Richard Causton: La terra impareggiabile

Featuring

Sakari Oramo
Marcus Farnsworth
Huw Watkins
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Richard Causton

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Richard Causton's works often engage with political themes and his search for new sounds has led him to build new instruments or seek out new playing techniques.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Richard Causton's works often explore the concept of time, with his first major piece, The Persistence of Memory, taking its title from a Salvador Dalí painting of melting clocks.

Critical Reception

Richard Causton has been described as 'one of the most courageous and uncompromising artists working today'.

Composer Biography

Richard Causton, the composer, is Professor of Composition at the University of Cambridge.

Composition History

The song cycle La terra impareggiabile was composed intermittently between 1996 and 2007, and refined over a further decade, forming the mainstay of Richard Causton's output during that period.

Compositional Technique

Causton's imaginative visions are hard won, with composition feeling like a process of getting to know the piece as he writes it, often involving paring away material towards the end.

Recording & Production

This album was made possible with generous support from grants including the RVW Trust, University of Cambridge, King's College Cambridge, Trinity College Cambridge, and The Stuart and Ellen Lyons Charitable Trust.