℗ 2017 NMC Recordings
| Released | February 24, 2017 |
| Duration | 1h 22m 58s |
| Record Label | NMC Recordings |
| Genre | Classical |
Tarik O'Regan: A Celestial Map of the Sky
Hallé Youth Choir, Manchester Grammar School Boys' Choir, Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder, Jamie Phillips
Available in 88.2 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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A Celestial Map of the Sky
Tarik O'Regan; Hallé Youth Choir; Manchester Grammar School Boys' Choir; Hallé Orchestra; Mark Elder |
15:14 | |||
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1.2
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Latent Manifest
Tarik O'Regan; Hallé Orchestra; Jamie Phillips |
7:02 | |||
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1.3
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Raï
Tarik O'Regan; Hallé Orchestra; Jamie Phillips |
11:13 | |||
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1.4
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Chaâbi
Tarik O'Regan; Hallé Orchestra; Jamie Phillips |
18:19 | |||
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1.5
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Fragments from a Heart of Darkness
Tarik O'Regan; Hallé Orchestra; Jamie Phillips |
21:18 | |||
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1.6
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Now Fatal Change
Tarik O'Regan; Ryland Angel; Lara St. John |
9:52 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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"Four Stars ... if you missed Tarik O’Regan’s acclaimed chamber opera Heart of Darkness, here’s a welcome opportunity to hear some of its luminous beauty ... a suite for orchestra that glows with the same jewel-like warmth that pervades the title piece ... bright young voices bring both energetic and ethereal life to the poetry of, among others, Whitman and Hopkins, describing Earth’s relation to the infinite heavens and movingly reminding us to look beyond the boundaries of this weary world."
- The Guardian
On this first album dedicated to Tarik O'Regan's orchestral music, the Hallé is joined by a children's and youth choir to perform the vibrant title work, with its propulsive, syncopated rhythms contrasting darker moments of reflection. The piece was inspired by two woodcuts engraved by German polymath Albrecht Dürer in 1515, amongst the oldest known printed European star charts of the northern and southern celestial hemispheres. A deep-rooted interest in North African traditional music, shaped in part by O'Regan's Algerian heritage, is integrated into two of the orchestral selections heard here, which are influenced by and named after Algerian folk forms: Raï and Chaâbi. Fragments from Heart of Darkness is a compelling orchestral reworking of O'Regan's chamber opera Heart of Darkness, based on the novel by Joseph Conrad. The bonus download-only track Now Fatal Change for countertenor and violin revisits material found in Chaâbi.
88.2 kHz / 24-bit PCM – NMC Recordings Studio Masters
Track 1 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 88.2 kHz / 24-bit Latent Manifest, Raï, Chaâbi and Fragments from Heart of Darkness were recorded at Hallé St Peter’s, Ancoats, Manchester, July 23 and 24, 2015 Recording engineer and producer: David Lefeber A Celestial Map of the Sky was recorded at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, April 16, 2015 Recording engineer and producer: Steve Portnoi
Track 1 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 88.2 kHz / 24-bit Latent Manifest, Raï, Chaâbi and Fragments from Heart of Darkness were recorded at Hallé St Peter’s, Ancoats, Manchester, July 23 and 24, 2015 Recording engineer and producer: David Lefeber A Celestial Map of the Sky was recorded at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, April 16, 2015 Recording engineer and producer: Steve Portnoi
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -3.67 -11.68 to -1.02 | -30.51 -37.70 to -27.52 | -25.37 -33.10 to -21.20 | 17 16 to 18 | |
| 1 | A Celestial Map of the Sky | -1.02 | -27.52 | -21.6 | 17 |
| 2 | Latent Manifest | -1.02 | -28.31 | -21.2 | 17 |
| 3 | Raï | -2.83 | -30.42 | -25.9 | 17 |
| 4 | Chaâbi | -11.68 | -37.70 | -33.1 | 16 |
| 5 | Fragments from a Heart of Darkness | -1.02 | -29.53 | -24.9 | 18 |
| 6 | Now Fatal Change | -4.43 | -29.58 | -25.5 | 16 |