Ravel/Britten: Images: Organ Of Ely Cathedral
$35.00
Out of Stock2-4 weeks add to cart
MAURICE RAVEL / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Ravel/Britten: Images: Organ Of Ely Cathedral
Anna Lapwood (organ)
[ Signum / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 19 November 2021
This item is currently out of stock. We expect to be able to supply it to you within 2 - 4 weeks from when you place your order.
Signum proudly presents Lapwood's debut solo organ recording following her critically-acclaimed debut choral recording, All things are quite silent, with The Choirs of Pembroke College, Cambridge. This luxurious programme, including some of Lapwood's world-premiere arrangements, showcases the softer, more subtle side of an instrument more generally regarded for its bombastic nature.
"One of my favourite things about being an organist is the exquisite feeling of practising in a church or cathedral late at night. The door is locked, the lights are often out, and time seems to flow differently. It's at night that one really gains a sense of the history of the building, getting to know the creaking noises and clicks that make it seem as if the space is breathing. Sound seems to travel differently too, piercing the warm cushion of dark silence like a beam of light. On this disc I've tried to capture some of that magic, recording in a chilly Ely Cathedral after hours in January 2021."
Anna Lapwood Anna Lapwood is an organist, conductor, and broadcaster, and holds the position of Director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
"This debut solo album brilliantly played by the rising young organist Anna Lapwood should certainly engage organ aficionados, especially fans of the grand Harrison & Harrison instrument in Ely Cathedral...The real curiosity, however, is Lapwood's own arrangement of Britten's Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes. Much of this works surprisingly well." BBC Music
"as unexpected as it is absorbing...The organ of Ely Cathedral, extensively restored in 1999-2001, lends itself persuasively to the sensuous, often - but not always - pianissimo repertoire Lapwood favours." Guardian
Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Spatial Audio
Tracks:
Le Tombeau de Couperin Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
1 I. Prelude arr. Erwin Wiersinga [3.55]
2 III. Forlane [6.23]
3 IV. Riguadon [3.49]
4 An Occasional Trumpet Voluntary Patrick Gowers (1936-2014) [3.43]
5 Andante from String Quartet in G Minor, L. 85 Claude Debussy (1862-1918) [8.16] arr. Alexandre Guilmant
6 Light in Darkness Kerensa Briggs (b. 1991) [4.33]
7 III. Improvisation from Trois Improvisations Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) [3.20]
8 Images Owain Park (b. 1993) [7.07]
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) arr. Anna Lapwood
9 I. Dawn [3.36]
10 II. Sunday Morning [4.11]
11 III. Moonlight [5.15]
12 IV. Storm [5.06]
13 Vocalise-Étude Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) [4.35] arr. Anna Lapwood
14 Taking Your Leave Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b. 1980) [4.24]
Total timings [68.22]
