The deeper the blue…
Janet Sung (violin), Simon Callaghan (piano)
Britten Sinfonia, Jac van Steen
Sung shines in the lyrical episodes of Vaughan Williams’s Violin Concerto…Hesketh’s richly colourful and evocative orchestral soundscapes in Inscription-Transformation, composed specifically...
The deeper the blue…
Janet Sung (violin), Simon Callaghan (piano)
Britten Sinfonia, Jac van Steen
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Sung shines in the lyrical episodes of Vaughan Williams’s Violin Concerto…Hesketh’s richly colourful and evocative orchestral soundscapes in Inscription-Transformation, composed specifically...
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SOMM Recordings’ The deeper the blue... offers an intriguing exploration of colour and timbre in music and a revealing investigation of the connections between four very different composers over a near-100-year period. Taking its title from painter Wassily Kandinsky’s assertion that a deepening colour ultimately 'turns into silent stillness and becomes white', the recording illuminates the intimate relationship between student and teacher: Vaughan Williams and Maurice Ravel, Kenneth Hesketh with Henri Dutilleux and the influence on Dutilleux of Ravel.
Contents and tracklist
- Janet Sung
- Britten Sinfonia
- Jac van Steen
- Janet Sung
- Britten Sinfonia
- Jac van Steen
- Janet Sung
- Britten Sinfonia
- Jac van Steen
- Janet Sung, Simon Callaghan
Awards and reviews
February 2020
Sung shines in the lyrical episodes of Vaughan Williams’s Violin Concerto…Hesketh’s richly colourful and evocative orchestral soundscapes in Inscription-Transformation, composed specifically for Sung, recall Oliver Knussen…Sung and the Britten Sinfonia play Ravel’s lush orchestral version of Tzigane with relish…A most fascinating and enjoyable programme.
December 2019
This is an unusual but highly successful programme that has a bit of everything, from Vaughan Williams’ forthright bounce to the modern sophistication of Hesketh, and a wealth of French colour in the rest of this well produced recording.
February 2020
well-planned, thoughtful programme...it is Janet Sung’s deft ability to sound equally at home in the modal neo-Classicisms of Vaughan Williams’s Violin Concerto, the heady gypsy incense of Ravel’s Tzigane and kaleidoscopic invention of Kenneth Hesketh’s Inscription-Transformation that is so compelling here.
