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.
Julian Perkins / Carole Cerasi
Jordan Bak / Richard Uttley
Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Duncan Ferguson
Brindley Sherratt, Julius Drake
Bojan Cicic / Steven Devine
Rosalind Ventris
Mark Simpson, Guy Johnston, Benjamin Baker & Daniel Lebhardt, Goldfield Ensemble
Choir of Merton College Oxford, Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas
