BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH: SHADOWTIME
Libretto by Charles Bernstein

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Commissioning credits
Production credits

Nicolas Hodges piano/speaker    www.nicolashodges.com
Mats Scheidegger guitar
Jurjen Hempel conductor

NEUE VOCALSOLISTEN STUTTGART
Walter Benjamin/ Bass   Ekkehard Abele
Innkeeper/ Interrogator/ Soprano  Angelika Luz
Dora Benjamin/ Interrogator/ Soprano Monika Meier-Schmid
Child/ Soprano Anja Paulus
Child/ Soprano Silke Storz
Mezzo-soprano/ Alto Sabine Schilling, Barbara Stein, Christiane Schmeling
Henny Gurland/ Interrogator/ Alto Janet Collins
Hölderlin/ Interrogator/ Tenor Martin Nagy
Interrogator/ Tenor  Bernhard Gärtner, Frank Bossert
Tenor  Stefan Weible   
Gerschom Scholem/ Interrogator/ Bass Andreas Fischer
Young Walter Benjamin/ Interrogator/ Bass  Guillermo Anzorena
Interrogator/ Bass    Matthias Horn
Bass      Tobias Schlierf

NIEUW ENSEMBLE
Flute/ Piccolo/ Bass flute    Harrie Starreveld
E-flat clarinet      Michel Marang
Clarinet/ Bass clarinet    Carlos Gálvez-Taroncher
Double bass clarinet     Erik van Deuren
Oboe/ Cor anglais/ Piccolo oboe   Ernest Rombout
Soprano saxophone     Raaf Hekkema
French horn      Didier Muhleisen
Trumpet/ Soprano trombone    Marc Kaptijn
Trombone/ Bass trumpet    Koen Kaptijn
Piano       John Snijders
Guitar       Helenus de Rijke
Harp       Ernestine Stoop
Percussion      Herman Halewijn
First violin      Daniel Rowland
Second violin      Anna McMichael
Viola       Frank Brakkee
Cello       Jeroen den Herder
Double bass      Rien Wisse

COMMISSIONING CREDITS:
Score and libretto commissioned in 1999 by the City of Munich for the Munich Biennale
Additional commissions for the score from the Carnegie Hall Corporation (scene 3), Flanders Festival and Ian Pace (scene 4), Musée d’Orsay and the Ensemble InterContemporain (scene 6), Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant for Ircam (scene 7)

World première: Prinzregententheater, Munich 25, 27, 28 May 2004
Co-producers of the world première:
Munich Biennale – International Festival of New Music Theatre
Second RuhrTriennale 2005
Festival d’Automne à Paris
Lincoln Center Festival New York
Sadler’s Wells London

PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Shadowtime was presented by English National Opera at the London Coliseum on 9 July 2005 and recorded in collaboration with BBC Radio 3.

For BBC Radio 3
Recording producer     ANDREW KUROWSKI
Recording engineer   SIMON HANCOCK
Outside broadcast engineers  MALCOLM STOKES, GRAHAM EVERETT
Production assistant    ANDREW KING

For NMC Recordings
Recording producer/ mixing & editing DAVID LEFEBER
Executive producer    COLIN MATTHEWS

For Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart    www.neue-vocalsolisten.de
General manager    CHRISTINE FISCHER  
Management company   MUSIK DER JAHRHUNDERTE 

For the Nieuw Ensemble   www.nieuw-ensemble.nl
Artistic director   JOEL BONS
Business manager   KATRIEN SITTERS

For English National Opera    www.eno.org
Contemporary arts producer   SARAH HICKSON
Artistic director & chief executive  SEAN DORAN

Special thanks to Joséphine Markovits and Graham Hayter.

NMC Recordings gratefully acknowledges funding from Stanford University towards the production of this recording. NMC is also grateful to the Holst Foundation for additional funding towards the release of Shadowtime.
Brian Ferneyhough’s music is published by Peters Edition.

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