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Film Composer Rachel Portman Uses First Solo Album, ‘Ask the River,’ to Speak Up for the Environment, Instrumentally

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Her first release as a pianist comes after 38 years of behind-the-scenes film scoring work. By Jon Burlingame English composer Rachel Portman today releases her first solo album.

Titled “Ask the River,” it’s a collection of original pieces for piano, violin and cello that reflect her feelings about our fragile environment.

That the release happens to come in the middle of a global pandemic is coincidental, but it also couldn’t be more timely. Portman’s music conjures up images of a pastoral English countryside: warm and breezy, cool and contemplative, green fields and babbling brooks. “I had spent a lot of time immersed in nature, and I wanted to try and express that,” she says from her country home 50 miles outside of London, “and

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