Release Date: 1 November 1995
Byrnan Wood was inspired by Shakespeare's famous peripatetic forest in Macbeth; it explores the possibilities offered by the permutation of stillness into movement, as musical figures pass between players like Chinese whispers.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis conductor
AUDIO
REVIEWS
'Sawer's writing is full of vivid ideas and crisp shapes; the whole piece has a machine-like inevitability about it that generates real physical excitement, and it is well caught in the BBC Symphony's performance under Andrew Davis.' The Guardian
'brought to abrasive life in the sharply focused orchestral colours of Sawer's tone poem, rendered with maximum conviction by the orchestra that first performed it.' Gramophone
FUNDERS
Produced in association with BBC Radio 3
RECORDING CREDITS
Recording date: 23 February 1995
Recording venue: St Augustine's Church, Kilburn
Engineer: Mike Hatch
Producer: Colin Matthews
Editing & mastering: Marian Freeman
(P) 1995 NMC Recordings Ltd