Winter Fragments
Chamber Music by Michael Berkeley
Fleur Barron (mezzo)
Berkeley Ensemble, Dominic Grier
The chamber context provides such an effective vehicle for one of his music’s most distinctive features – the often dichotomous interplay between the individual and the group…The Berkeley Ensemble,...
Winter Fragments
Chamber Music by Michael Berkeley
Fleur Barron (mezzo)
Berkeley Ensemble, Dominic Grier
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The chamber context provides such an effective vehicle for one of his music’s most distinctive features – the often dichotomous interplay between the individual and the group…The Berkeley Ensemble,...
About
Following on from their lauded recording of chamber works by their namesake, Lennox Berkeley, the Berkeley Ensemble – celebrating their 10th anniversary return to Resonus Classics to turn their attention to the music of his son, Michael. In the year of his 70th birthday, the ensemble record a selection of Michael’s chamber works from across the last thirty-five years, including the virtuosic Catch Me if You Can and the Clarinet Quintet. The Ensemble are joined by mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron and conductor Dominic Grier for Winter Fragments, Sonnet for Orpheus, and the poignant Seven.
Contents and tracklist
- Berkeley Ensemble
- Dominic Grier
- Berkeley Ensemble
- Dominic Grier
- Fleur Barron
- Berkeley Ensemble
- Dominic Grier
- Fleur Barron
- Berkeley Ensemble
- Dominic Grier
- Berkeley Ensemble
- Dominic Grier
Awards and reviews
December 2018
The chamber context provides such an effective vehicle for one of his music’s most distinctive features – the often dichotomous interplay between the individual and the group…The Berkeley Ensemble, directed by Dominic Grier, are excellent throughout – entirely at one with the music of their namesake composer.
November 2018
A disc which will give a great deal of pleasure, and one which leaves me longing for more.
7th October 2018
An attractive disc of five chamber pieces...These range from the 1983 Clarinet Quintet, with its medieval-pastoral strain, to an impassioned Rilke sonnet setting for mezzo-soprano and cello: Barron compels here and in the seven Winter Fragments (1996).
18th November 2018
The Berkeley Ensemble, conducted by Dominic Grier and dedicated to music of the 20th and 21st centuries, provides endlessly responsive playing, whether alone or as part of the Winter Fragments song cycle, sung by Fleur Barron, who is also exceptional in the Sonnet for Orpheus.
