Release Date: 28 July 2023
Label: Delphian Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 801918342974
Composer/Series: Stuart Macrae
Description
In 2021, Stuart MacRae heard a recorded performance by mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean of The Lif of this World, his 2008 setting of an anonymous Middle English lyric. Entranced by the way she shaped its phrases and ornamentation, he immediately began to conceive new works for her voice, solo or lightly accompanied, as well as to bring to completion several other works-in-progress.
This extraordinary flurry of activity – eight vocal works completed in less than two years – is captured here, and reveals the extent to which MacRae’s recent music has expanded to embrace folk-like simplicity alongside the modernist techniques of his earlier work. Similar qualities are found in two works for the violin-and-cello duo Sequoia, while MacRae himself appears on harmonium and contributes electronics to two of the vocal solos.
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
Poemes Dun Jour
Le Banquet Céleste; Damien Guillon
Julian Pregardien; Eric Le Sage; Sandrine Piau
Virtuosi Saxoniae; Ludwig Gut
Tamar Halperin; Andreas Scholl
Schumann Quartet; Anna Lucia Richter
Peter Schrier
Michaela Kaune; Burkhard Kehring
