Release Date: 27 October 2023
Label: Delphian Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 801918343087
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: PAINTED LIGHT
Description
This inventively curated album from the ever exploratory Solem Quartet presents music that is awash with colour. The refined beauty of Edmund Finnis's Devotions and stained-glass luminosity of Camden Reeves's The Blue Windows are complemented by works by Lili Boulanger and Henriette Bosmans from the early twentieth century, when the depth and vividness of colour in Impressionist paintings seemed to spill into music.
A sense of awed wonder before the natural world informs Ayanna
Witter-Johnson's Earth, for which the Quartet is joined by the composer as vocalist, while Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now - heard here in an arrangement by the Quartet's violinist William Newell - provides a delicate lesson in perspective.
The Hermes Experiment / Red Note Ensemble
The Girl Choristers and Lower Voices of Merton College, Oxford / Benjamin Nicholas
Maire Carroll
Jonathan Leibovitz, Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, Joseph Havlat
Heloise Werner, Max Baillie, Julian Azkoul, Ruth Gibson, Colin Alexander, Marianne Schofield, Kit D
Choir of Holy Sepulchre, The National Musician's Church, Toby Ward
Harriet Burns / Ian Tindale (piano)
The Choir of Merton College, Oxford / Benjamin Nicholas
