IDAGIO | Maw: Scenes and Arias - Milner: Salutatio Angelica

Featuring

Norman del Mar
Jane Manning
Anne Howells
Norma Procter
David Atherton
Alfreda Hodgson

Felicity Palmer
Robert Tear
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Sinfonietta
London Sinfonietta Chorus
Nicholas Maw
Anthony Milner

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Nicholas Maw's music, while having a Straussian warmth and lushness, also featured a strong intellectual backbone and a rare concern for large-scale musical architecture.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Anthony Milner's musical style was rooted in his deep knowledge of Renaissance and pre-Classical music, and he collaborated with Michael Tippett on performances of early choral music.

Compositional Technique

Milner's cantata Roman Spring, written in 1969, is described as 'atonal' or 'pan-tonal' and avoids strict techniques like ground bass and fugue, instead deriving its form from poetic structures.

Composer Biography

Anthony Milner was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in his forties, which made composition increasingly difficult for him, with his last work being an Oboe Concerto completed in 1994.

Composer Biography

Nicholas Maw, a British composer, initially explored 12-note music and post-Webernite serialism after World War II, but later re-engaged with tonal traditions.

Composer Biography

Anthony Milner, a British composer, studied at the Royal College of Music and taught at several London institutions, including Morley College and Goldsmith's College.

Composition History

Nicholas Maw's monumental orchestral work, Odyssey, occupied him for almost 15 years, consolidating his reputation upon its triumphant premiere in 1987.