![]() Anna and I have made a disc of songs by the unquestionably brilliant Roger Quilter. We're ever so pleased with it. His music has been a mainstay of singers of English song for years, but people are often a little ashamed to say they like the music. I hope enough time has passed for the "unfashionable" nature of his craft to have faded. We can appreciate a unique voice in song, able to penetrate straight to the heart of a poem with an apparently effortless gift for melody and a mastery of pianistic expressivity. Click on the cover to go to Chandos. There is a short video about it below. Poor Anna with her crutches!
![]() Recording on Orchid Classics of Julian Marshall's astonishing setting (in an English translation) of the poetry of Gertrud Kolmar for Tenor, cello sextet and three-part chorus. This wonderful work is OUT NOW.
Clicking on the image will take you to Orchid's webpage. This is a work in five short movements, where we experience flight from the city into the forest to meet a presence whom we cannot comprehend. We seek and offer refuge. Kolmar was a German Jewish poet writing in the 1930s. MINDSONG is a charity in Gloucestershire that brings Music therapy to people suffering with dementia. It began as a small project, which over the years has grown hugely. Until recently, it has been working in Care Homes for people often with advanced dementia, and is now branching out into working in peoples' homes. To find out more, please visit the website.
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