Special offer. Wonderland
Maureen Lipman, Matthew Trusler, Ashley Wass (piano), Elise Smith
Best for depth, with terrific opportunities for tireless pianist Ashley Was as much as violinist of infinite variety Matthew Trusler, as well as fidelity to Carroll’s chameleonic essence is...
Special offer. Wonderland
Maureen Lipman, Matthew Trusler, Ashley Wass (piano), Elise Smith
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Best for depth, with terrific opportunities for tireless pianist Ashley Was as much as violinist of infinite variety Matthew Trusler, as well as fidelity to Carroll’s chameleonic essence is...
About
The Lenny Trusler Children’s Foundation has enlisted some of the finest musicians and composers to present this new charity album raising funds for the Music Therapy Course at Helen House Children’s Hospice, Oxford, UK
Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland it features a brand new text by Louis de Bernières and a suite of music from renowned composers such as Sally Beamish, Roxanna Panufnik, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Carl Davis, Stephen Hough and Ilya Gringolts, all of whom donated their services to support the project
The Foundation also commissioned a series of short films which correspond to the music of each chapter, to be released online alongside the album
More info at www.wonderland150.com
Contents and tracklist
- Matthew Trusler, Ashley Wass, Elise Smith
- Matthew Trusler, Ashley Wass
- Matthew Trusler, Ashley Wass
- Matthew Trusler, Ashley Wass
- Maureen Lipman, Matthew Trusler, Ashley Wass
- Matthew Trusler, Ashley Wass
- Matthew Trusler, Ashley Wass
- Matthew Trusler, Ashley Wass
Spotlight on this release
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Wonderland, a new collaborative work by 13 contemporary composers
19th Dec 2016
David talks to violinist Matthew Trusler about this new suite based on Lewis Carroll's most famous novel.
Awards and reviews
March 2017
Best for depth, with terrific opportunities for tireless pianist Ashley Was as much as violinist of infinite variety Matthew Trusler, as well as fidelity to Carroll’s chameleonic essence is Gwilym Simcock’s denouement for ‘Who Stole the Tarts?’ But it’s not a competition – all win prizes, and the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
23rd December 2016
Here is a genuinely imaginative charity record…Stephen Hough’s Mad Hatter piece has crazed snatches of Tea for Two colliding with the Brahms lullaby; Richard Dubugnon’s dreamy meditation on the Queen’s Croquet Ground is followed by a ghostly helping of Mock Turtle Soup from violinist-composer Ilya Gringolts
