House of Wonder: Sally Beamish Celebrates 70 Years

To mark her seventieth birthday, Sally Beamish returns to the instrument that has shaped her musical life: the viola. House of Wonder explores recent works written by Beamish for herself to play, alongside new pieces she has commissioned especially for this recording from her three children – themselves all accomplished musicians – and other close collaborators. Autobiography runs through the programme. Childhood memories surface in Crescent; poetry and jazz inflections shape the intimate cycle Night Songs; and tributes from friends and family expand the viola’s expressive world in unexpected directions. Contributions from Ryan Corbett, Joseph Havlat, Rosalind Ventris, Imogen Whitehead, Stephanie Irvine and the spoken voice of Beamish’s husband Peter Thomson create a circle of musical friendships around Beamish’s playing. Another crucial element is the viola made by Stephanie Irvine in 2014, which inspired her mother’s return to the instrument on which she had first made her career as a performer in the 1980s.

1: April
2: Swing
3: Midnight Blue
4: Etude
5: Canonbury
6: Hide and Seek
7: Gerropaedie
8: Wide Night
9: Lurk
10: Glanz
11: Cradle Song
12: House of Wonder
13: Tread Softly
14: Aquamarine Depths
15: Where You Are
16: Sally's Tune
17: Prelude
18: Canon
19: Blues
20: FirstPeace

Composer: Sally Beamish, Joseph Havlat, Karin Rehnqvist, Laurie Irvine, Chris Stout & Catriona McKay, Stephanie Irvine, Tom Irvine

Number of Discs: 1

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