Disc Details

Contents

Work Title	Composer
Ardnamurchan Point	Judith Weir	Listen
Arise! Arise! You Slumbering Sleepers	Judith Weir	Listen
The Art of Touching the Keyboard	Judith Weir	Listen
The Bagpiper's String Trio	Judith Weir	Listen
Distance and Enchantment	Judith Weir	Listen
El Rey De Francia	Judith Weir	Listen
I Broke Off a Golden Branch	Judith Weir	Listen
The King of France	Judith Weir	Listen
Music for 247 Strings	Judith Weir	Listen
Piano Concerto	Judith Weir	Listen
Piano Quartet (2000)	Judith Weir	Listen
Piano Trio	Judith Weir	Listen

Reviews

• 'Judith Weir has one of the most distinctive compositional voices in contemporary music: her material tonal, largely folk-inspired, but always refracted through the prism of constantly varied shorter phrases; her diction direct and unfussy, yet somehow still elusive; her textures clear and dry, full of light and air.'
  Anthony Burton, BBC Music Magazine, 01 April 2004
• Weir's music is impeccable, if unconventionally crafted...and every bar resonates with characteristic gestures and timbres.
  Barry Millington, Evening Standard, 06 January 2004
• She possesses that singular gift of a distinctive composer: the ability to make the most mundane of musical material, perhaps a simple scale passage or some bare octaves, seem surprising and strange. That's how her music comes upon its special flavour and its intrinsic elusiveness....Weir's art has deepened and complexified as it has developed, at the same time as her raw materials have become more simple.
  Andrew Clements, The Guardian, 28 November 2003