Palimpsest

This album marks the culmination of a landmark project to re-imagine new works from old for saxophone, choir and organ. Celebrated saxophonist Sam Corkin is joined by Canterbury Cathedral Choir to bring a fresh perspective to some well-loved repertoire, recorded within the iconic surroundings of Canterbury Cathedral. Featuring fifteen specially commissioned works by leading composers including Gabriel Jackson, Errollyn Wallen and Roderick Williams.

Over thirty years after the scandal created by the première of his first orchestral work, Metastaseis, at Donaueschingen in 1955, Xenakis's music still poses to the listener a disconcerting dichotomy: the ingredients of the music appear to consist of a plethora of scientific and higher mathematical expressions, a web of calculations and diagrams, and yet the sonic result is raw and dramatic, intensely passionate and subjective.