The score for Liber Scintillarum is exacting, requiring players to navigate complex fractions of the beat, pitch eighth-tones, and execute durations down to the 1024th note.
Recording & Production
La Terre est un Homme and Plötzlichkeit were recorded live by the BBC at the Barbican Hall, London, in 2011, and Missa Brevis was recorded live by the BBC at Orford Church, Suffolk, in 2006.
Composer Biography
Brian Ferneyhough, born in Coventry, England, in 1943, is recognized as one of today's foremost living composers and an influential creative personality in contemporary music.
Composition History
La Terre est un Homme, scored for 88 players, was inspired by a 1942 painting by Roberto Matta and a dream Ferneyhough had of a desert planet.
Composition History
This album covers almost half a century of Ferneyhough's output, from the unaccompanied Missa Brevis (1966-69) to Liber Scintillarum (2011-12).
Composer's Artistic Vision
For Liber Scintillarum, Ferneyhough intended a splintered form to place the music in a perpetual now, with each moment fresh and innocent of the past.
Compositional Technique
Ferneyhough's Liber Scintillarum, whose title comes from a 700 AD 'Book of Sparks', uses a process of excerption from a 20-layer pre-compositional matrix.
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