ABSTRACTIONS
for your GRAMMY® Consideration
*Contemporary Classical Composition (Color Field)
*Orchestral Performance (Color Field)
Abstractions, my new portrait album with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, is OUT NOW on NAXOS and available on all streaming platforms. Recorded by Rick Jacobsohn, the album features four of my orchestral works:
Color Field
Abstractions
Restless Oceans
Within Her Arms
It has been an honor to record this music with these extraordinary musicians and we are proud to share this album, which represents over a decade of friendship and collaboration, with you.
Color Field was inspired by Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow (1961) – a powerful example of the artist’s Color Field paintings, featuring red and yellow framing a massive swash of vibrant orange that seems to vibrate off the canvas.
“It makes a satisfying triptych, with the central Red movement’s incessant, pounding percussion and vaguely martial brass framed by the rocking string harmonics of the opening Yellow and the consolatory quiet of the Orange finale.” - The Guardian
“ Its meticulously blended pastel chords rendered with impressive care.” - The Boston Globe
“It’s full of bold ideas. Yellow opens with a slow, sustained haze of strings and the tinnitus-tinge of harmonics — in other words, very much the musical equivalent of Rothko’s painting Orange, Red, Yellow, which inspired the piece.” - The Times
"Marin Alsop’s fine recording offers a chronology of Anna Clyne’s orchestral writing...In each piece here Clyne’s command of her material seems ever more assured and focused." - The Guardian (4 stars)
"Foremost is Clyne’s acute sensitivity to colour...a skilful synthesis of stylistic influences" - The Scotsman (5 stars)
"imaginative genre-bending" - The Times (4 stars)
"Unhesitatingly recommended; this is vital, alive music of the first order" - Classical Explorer
"Overall, this remarkable album showcases the extraordinary gifts found in the creative pairing of Alsop and Clyne, a conductor and composer of immeasurable talent and emotional range and with a near-spiritual connection." - Strings Magazine
"This engaging portrait album highlights a defining impulse in Anna Clyne’s music: to create vivid soundscapes through a symbiotic dialogue with visual art – one in which textures, forms and atmospheres are translated across disciplines." - Gramophone Magazine
“a radical melodist with a painter's eye”
— NPR