Performances of works from VALE (CD), and new compositions by John Croft, The Warehouse, London

" John Croft’s Seirēnes, whose four movements are heard here together for
the first time, the title refers to the way in which the various lines twist together and entangle to form a single, slower melody, and to the way that the fragile melody is carried on waves of sound, like the song of the sirens on the waves of the sea. In Liza Lim’s Invisibility, the hair of the bow is literally entwined around the wood, creating variable friction against the strings, and yielding a mobile and unpredictable array of sounds with each movement of the bow. In the two works for soprano and low flute, Esaias Järnegard’s PSALM and John Croft’s Deux méditations d’une furie, the strands of the voice and the flute combine, draw apart, and merge, again reflecting the idea of entwining, and of a voice carried by the wind. In Evan Johnson’s émoi it is the flautist’s own voice that we hear extending the gestures of the instrument."