Name: The Immortal (Extract) by Mark Simpson
Duration: 4 min 17 s
Description: For Baritone, Orchestra, Chorus, and semi-chorus. Commissioned by the Manchester International Festival. First performed July 4th, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 2015. Juanjo Mena conductor, Mark Stone Baritone, Manchester Chamber choir, EXAUDI

I listened to a performance of this composition at the BBC Prom in Royal Albert Hall last week, and I thought it was absolutely amazing! Is there anywhere I can listen to it or purchase the recording?

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Artist: Various Artists
Title: Federation Of Rytm III
Label: Mutual Rytm
Catalogue: MR020
Format: 12” Vinyl + Digital 
Genre: Electronic
Style: #Techno
Release date: February 2nd, 2023

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SHDW’s label, Mutual Rytm hits a notable milestone at the start of 2024 as it turns two years old and hits its 20th release. To mark the occasion, the carefully curated compilation ‘Federation Of Rytm III’ arrives on February 2nd with a 30-track 5 x 12" boxset vinyl release and a further 6 digital bonus tracks.

Mutual Rytm is synonymous with serious, no-frills techno. It is a go-to for the world's most influential DJs and a home to some of the scene's most innovative producers. Over the last two years, it has explored several shades of sound, always with high-quality production and forward-thinking styles. A fine balance has always been struck between new and emerging talents and established names with plenty more to say, and that is the case on this collection which features the legendary likes of Blawan, Gary Beck, Colin Benders, The Advent and Dax J next to ANNĒ, Alarico, JakoJako, Chlär, LDS and many more.

Founder SHDW says, "I've poured my heart into curating a compilation of 36 tracks, a reflection of my deepest musical passions. The lineup is stacked with incredible artists, and it captures the label's essence - a fusion of artists spanning generations, united by a shared spirit and aesthetic, creating a seamless 'mutual rhythm'."

Although all 36 tracks stand alone as high-grade and club-ready dynamite, they also collectively form a versatile listening experience thanks to how they’ve been carefully assembled into a perfectly sequenced journey.

Each one dives into a different nuance within the world of techno and there is a range of moods from dark and driving to more energising and uplifting. The collection not only shows how far Mutual Rytm has come in a short space of time but also that it remains in a constant state of evolution and has a bright future ahead in 2024 and beyond.

SHDW’s vision at Mutual Rytm was always to present a cohesive yet varied musical experience, and Federation Of Rytm III does exactly that.


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Federation Of Rytm III

Dont You Dare Squawk At Me

Premiere: Blawan - Dont You Dare Squawk At Me [MR020]

Quintet for clarinet and string quartet (2024-5) 

Jonathan Leibovitz, clarinet | Quatuor Agate

Commissioned by Ipswich Chamber Music Society for their 100th Anniversary

Recorded live at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, February 2025


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"My Clarinet Quintet is cast in a single continuous movement. After a slow and sombre opening, the music gradually builds to a climax across a complex web of rising tempos, before settling downwards towards its point of departure and falling beyond. About half way through, there is a moment of radical change—all tension is dropped and a wash of memories comes flooding in. As the music flows towards its conclusion, from bar to bar it acquires an almost magnetic attraction towards one particular harmony into which, with utmost tenderness, it ultimately resolves. Very often the music flickers and crackles, rather like an old black-and-white film. 

"As I was composing the piece, I read several novels by the Korean writer Han Kang, who received the Nobel Prize in October. Her tender and extremely pointed use of language (often embodying deeply felt emotion with immense restraint) inspired me to treat each note with equal intensity and care."

Clarinet Quintet (2024-25)

Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in celebration of their 50th Anniversary as part of their 2023/24 Season' Grand Tour of Scotland with principal conductor Maxim Emelyanychev. Premiered at Perth Concert Hall and Theatre on 27th September 2023. Recored live at Glasgow's City Halls on 29th September 2023.

The Origin of Colour takes its inspiration from a short story in Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics series called Without Colours, which tells a surrealist tale of the creation of colour on Earth. In the beginning, the world exists in whites and greys where objects and people are shapeless entities bumping into each other in translucent static hues. Suddenly a meteor rips through the sky illuminating the world for the first time highlighting purple chasms and orange mountains; earthquakes emit blue fluids to form the first oceans; the violet Sun sets for the first time; the first black night reveals the stars; newly formed pink clouds unleash golden lightning; post-storm rainbows appear and now the world is full of blue skies, yellow fish, green trees and red fires. Calvino’s story is, above all, a love story between two characters who find and lose each other in the chaos of the Earth’s formation of colour. The dazzling quality of these new colours leaves one particular character in fear of this chaotic new world, and they decide to hide in a cave where colour did not reach. One final earthquake collapses the entrance to the cave leaving them isolated from their lover and the colourful new world on the other side.

This new showpiece for Chamber Orchestra attempts to capture Calvino’s creation story in a musical journey that maps the creation of colour on Earth from the hollow, translucent landscape described by Calvino to a kaleidoscopically vibrant world which is both beautiful and terrifying in equal measure.

Thumbnail: From 5 panels of artwork inspired by The Origin of Colour by artist Kirsty Matheson

The Origin of Colour for Chamber Orchestra (Live Excerpt with SCO & Maxim Emelyanychev)

Live at Alte Feuerwache Köln in March 2024 //
Premiere of ‘Scaradh anama le corp’ for saxophone quartet and live electronics. Such an honour to write for the wonderful Fukio Quartet. Special thanks to Kulturstiftung NRW for their support in this new commission.

Scaradh anama le corp (Separation of body from soul)

For Baritone, Orchestra, Chorus, and semi-chorus. Commissioned by the Manchester International Festival. First performed July 4th, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 2015. Juanjo Mena conductor, Mark Stone Baritone, Manchester Chamber choir, EXAUDI 

The Immortal (Extract)

Composer/Clarinettist. 
B. Liverpool 1988.

The Immortal (Extract)

Mark Simpson

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