Description

Released on 31st January 2025.

Signum Classics present a new digital only album of works by award winning composer Joanna Marsh – A Plastic Theatre and other choral works. A Plastic Theatre takes its name from a theatrical text written by Katie Schaag that Joanna has set for a commission for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Youth Company in 2023: a 20-minute work for the orchestra, mezzo soloist Jennifer Johnston and the RLPO Youth Choir and Children’s Choir.

The live World Premiere performance of this work is the centrepiece of this album which also provides an opportunity to feature some of her recent commissions written for I Fagiolini in 2021. Their four pieces were commissioned for a programme called, Rewilding the Wasteland which thanks to renowned ensemble VOCES8, who hosted an online concert series during the Covid pandemic, was widely viewed globally. VOCES8 also join forces with I Fagiolini in one of these tracks, Now I Lay. The Lyons Mouth bring a fresh and vibrant quality to some of Marsh’s newest works that are receiving their recording premieres on this album including Ivor Novello Composer Award winning work, All Shall Be Well.

“It is a joy to share this collection of my latest works with you, and I hope you find as much pleasure in listening to them as I found in creating them” – Joanna Marsh