Quiet Music Ensemble, Jack Adler-McKean – Martin Iddon: Hesperides (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:06 minutes | 731 MB | Genre: Classical
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An album of work by award-winning composer Martin Iddon performed by the Quiet Music Ensemble and tubist Jack Adler-McKean.
Entitled Hesperides, the album showcases a collection of Iddon’s most delicate and captivating compositions and features the work Λαμπάδες (Lampades) for tubist and fixed media, which won the Ivor Novello Award for solo composition in 2021 and performed here by Jack Adler-McKean.
Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland / An Comhairle Ealaíon, the album explores the boundaries of audibility and the emotional depth hidden within the quietest sounds. in’ei and the title track, Hesperides are performed by the Quiet Music Ensemble featuring Seán Mac Erlaine (clarinets), Roddy O’Keeffe (trombone), John Godfrey (founder and artistic director, electric guitar and electronics) Ilse De Ziah (cello), and Dan Bodwell (double bass).
Tracklist:
1-1. Quiet Music Ensemble – in’ei (10:40)
1-2. Jack Adler-McKean – Λαμπάδες (30:00)
1-3. Quiet Music Ensemble – Hesperides (25:25)