Ben Foskett: Dinosaur Composer_Butler; Martin A heavy layer of bass

A heavy layer of bass instruments – contrabass clarinet and contrabassoon

‘The best music of all comes with the authoritative control of structure and timbre in Hannah Kendall’s The Spark Catchers’ The Times

is a response to modern life

Originally issued with BBC Music Magazine in 1995

Tatiana Koleva percussion

Ben Foskett: Dinosaur Composer_Butler; Martin A heavy layer of bassThis survey of Ben Foskett's work spans 10 years, from the brooding Five Night Pieces for piano (2002) to Cinq Chansons a Hurle Vent a deceptively simple setting of poems by French writer Laure Salama, written from the point of view of characters in Wuthering Heights, for soprano and saxophone. Between these come the orchestral From Trumpet, built up from a single rhythmic cell; elegaic On from Four, commissioned for Manchester ensemble Psappha for