Anthony Payne: Phoenix Mass Sellick; Phyllis like an atom claimed by

like an atom claimed by different molecules' Sunday Times

a splendid portrait disc in NMC's stand of debuts' BBC Music Magazine

Barbara Hannigan soprano   Cecily Cardew

Jonathan Powell: Saturnine

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Anthony Payne: Phoenix Mass Sellick; Phyllis like an atom claimed byPhoenix Mass, written in 1965, was originally intended for school choir, but rapidly turned into a much bigger and more demanding work, incorporating English as well as Latin Mass texts (notably in the Gloria) and mixing spoken phrases with sung; it's scored, similarly to Stravinsky's Mass, for chorus and brass ensemble. Two other early works are The World's Winter a chilling Tennyson setting written for soprano Jane Manning and the Nash Ensemble and