SACRED PHYSIC - JULIA USHER

ID: MSVCD92066 (EAN: 5060054460040)  | 1 CD | DDD
Released in: 2003

LABEL:

METIER

Collection:

Contemporary music

Subcollection:

New Music

Other info:

"Sacred Physic" is a dramatic madrigal after Shakespeare, telling the story of King Pericles and Marina. Together with the other works on this album it demonstrates Julia Usher's individual and highly skilled writing.

tracks:Sacred PhysicLesley-Anne Rogers (soprano), John Turner (recorders), Nikki Bloomfield (oboe/cor anglais), Jonathan Price (cello), Janet Simpson (harpsichord)A Reed in the WindNikki Bloomfield (oboe/cor anglais)Before Light EndsPeter Lawson (piano)Le Isole della LagunaJohn Turner (recorders), Peter Lawson (piano) What is the Price of Experience?Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano), Peter Lawson (piano) Invocation: "Poor Naked Wretches"Nikki Bloomfield (alto), John Turner (recorder), Jonathan Price (cello), Peter Lawson (piano), Julia Usher (rainstick)

“Here is a CD which exemplifies Metier's unique flair for presenting contemporary British music to best advantage. The vocal texts are of the highest quality. This is an excellent, highly desirable portrait CD of an interesting composer, who has preserved an ever open, enquiring attitude to music and its performance.” - Peter Grahame Woolf (Musical Pointers)

“Metier is to be congratulated on producing the first commercial CD of Usher's music. On the strength of the disc she certainly deserves to be better known and I hope it does well. {The vocal works] show the sensitivity Julia Usher has for the English language and what talent she has for the dramatic situation… showing genuine flexibility with a voice more her own.” - John Leeman (MusicWeb)

“The performances throughout are excellent, as is Metier's sound, clear and crystal like the Mediterranean.” - Tempo