Thomas Wilson: a chamber portrait Guitar Paxton presents tension between raw

Paxton presents tension between raw

"Jackson’s arresting Stabat mater is the stand-out on this tenth-anniversary album from the British vocal consort

Three sonatas outlining a progression from the despair of No 17 in D minor

'Alexander’s Feast'

all are imbued with an independent

Thomas Wilson: a chamber portrait Guitar Paxton presents tension between rawSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO An influential figure both personally and musically, Thomas Wilson (19272001) was the leading light in a group of composers whose vision and technical assurance brought an international modernism into 20th century Scottish music. In the chamber works collected here, moments of extraordinary stillness continually release into fast, propulsive music whose compelling energies are matched by the individual and collective