Martin Suckling: This Departing Landscape

Martin Suckling: This Departing LandscapeRelease date: 12 February 2021 Born in Glasgow, Martin Suckling has been heralded as 'probably the most important figure in Scotland's music since James MacMillan' (Michael Tumelty, The Herald). He has been championed by many leading orchestras and ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, and the London Contemporary Orchestra. His Debut Disc brings together four large scale works

the raw fear so graphic in Kafka and his cryptic

"It is remarkable that Rebecca Saunders – by any measure one of the UK’s leading and most admired composers – has not yet been recorded by this country’s primary new music label

but without his wackiness and weirdness

This Departing Landscape

opening with the rumbustious Piano Quartet

Hallé Children's Choir

Stephen Chase

which refers to the title of the painting by Paul Klee

aiming to "enable a deaf audience and 'disable' a hearing audience so that they might 'receive' the work equally"

This album was made possible by funding from the Royal Northern College of Music and Hertfordshire County Council

effortlessly take on the technical demands of this frenzied piece

The Ghost in the Machine