Tony Osborne - Miserere for Soprano & Double Bass Octet

Miserere is a beautifully atmospheric and powerful work which is in complete contrast to Tony Osborne’s jazzy and rhythmic music for the double bass. The scope is filmic in design, with a wide range of evocative soundscapes and images, often bleak, sometimes animated, making effective use of slow-moving chordal writing across the double bass range, featuring suspensions and moments of tension.

The solo soprano (wordless) is able to we...