Ursa Minor - CHAMBER MUSIC
A collection of my chamber music from the last 25 years
***** The Scotsman (Ken Walton):
"...emotive insight and confident linguistic maturity...from the gestural simplicity of Tol-Pedn to the effervescent wonderment of Ursa Minor."
***** BBC Music Magazine (Michael Beek):
"Stuart MacRae at his most searching...a keen dramatic sense – and a richly imaginative scoring which extends throughout, embracing tonality and microtones, swirling dissonance and static repose."
Gramophone (Guy Rickards):
"intelligently constructed, sonically well-imagined music...MacRae's setting is desolate, and powerfully so."
I'm privileged to share this fantastic recording by Hebrides Ensemble of my chamber music, with music (much of it recorded for the first time) for a variety of instrumental and vocal combinations.
Click on the pic for listening options, and click here to link to much more information about the piece, including Tim Rutherford-Johnson's liner notes, production images by Will Coates-Gibson, and reviews. Supported by Creative Scotland.