Cooper, Julie
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‘Firedove’ – nice title – is an imaginative bran tub of a programme with some outstanding tracks and performances but I wonder if it doesn’t fall between several stools. —
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Julie Cooper: Oculus
Joby Burgess (percussion), Camilla Pay, Julie Cooper, Joshua Davidson, Grace Davidson (soprano), Eliza Marshall, Rebeca Omordia (piano), Anna Hale, Cara Berridge, Her Ensemble, Oculus Ensemble, Jessica Cottis, Simon Hale, Clio Gould
If the genres are often blurred in Cooper’s music, ‘Oculus’ radiates a clarity of sound and vision that resonates with the album’s central subject matter. —
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Julie Cooper: Continuum
Adjoa Andoh, Julie Cooper, Elena Urioste (violin), Grace Davidson (soprano), Camilla Pay, Justin Pearson, Nicholas McCarthy (piano), Anthony Pike, Oculus Ensemble, Clio Gould, Jessica Cottis
‘Continuum’ may gravitate too closely to the mainstream for some readers’ tastes but one is constantly reminded in Cooper’s expressively honed music of its power to comfort and inspire in difficult... —
