BBT FILM & AUDIO
Recording Night Music
Mark Simpson clarinettist/composer
Mark Simpson’s Debut disc for NMC
A film by Graham Johnston
Sitting behind the desk at a recording session is a new role for composer and clarinettist Mark Simpson and one that he relished for the opportunity it gave him to lay bare and fine-tune his chamber works composed between 2006 and 2014. Night Music, his Debut Disc for NMC as a composer, features works previously unrecorded and performed by the musicians and ensembles for whom they were originally written, including oboist Nicholas Daniel, pianist Richard Uttley and the Mercury Quartet. As a composer, Mark’s works are most often enveloped in dark tones and atmospheres of loss, dreams, hauntings, intimacy and passion inspired by poetry and place, while his performing allows him to also communicate on another level.
Night Music | NMC D225 | released May 2016
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