Sundays at Noon: David Bremner 'Mixed Circuits'

Sunday December 11th’s concert features the launch of David Bremner’s portrait album Mixed Circuits on the label Farpoint Recordings.

Launch of Mixed Circuits by David Bremner

Performed by:

Andreea Banciu - viola

Paul Roe - clarinet Izumi Kimura – piano

Elizabeth Hilliard – voice

Each work on this double-album is a cycle of several short movements or panels, investigating a single impulse: the exploration of a minimal, drone aesthetic through an atonal harmonic fabric of continuous gradual unfolding.

Conceived in partnership with Farpoint Recordings as an intensive exploration of cyclic form, and recorded and mixed/mastered by Farpoint’s David Stalling, the release features various chamber music combinations of four stellar performers: Andreea Banciu (viola), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Paul Roe (clarinet) and Izumi Kimura (piano). The composition and recording process were supported by funding from the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

This launch programme presents the world premiere of the most recent work on the album, Possible Vignettes, and an excerpt from Bremner’s 2014 song-cycle Logical Fallacies for soprano and viola on texts by Irish poet Billy Mills, a long-standing collaborator of Bremner’s.

Programme

Introduction by Paul Roe

Possible Vignettes (world premiere)composed 2017-2022

Andreea Banciu (viola)

Izumi Kimura (piano)

Paul Roe (clarinet)

Logical Fallacies, movement 5 (composed 2014)

Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano),

Andreea Banciu (viola)

texts by Billy Mills

Commissioned by Limerick City of Culture 2014

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