Haunting meditation on climate change from British contemporary classical composer Laurence Crane, performed by Juliet Fraser and Mark Knoop.
‘Natural World’ was commissioned by its singer, Juliet Fraser, with Oxford Lieder Festival and Musica Sacra Maastricht, as Crane’s response to the work of marine biologist Rachel Carson. It won the Small Chamber Ivor Novello Award in 2022, with the jury commenting that "the composer has carefully chosen every note resulting in a beautifully placed and slowly evolving piece that is contemplative without losing momentum.” It’s a memorably beautiful work that shifts from calmly contemplative land to air and sea, using Casio and piano keys, plus voice and field recordings, in an effortless manner bound to charm fans of Robert Ashley's opera's for Lovely Music, Inc. and Pauline Oliveros’ worldly ‘Primordial/Lift.’
“Natural World is in three sections - Field Guide, Chorus and Seascape. It starts playfully, with Juliet Fraser singing encyclopedia-style facts about birds and animals against Mark Knoop's stop-start piano motif. But, following the introduction of field recordings and then electronics, the music gradually - almost imperceptibly - becomes darker until, without ever explicitly addressing climate change, the listener is drawn into an ominous awareness of the fragility of the natural world and the eco-systems which sustain it. Essential music.”
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Haunting meditation on climate change from British contemporary classical composer Laurence Crane, performed by Juliet Fraser and Mark Knoop.
‘Natural World’ was commissioned by its singer, Juliet Fraser, with Oxford Lieder Festival and Musica Sacra Maastricht, as Crane’s response to the work of marine biologist Rachel Carson. It won the Small Chamber Ivor Novello Award in 2022, with the jury commenting that "the composer has carefully chosen every note resulting in a beautifully placed and slowly evolving piece that is contemplative without losing momentum.” It’s a memorably beautiful work that shifts from calmly contemplative land to air and sea, using Casio and piano keys, plus voice and field recordings, in an effortless manner bound to charm fans of Robert Ashley's opera's for Lovely Music, Inc. and Pauline Oliveros’ worldly ‘Primordial/Lift.’
“Natural World is in three sections - Field Guide, Chorus and Seascape. It starts playfully, with Juliet Fraser singing encyclopedia-style facts about birds and animals against Mark Knoop's stop-start piano motif. But, following the introduction of field recordings and then electronics, the music gradually - almost imperceptibly - becomes darker until, without ever explicitly addressing climate change, the listener is drawn into an ominous awareness of the fragility of the natural world and the eco-systems which sustain it. Essential music.”