Phoenix Songs ATCL - Associate Trinity College London Sunlight on the Glacier

Sunlight on the Glacier

* Includes brief introduction by the editor in German only

Note: text is in German

Early Music Series

set in a grandiose style and commemorating the Governor Alfred E Smith State Office Building

Phoenix Songs ATCL - Associate Trinity College London Sunlight on the GlacierThe opening work, Brenton Broadstock's 'Aureole 3' is concerned with the dichotomy that exists between holy and unholy, good and evil, consonance and dissonance. Throughout, a fierce conflict between these opposing elements is fought out with harpsichord and recorder continually exchanging roles. Amanda Baker's title piece 'Phoenix Songs' is an interplay of struggle between two forces: Robert Chamberlain's ethereal piano shimmers and thunderous