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The Path Above the Dunes: Chamber music by Nicola LeFanu
Gemini, Caroline Balding, Sophie Harris, Elsa Bradley, Catriona Scott, Ileana Ruhemann, Aleksander Szram, Joby Burgess (percussion), Clara Barbier Serrano, Ian Mitchell
Gemini’s playing is admirable individually and collectively throughout, abetted by sound of unsparing focus, with detailed notes by the composer and Ian Mitchell. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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This is fascinating and fun...The result is entirely convincing with no sense of a point where Grieg ends and Finnissy begins...The transformation is masterly and utterly compelling, as are... —
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Lumaret has a rich, attractive tone and solid technique...There's no technical messiness to this cello-playing. It just sounds a bit academic. —
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A meeting of Anglo-American artists, this is a fabulously inventive score presented with real flair and performed with the utmost virtuosity. —
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White’s intelligent use of the saxophone’s wide-ranging palette means that the scoring never feels under nourished. Saxophonist Suzy Vanderheiden handles the responsibility well, sensitively... —
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Quietly frenetic textures act as skein-like support for more forthright material in Cowie’s First Quartet, Dungeness Nocturnes (1969), while the Second, Crystal Dances (1977), is dazzlingly... —
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Finnissy: Singular Voices
Music for voice with clarinet and piano
Clare Lesser (soprano), Carl Rosman (clarinet) & David Lesser (piano)
The songs, performed here with considerable grace, are studies in extended line as long, lithe melodies crumple into obsessive detail and undertake obsessive detours – the Beat goes on, music... —
