The Four Quarters

Using Thomas Adès’ The Four Quarters as a framework – and featuring several arrangements by the ensemble – this album explores composers’ depictions of night and day and all the moments in between; from the melodious dawn chorus of Cassandra Miller’s Warblework, via Bartok’s earthly and touching portrayal of An Evening in the Village to Kate Bush’s ethereal And Dream Of Sheep.

Track list

1. The Four Quarters: I. Nightfalls — 6:22
2. Sleep — 3:53
3. Warblework: Hermit Thrush — 4:21
4. Ca’ the Yowes — 2:20
5. The Four Quarters: II. Morning Dew — 3:18
6. Now does the glorious day appear — 3:26
7. Be nice to see you — 7:46
8. Warblework: Veery — 4:53
9. The Four Quarters: III. Days — 3:49
10. Summer Moon — 3:11
11. An Evening in the Village, Sz. 39 BB. 51 No. 5 — 2:59
12. Child Falling Asleep, Op. 15 No. 12 — 2:09
13. easqelä – suspended, spacious, in a dusky half light — 4:32
14. The Four Quarters: IV. The Twenty-fifth Hour — 4:00
15. And Dream Of Sheep — 4:23