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| 1. The Caledonian Road |
| 2. The Day Dawn |
| 3. Introduction. Songs 1-6 - Sally Beamish |
| 4. The Imagined Sound Of Sun And Stone - John Harle |
The disc opens with The Caledonian Road of 1997. The name of this piece refers not just to the north London thoroughfare remembered by Beamish from childhood but to her own pilgrimage northward to Scotland, where she now lives. The music resonates with a sense of ritual, of something inevitable. By contrast, the work that follows, the unabashedly poetic The Day Dawn (written for a summer school organised by Contemporary Music-making for Amateurs in 1997, and revised in 2000) derives from a Shetland fiddle tune, and is all about new beginnings.
And finally there's the saxophone concerto The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone (1999), whose starting point is a Swedish herding call - used as a kind of ritornello - but which is drenched in a plethora of references primeval, religious, mystical and contemporary, music at once hard and soft edged. Fine playing from the soloist, John Harle, in this work and throughout the disc by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under Ola Rudner.
Performance ****
Sound ****
© BBC Music Magazine 2001
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