Painted Light
Solem Quartet, Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Do not be fooled by the music’s seeming inactivity, for the insubstantiality [of Finnis's Devotions] is a mirage, the inner workings, derived from the ‘Heiliger Dankegesang’ movement of Beethoven’s...
Painted Light
Solem Quartet, Ayanna Witter-Johnson
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Do not be fooled by the music’s seeming inactivity, for the insubstantiality [of Finnis's Devotions] is a mirage, the inner workings, derived from the ‘Heiliger Dankegesang’ movement of Beethoven’s...
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"This inventively curated album from the ever exploratory Solem Quartet presents music that is awash with colour. The refined beauty of Edmund Finnis’s Devotions and stained-glass luminosity of Camden Reeves’s The Blue Windows are complemented by works by Lili Boulanger and Henriëtte Bosmans from the early twentieth century, when the depth and vividness of colour in Impressionist paintings seemed to spill into music. A sense of awed wonder before the natural world informs Ayanna Witter-Johnson’s Earth, for which the Quartet is joined by the composer as vocalist, while Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now – heard here in an arrangement by the Quartet’s violinist William Newell – provides a delicate lesson in perspective."
Contents and tracklist
- Solem Quartet
- Arr. for String Quartet by William Newell
- Solem Quartet
- Solem Quartet
- Solem Quartet
- Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Solem Quartet
- Arr. for String Quartet by William Newell
- Solem Quartet
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Awards and reviews
January 2024
Do not be fooled by the music’s seeming inactivity, for the insubstantiality [of Finnis's Devotions] is a mirage, the inner workings, derived from the ‘Heiliger Dankegesang’ movement of Beethoven’s Op 132, masked by the instrumental textures’ quiet iridescence.
