Winter Passions / Terrible Beauty, Op. 104 / Clarinet Quartet / String Trio / String Trio No. 2 / Winter Passions
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DAVID MATTHEWS
Winter Passions / Terrible Beauty, Op. 104 / Clarinet Quartet / String Trio / String Trio No. 2 / Winter Passions
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) / Stephan Loges (baritone) / The Nash Ensemble / Lionel Friend
[ NMC Records / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 22 September 2011
This item is only available to us via Special Order. We should be able to get it to you in 3 - 6 weeks from when you order it.
"The writing has many of David Matthews's familiar strengths: a fine sensuous imagination, adventurous harmony that makes clear aural sense, an equally clear sense of organic development of ideas...It's hard to imagine this music played, sung, or recorded better." (BBC Music Magazine)
"Loges [is] powerfully eloquent...In Terrible Beauty, Matthews vividly juxtaposes seductress evocations by Homer of Hera (sung by Bickley, with harp accompaniment) and Shakespeare of Cleopatra. Winter Passions is a fine baritone cycle of three of DM Thomas's Pushkin translations." (The Sunday Times)
"Matthews's ability to write music which is not merely "upbeat" but expressively wide-ranging and emotionally exuberant is heard here at its best...[his] bold eloquence takes on an evocative late-Romantic quality...that moves forward with rapt determination. Performance values are of the highest throughout this disc." (Gramophone)
"The writing has many of David Matthews's familiar strengths: a fine sensuous imagination, adventurous harmony that makes clear aural sense, an equally clear sense of organic development of ideas...It's hard to imagine this music played, sung, or recorded better." (BBC Music Magazine)
Tracks:
Terrible Beauty, Op. 104
Clarinet Quartet
String Trio
String Trio No. 2
Winter Passions
