Andrew Keeling • Quickening the Dead CD • Hilliard Ensemble
1 Quickening the Dead, for soprano saxophone and two pianos 13:01 (The piece was inspired by C.G. Jung’s ‘Sept Sermones Ad Mortuos’)
2 Unseen Shadows, for violin and piano 8:29 (For the 60th birthday of Anthony Gilbert)
3 In the Clear, for solo flute 8:55 (The piece was inspired by a poem in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Letters Home’)
4 One Flesh, for treble viol and lute 8:07
5 Tjarn, for solo piano 6:33
6 O Ignis Spiritus, for counter-tenor, two tenors and baritone 11:07 (Written for The Hilliard Ensemble. The texts are by Hildegard of Bingen, William Blake & William Wordsworth. The setting of William Blake’s ‘Auguries of Innocence’ is written in memory of Molly and Nick Drake)
7 Off the Beaten Track, for viola and prepared piano 9:06
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