Wydawnictwo: Delphian
Nr katalogowy: DCD 34297
Nośnik: 1 CD
Data wydania: sierpień 2023
EAN: 801918342974
Nr katalogowy: DCD 34297
Nośnik: 1 CD
Data wydania: sierpień 2023
EAN: 801918342974
MacRae: Earth, thy cold is keen
Delphian - DCD 34297
Kompozytor
Stuart MacRae (1855-1927)
Stuart MacRae (1855-1927)
Wykonawcy
Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo soprano
Sequoia Duo
Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo soprano
Sequoia Duo
The Captive
elided compressed
Chaidh mo Dhonnachadh ’na bheinn
Haroldswick
Stond wel, Moder, under rode
wodwo
Earth, thy cold is keen
the ebb
Earth ever green the way
O Earth, lie heavily
The Lif of this World
elided compressed
Chaidh mo Dhonnachadh ’na bheinn
Haroldswick
Stond wel, Moder, under rode
wodwo
Earth, thy cold is keen
the ebb
Earth ever green the way
O Earth, lie heavily
The Lif of this World
In 2021, Stuart MacRae heard a recorded performance by mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean of The Lif of this World, his 2008 setting of an anonymous Middle English lyric. Entranced by the way she shaped its phrases and ornamentation, he immediately began to conceive new works for her voice, solo or lightly accompanied, as well as to bring to completion several other works-in-progress. This extraordinary flurry of activity – eight vocal works completed in less than two years – is captured here, and reveals the extent to which MacRae’s recent music has expanded to embrace folk-like simplicity alongside the modernist techniques of his earlier work. Similar qualities are found in two works for the violin-and-cello duo Sequoia, while MacRae himself appears on harmonium and contributes electronics to two of the vocal solos.