This recording moves freely between sacred and secular, composed and improvised, and classical and popular musical traditions.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album's theme of innocence is closely tied to the experience and representation of time, exploring yearnings for the past and warnings for the future.
Composition History
Maurice Ravel, the composer of Trois Chansons, began writing this sole choral work after the outbreak of the First World War, finishing it while awaiting enlistment.
Album & Artwork
The album explores the multifaceted concept of innocence, which changes meaning across different times and places, and contains a notion of history within it.
Compositional Technique
Howard Skempton, a composer who emerged from the experimental Scratch Orchestra in the 1970s, uses an almost provocatively diatonic approach to harmony.
Performer Biography
Echo Vocal Ensemble, described as 'sublime, spirited…completely assured', is known for its flexibility, innovation, and excellence, and will make its Wigmore Hall debut in 2024.
Composer's Artistic Vision
For Ravel, the world of imagination and enchantment, explored in his Trois Chansons, is explicitly linked to youth and childhood.
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