Tim Mirfin Bass-Baritone Bbc S - Brian Elias: The House That

The bold and dazzlingly inventive The House That Jack Built � inspired by the rumbustiousness, games and jeers of the playground � is coupled with the elaborate, intense Doubles � a large orchestral work commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra; the recording is completed with A Talisman, for bass-baritone and small orchestra, based upon Hebrew text inscribed on a silver 19th century amulet intended to protect against the Evil Eye and was given to Elias's mother in 1969 by her uncle, whose family emigrated from Kurdistan to Bombay in the middle of the 19th century.