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Landscapes, Real and Imagined

Chamber works by Judith Bingham

Stephen de Pledge (piano), Yeree Suh (soprano), Thomas Kemp (violin), Adrian Bradbury (cello)

Chamber Domaine

A generous and varied showcase for this most communicative of composers. […] Copious, user-friendly presentation sets the seal on an exemplary issue. Do investigate!

Landscapes, Real and Imagined

Chamber works by Judith Bingham

Stephen de Pledge (piano), Yeree Suh (soprano), Thomas Kemp (violin), Adrian Bradbury (cello)

Chamber Domaine

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A generous and varied showcase for this most communicative of composers. […] Copious, user-friendly presentation sets the seal on an exemplary issue. Do investigate!

About

Landscapes, whether real or imagined have been a recurring theme in the chamber music of Judith Bingham, performed here by the internationally renowned Chamber Domaine and the supremely talented Korean soprano Yeree Suh.

Featuring a wide variety of her chamber music from across her career as a composer, this album, consisting entirely of world premiere recordings, includes one of Bingham’s most performed works – Chapman’s Pool for piano trio – and the extremely virtuosic setting for solo soprano of words by David Lyons, The Cathedral of Trees. Also included is My Father’s Arms, commissioned by Chamber Domaine to mark the composer’s 50th birthday, which is a powerful and emotive response to the impact of war on children.

Contents and tracklist

I. Exotic Forest
Track length6:27
II. The Agave
Track length2:14
III. The Shadow and... Jaguar!
Track length5:12
I. Sombre, vague, con rubato
Track length5:52
II. Fossill Forest, Minuet and Trio
Track length3:05
III. Flying from Lulworth to Corfe Castle
Track length3:19
IV. Chapman's Pool and the Hale-Bopp Comet
Track length5:55
I. Seeking for ghosts
Track length1:19
II. Paper boat building
Track length1:07
III. Bedtime stories
Track length1:17
IV. Lagoon scene, moonlight
Track length1:42
V. Fire balloons, laden with knowledge
Track length1:02
I. Prelude - Amputation
Track length4:11
II. My Father's Arms
Track length5:01
III. Cornerstone - Postlude
Track length5:17

Awards and reviews

A generous and varied showcase for this most communicative of composers. […] Copious, user-friendly presentation sets the seal on an exemplary issue. Do investigate!

1st May 2011

Suh sings the stand-out track on this collection, "The Cathedral of Trees", a sinuous, virtuosic setting of words by David Lyons for solo voice, and also features in "My Father's Arms", Bingham's song cycle drawn from Martin Shaw's poetic, poignant and emotional meditation on the impact of war on children.
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