Martin Suckling's music on this album is influenced by the unique way time feels at night, which is reflected stylistically and thematically in his chamber works.
Performer Biography
The Aurora Orchestra, featured on this album, is known for pioneering memorized performances, being one of the first orchestras worldwide to perform entire symphonies without sheet music.
Recording & Production
This album features several premiere recordings of works by Martin Suckling, including 'The Tuning', 'Emily's Electrical Absence', and 'Her Lullaby'.
Composition History
The String Quintet 'Emily's Electrical Absence' was commissioned by a group of physicists developing a low-voltage transistor called PETMEM, which can make computer processors up to 100 times faster.
Compositional Technique
Martin Suckling's String Quintet 'Emily's Electrical Absence' uses the same instrumentation as Franz Schubert's String Quintet in C major, D 956: two violins, one viola, and two cellos.
Performer Biography
Marta Fontanals-Simmons, the mezzo-soprano on this recording, was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and was a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne.
Composer Biography
Composer Martin Suckling often writes music at night, not for romanticized artistic reasons, but to balance his creative work with family life.
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