Brian Elias: Music For Strings
Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein (cello), Danny Driver (piano), Thomas Kemp
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
All are dedicated performers in compositions of textural and rhy thmic sophistication – but it’s the work for solo viola, But When I Sleep, that packs an emotional punch, sensitively performed...
Brian Elias: Music For Strings
Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein (cello), Danny Driver (piano), Thomas Kemp
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Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
All are dedicated performers in compositions of textural and rhy thmic sophistication – but it’s the work for solo viola, But When I Sleep, that packs an emotional punch, sensitively performed...
About
Signum Classics is proud to release an album of string works by the award-winning composer, Brian Elias. Spanning almost half a century, this survey of Brian Elias’s chamber music for strings arose from a retrospective staged in 2020 by the Music@Malling festival in Kent. His first album on Sig- num, it is released alongside ‘Music for Wind’ and will be launched at Music@ Malling in September 2024. The album artwork is by celebrated artist Anish Kapoor.
Contents and tracklist
- Castalian Quartet
Elias, B:
L'Innominata (for cello and piano)
Work length11:35
This work is only available as an album download.
Elias, B:
Of Elutropia (for solo cello)
Work length10:42
This work is only available as an album download.
- Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman
- Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman
- Ann Beilby
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2024Editor's Choice
November 2024
All are dedicated performers in compositions of textural and rhy thmic sophistication – but it’s the work for solo viola, But When I Sleep, that packs an emotional punch, sensitively performed by Ann Beilby, who makes the most of her instrument’s veiled beauty.
Awards Issue 2024
I am going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the finest album of contemporary chamber music I have encountered this year.
