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Wigmore Hall Premiere

Beth Taylor and Hamish Brown give the English Premiere at Wigmore Hall in April.

Beth Taylor and Hamish Brown gave the English Premiere of The Breakers at Wigmore Hall, which also marked Cameron's debut at this prestigious hall, marking it as a landmark performance in London.


Jon Jacob's from Thoroughly Good writes:


"Cameron Biles-Liddell contrasts evocative images of the sea in his work The Breakers, setting text by two late-Victorian poets — all peril and exposed shoreline in EH Brodie’s The Storm and moonlight skittering across oily-black water in William Sharp’s Twilight. Both poems practically do the composer’s work for him — they’re so vivid and concrete in their imagery that they almost demand a certain kind of setting. The interest then is in what Biles-Liddell does with that invitation: not just whether he responds to it, but how deliberately and distinctively he does so. Biles-Liddell responds to with a clear architecture, invention and control rather than straightforward word-painting, sidestepping the trap the texts set.


In The Storm the score makes full use of the piano and in particular Beth Taylor’s remarkable vocal range, her transitions between upper and lower registers more supple in Biles-Liddell’s work than in the My Lagan Love that opened the concert. William Sharp’s Twilight was a moving evocation. Not a breath, not a sigh was contrasted with decorative motifs that seem to dance on the piano...one consistent quality: clarity that makes compositional choices identifiable. My disappointment is that I’ve not been able to get to his other premieres these past twelve months. There must surely be more to come."

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