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A Constant Obsession

Chamber Domaine

A Constant Obsession

...internationally celebrated
RES 10106 (Resonus Classics)
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1
A Constant Obsession - I. Prologue

A Constant Obsession - I. Prologue
Composer Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Graves, John Keats, Thomas Kemp,
Band

Chamber Domaine

Guest Artist Nicky Spence
00:59 Play $1.70
2
A Constant Obsession - II. Love expected

A Constant Obsession - II. Love expected
Composer Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Graves, John Keats, Thomas Kemp,
Band

Chamber Domaine

Guest Artist Nicky Spence
03:36 Play $1.70
3
A Constant Obsession - III. Love begun

A Constant Obsession - III. Love begun
Composer Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Graves, John Keats, Thomas Kemp,
Band

Chamber Domaine

Guest Artist Nicky Spence
01:47 Play $1.70
4
A Constant Obsession - IV. The Pains of Love

A Constant Obsession - IV. The Pains of Love
Composer Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Graves, John Keats, Thomas Kemp,
Band

Chamber Domaine

Guest Artist Nicky Spence
05:35 Play $3.40
5
A Constant Obsession - V. Love continued

A Constant Obsession - V. Love continued
Composer Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Graves, John Keats, Thomas Kemp,
Band

Chamber Domaine

Guest Artist Nicky Spence
05:39 Play $3.40
6
A Constant Obsession - VI. Love in death

A Constant Obsession - VI. Love in death
Composer Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Graves, John Keats, Thomas Kemp,
Band

Chamber Domaine

Guest Artist Nicky Spence
04:25 Play $1.70
7
Three for Two - I. Wish one

Three for Two - I. Wish one
Composer

Mark Anthony Turnage

Band

Chamber Domaine

Guest Artist Nicky Spence
01:49 Play $1.70
8
Three for Two - II. Wish Two

Three for Two - II. Wish Two
Composer

Mark Anthony Turnage

Band

Chamber Domaine

04:48 Play $1.70
9
Three for Two - III. Wish Three

Three for Two - III. Wish Three
Composer

Mark Anthony Turnage

Band

Chamber Domaine

03:43 Play $1.70
10
Four Chants - Chant 1

Four Chants - Chant 1
Composer

Mark Anthony Turnage

Band

Chamber Domaine

02:42 Play $1.70
11
Four Chants - Chant 2

Four Chants - Chant 2
Composer

Mark Anthony Turnage

Band

Chamber Domaine

01:25 Play $1.70
12
Four Chants - Chant Three (A Bride's Fancy)

Four Chants - Chant Three (A Bride's Fancy)
Composer

Mark Anthony Turnage

Band

Chamber Domaine

04:19 Play $1.70
13
Four Chants - Chant 4

Four Chants - Chant 4
Composer

Mark Anthony Turnage

Band

Chamber Domaine

01:35 Play $1.70
14
A Slow Pavane

A Slow Pavane
Composer

Mark Anthony Turnage

Band

Chamber Domaine

07:34 Play $3.40
15
Graziozo!

Graziozo!
Composer

Mark Anthony Turnage

Conductor Thomas Kemp
Band

Chamber Domaine

09:03 Play $3.40
Total Running Time 59 minutes Purchase all tracks 
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The song cycle A Constant Obsession sets the poetry of five English writers and dwells on the many different aspects of love. Written in 2007 for solo tenor and eight players, the cycle takes inspiration from the songs of Benjamin Britten.

This album is licensed for download from Resonus Classics.

Download includes - cover art, booklet
Nicky Spence

Nicky Spence

Hailed recently in the Daily Telegraph as ‘a voice of real distinction', Nicky Spence is currently an English National Opera Young Artist, having trained at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio.

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'[...] intriguing programming [...] unabashed lushness' The New York Times

'[...] Chamber Domaine is surely a group with which any composer would be ecstatic to work' International Record Review  

Also featured is Three for Two - written in 2010 with heavy jazz influences, and Four Chants for violin and piano from 2008, which was written for the violinist, Viviane Hagner and commissioned by the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The album also includes A Slow Pavane for piano trio written in 2004 for the 50th anniversary of the Beaux Arts Trio; and Grazioso! which is inspired by Led Zeppelin, with the title referring to the first brand of guitar used by Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, and written for Eighth Blackbird. All works recorded in the presence of the composer. Available in PDF format is a full colour booklet, which includes an essay on Turnage's chamber works by the conductor on this album and Music Director of Chamber Domaine, Thomas Kemp.

Nicky Spence tenor
Chamber Domaine
Thomas Kemp conductor & violin
Anna Wolstenholme piccolo, flute & alto flute
David Juritz violin
Gabriella Dall'Ollio harp
Nick Barr viola
Ruth Bolister oboe & cor anglais
Roger Montgomery horn
Adrian Bradbury cello
Alex Neal percussion
Andrew West piano
Neyire Ashworth clarinet & bass clarinet
Richard Harwood cello

Recorded in the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford on 14-15 June 2011 and in St Augustine's Church, Kilburn, London on 20 October 2011
Producer, engineer & editor: Adam Binks
Cover image: Hintergrund organisch © Wilm Ihlenfeld - Fotolia.com
Session photography © Resonus Ltd
Piano by Steinway & Sons (tracks 7-15), maintained by Joseph Taylor Pianos Ltd

Thanks are due to Mark-Anthony Turnage, Sabine Mardo, Philip Gatward, Cathy Nelson and Taya Smith for their assistance.

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