Madeleine Mitchell - Violin Conversations
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Madeleine Mitchell - Violin Conversations
Madeleine Mitchell (violin), with Andrew Ball, Errollyn Wallen, Wendy Hiscocks, Nigel Clayton & others
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 9 June 2023
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Violinist Madeleine Mitchell has inspired new works from a variety of composers, many of whom share connections of various kinds. 'Conversations' sit at the heart of an album in which four pianist composers join Mitchell to perform their works. The music ranges from Alan Rawsthorne's quicksilver 1958 Violin Sonata, heard here in a BBC broadcast to honour Mitchell's two-decade partnership with the late Andrew Ball, to Thea Musgrave's vivid Colloquy. The sequence of atmospheric, communicative pieces from contemporary composers explores natural phenomena, songs of freedom, telephonic frustration and a pas de deux love duet.
Tracks:
1-4 Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971): Violin Sonata (1958) 16:51
5 Joseph Horovitz (1926-2022): Dybbuk Melody (1980) 2:24
6 Errollyn Wallen (b. 1958): Sojourner Truth (2021) 5:25
7 Wendy Hiscocks (b. 1963): Caprice (1990) 3:03
8 Hiscocks: Dry White Fire (2010) 5:27
9 Douglas Knehans (b. 1957): Mist Waves (2019) 7:48
10 Thea Musgrave (b. 1928): Colloquy (1960) 11:35
11 Martin Butler (b. 1960): Barcarolles (2020) 13:33
12 Richard Blackford (b. 1954): Worlds Apart (2020) 3:08
13 Kevin Malone (b. 1958): Your Call is Important to Us (2022) 5:28
14 Howard Blake (b. 1938): The Ice Princess and the Snowman (2018) 4:15
