Opera (New Works for Violin and Piano) Format:FLAC16 presence/absence melds a disparate quintet

presence/absence melds a disparate quintet into a slowly changing continuum – what makes them anything but forbidding is the energy and exuberance that powers so much of Hayden's invention

David Blake

London on 4–6 June 2009

Rusne Mataityte violin

Sir David Wilcocks conductor

Opera (New Works for Violin and Piano) Format:FLAC16 presence/absence melds a disparate quintetTalented young duo Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) feature on a disc of new works written especially for them by leading young composers Joe Cutler, Bryn Harrison, Jonathan Powell and Joseph Phibbs. The title work, Morgan Hayes Opera, is inspired by Italian director Dario Argento's film of a jinxed production of Verdis Macbeth; the disc is completed with Richard Caustons poetic, British Composer Award winning Seven States of Rain.