New. Colin Matthews: Seascapes
Claire Booth (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Nash Ensemble, Jessica Cottis
[Booth and the Nash Ensemble] perform everything here with exemplary brilliance. The music seems ideally suited to Booth's well-known vocal flexibility - a luminous fluidity of tone allied to...
New. Colin Matthews: Seascapes
Claire Booth (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Nash Ensemble, Jessica Cottis
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[Booth and the Nash Ensemble] perform everything here with exemplary brilliance. The music seems ideally suited to Booth's well-known vocal flexibility - a luminous fluidity of tone allied to...
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Colin Matthews is one of the UK’s leading composers, celebrating his 80th birthday this year. Known for his large-scale orchestral works, chamber works and smaller scale ensemble compositions such as the song cycles on this album, Matthews is also a prolific arranger of other composers’ music. He worked with Deryck Cooke on the performing version of Mahler’s 10th Symphony from 1963 until publication in 1975. ‘Seascapes’ brings together four of his song cycles and features Claire Booth soprano, Marcus Farnsworth baritone and the Nash Ensemble.
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July 2026
[Booth and the Nash Ensemble] perform everything here with exemplary brilliance. The music seems ideally suited to Booth's well-known vocal flexibility - a luminous fluidity of tone allied to forensic pitching and sheer virtuosity…A fitting birthday salute.
28th May 2026
What’s striking throughout these four song cycles is the kaleidoscopic sound world he creates with such forensic precision, whether he has seven players to work with or 17. The songs teem with detail; some would almost work without the singer. And yet the vocal line remains the focus.
