A radiant body of newly commissioned work for solo and layered cello, with harp and double bass by 6 leading British composers to be released by NMC Recordings on April 25th 2025
This body of work is inspired and tied together conceptually by ideas of light, depth, simplicity, the search for a perfect line, and capturing an otherworldly beauty that these composers represent within their different sound worlds.
Edmund Finnis – Three Solos (solo cello)
Emilie Levienaise Farrouch – Opened (solo cello and loop pedal)
Natalie Klouda – Uhtceare (solo cello)
Emily Hall – You Sail to the Sky (cello & loop pedal)
Nick Martin – Vocalise (cello and loop pedal)
Alex Mills – Zenith (cello & harp)
Edmund Finnis – Figures of Eight (for cello and double bass)
I am grateful to the PRS Open Fund, the Hinrichsen Foundation, and the Vaughan Williams Foundation for supporting this project along with countless individual donors, both towards the commissions and the recording itself.
A meditation on solitude, sorrow, love, death, loneliness and hope using multi tracking and looping, recorded at home during Lockdown 2020, released by Stone Records.
Pièces de viole, Livre 3, Suite No. 6 in G minor: No 87, Minuet - Marin Marais arr. Clare O’Connell
Arie, Op 8: No. 6, Che si può fare - Barbara Strozzi, arr.Clare O’Connell
There's a Rumour Going Round, We Don't Know What It Is, But We All Get In Line - Kit Downes, Aidan O’Rourke
Stù Criato - Enzo Gragnaniello, arr. Clare O’Connell
The Girl Climbed the Stairs to Bed - Kit Downes, Aidan O’Rourke, Clare O’Connell
Canzonetta spirituale sopra la nanna - Tarquinio Merula, arr. Clare O’Connell
Pièces de viole, Livre 4, Suite d’un Goût Etranger: No 87, Le Badinage - Marin Marais, arr. Clare O’Connell
Hymn to Nikkal - Alex Mills
Pièces de viole, Livre 4, Suite No. 6 in E minor: No 55a, Le Biscayenne - Marin Marais, arr. Clare O’Connell
Douglas and Aileen Stood In Front of the Blue Plaque - Kit Downes, Aidan O’Rourke
Augellin - Stefano Landi, arr. Clare O’Connell
Lu Passariellu - Traditional arr. Clare O’Connell
Seachrán Si - Traditional arr. Clare O’Connell
