JONATHAN HARVEY

Body Mandala, Timepieces, Tranquil Abiding, White as Jasmine, … Towards a Pure Land

 

his disc is a culmination of Jonathan Harvey’s highly successful residency with BBC SSO and includes the works commissioned during that time. Harvey has a truly global reputation, particularly for his work in the field of electroacoustic music (he has been commissioned by IRCAM on eight separate occasions), where he is considered as one of the most skilled and imaginative composers using the electronic medium today. He is also an influential and important teacher of younger generation of composers. The works on this disc explore Harvey’s fascination with Eastern philosophies from the ecstatic Indian text of White as Jasmine to Body Mandala.

 

Anu Komsi, soprano

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov, Stefan Solom

 

NMC NMCD141