Frances-Hoad - Lament
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Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with... —
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Magic Lantern Tales
Nicky Spence (tenor), Sholto Kynoch (piano), Collin Shay, Sinead O'Kelley, Verity Wingate, Anna Menzies, Beth Higham-Edwards, Philip Smith, Anna Huntley, Alisdair Hogath, Mark Stone (baritone), Sophie Daneman (soprano), Alistair Hogarth, Edward Nieland, Natalie Raybould, George Jackson
The album title is taken from the opening cycle on World War One poems by Ian McMillan, in which the composer follows a well-trodden English path, but with her own highly persuasive contemporary... —
