Richard Causton: Millennium Scenes Composer_Harrison; Jonty GARRY HAVRILLAY Engineers

GARRY HAVRILLAY Engineers

It fuses the cello tradition of Bach to Britten with bluesy ostinatos

Gilbert's entrancing violin concerto

JOHN ORFORD Bassoon

Recording venue: Great Hall

Richard Causton: Millennium Scenes Composer_Harrison; Jonty GARRY HAVRILLAY EngineersMillennium Scenes was written in 1998 99: rather than an empty celebration of the turn of a century, the composer writes that 'I had in mind a series of fleeting images a TV commercial, perhaps, a couple arguing, laughter, a dead animal on the road, religious fervour, a child being hit almost anything, in fact, but all of them real events taking pace around the turn of the millennium.' By contrast with the massive orchestra of Millennium Scenes,