The recording of 'void' was a co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur and took place at Ultraschall Berlin, a festival for new music, in January 2018.
Recording & Production
NMC Recordings, a charitable company, was established for the recording of contemporary music by the Holst Foundation and receives funding from Arts Council England and The Delius Trust.
Cultural Impact
Rebecca Saunders' compositions have received numerous prestigious international awards, including the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize and four Royal Philharmonic Society Awards.
Album & Artwork
This album was made possible through the Imogen Holst Fund, established by NMC Recordings to support recording projects by historically underrepresented composers.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Rebecca Saunders has a strong interest in the sculptural and spatial properties of sound, evident in her expanding spatial collages like chroma I - XXII and insideout.
Composer Biography
Rebecca Saunders, the Berlin-based British composer featured on this album, is a leading international representative of her generation, having studied with Nigel Osborne and Wolfgang Rihm.
Composition History
The piece 'Skin' features text written by Rebecca Saunders herself, which developed during the compositional process and was partly inspired by collaborations with soprano Juliet Fraser.
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