DAVID GRINLEY Cover image
JAMIE CURREY Cover design
THOM ASHWORTH Booklet design
NMC Recordings is a charitable company (reg. no. 328052) established for the recording of contemporary music by The Holst Foundation; it is grateful for funding from Arts Council England and The Delius Trust.
© NMC Recordings Ltd 2025
Catalogue number: NMC D287