Orpheus Down

Orpheus Down By Ian Wilson Digital Album with pdf booklet featuring liner notes by Ian Wilson Streaming + Download "a composer of imaginative resource and a sure formal sense… has the gift of making even the barest ideas interesting" Gramophone Magazine Composer Ian Wilson has long been fascinated by the story of Orpheus’ journey to the Underworld to bring his lover Eurydice back from the dead. When bass clarinettist Gareth Davis and double-bassist Dario Calderone suggested to Wilson that he compose a large-scale duo for their low instruments he immediately thought of using the myth, with its accompanying themes of deep and dark, as inspiration.