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Sally Beamish (Jim Four)
Scottish-based composer Sally Beamish's early work was focused on the viola (which she plays), but eventually expanded to other genres, including chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music. Tonight we sample her atmospheric saxophone concerto, "The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone."
The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone
Writing in Glasgow's broadsheet The Herald, Michael Tumelty described Beamish's concerto as "louping with cultural influences — from Nordic horn calls and Christian chants to bluesy solos and a global feast of rhythms from jazz to dance to Latin Americas or Spain, all welded into a glorious carnival of colour ...
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