David Matthews: Winter Passions / S. Bickley, mezzo-soprano / S. Loges, baritone / The Nash Ensemble

ID: NMCD152 (EAN: 5023363015226)  | 1 CD | DDD
Released in: 2010

LABEL:

NMC

Collection:

Vocal Collection

Subcollection:

Voices and Chamber Ensemble

Composers:

MATTHEWS, David

Interprets:

BICKLEY, Susan (mezzo-soprano) | LOGES, Stephan (baritone)

Ensembles:

Nash Ensemble

Conductors:

FRIEND, Lionel

Other info:

This collection of premiere recordings from David Matthews features Terrible Beauty, for mezzo-soprano and seven players, setting both Homer and Shakespeare in a dramatic depiction of Cleopatra; Winter Passions - which sets Pushkin's poems of love and absence - and Marina, a setting of TS Eliot's brooding monologue - both feature baritone Stephan Loges. The disc is completed with the Clarinet Quartet and two String Trios.

"Matthews' ability to write music which is not merely upbeat' but expressively wide-ranging and emotionally exuberant is heard here at its best... Performance values are of the highest throughout this disc." - Gramophone