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A Place Between
John TAVENER (b. 1944)
1. Ikon of Joy/Sorrow. (first recording)
Arvo PÄRT (b. 1935)
2. Hymn to a Great City
Alexander KNAIFEL (b. 1943)
3. O Heavenly King (first recording of version for soprano,
string quartet, piano and celesta)
Valentin SILVESTROV (b. 1937)
4. Ikon (first recording)
5. 25.X.1893 … in memoriam P. I. Tchaikovsky No.2 - Lullaby (2004)
Arvo PÄRT
6. Da Pacem Domine (first recording of version for string quartet)
Henryk GÓRECKI (b. 1933)
7. Good Night (In Memoriam Michael Vyner). Op.63 (1990)
John CAGE (1912-1992)
8. In a Landscape
 Patricia Rozario
(soprano; 3, 7); Callino Quartet (1, 3, 4, 6); Michael McHale
(piano; 2, 3, 5, 7, 8); Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin; 5); Vourneen Ryan (flute;
7); Stephen Kelly (percussion; 7).
rec. St Peters Church of Ireland, Drogheda, 28 February-2 March 2009
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Louth Contemporary Music Society have here added to the blooming
renaissance in approachable music of our time. I say ‘our
time’ even though the composers were variously born in
the 1930s and 1940s.
Tavener's Ikon of Joy and Sorrow is in the meditative
minimalist caste of schnittke's Spiegel im Spiegel but
for string quartet. The Callino Quartet give a concentrated version
but their violins do sound - presumably deliberately - rather
skeletal. Pärt's splash-swirling Hymn to a Great City for
solo piano is cleanly laid out and brought to a logical and rounded
close. Knaifel's unhurriedly soliloquising O heavenly king is
for string quartet, soprano, piano and celesta. The singing recalls
the solo line in Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs chimed
around by celesta and piano and by the slow projection of lines
from the quartet. Silvestrov's Ikon for string quartet
proceeds quietly in devout contemplative gait while the same
composer's Tchaikovsky Lullaby for violin and piano has
that same dreamy and faintly melancholy air.
Pärt's Da
Pacem Domine is soused in the atmosphere of medieval mysteries. Goodnight by
Gorecki, whose Symphony I mentioned earlier, wrote the three
movement 27 minute piece in memoriam Michael Vyner. It is the
most complex of the works here and across its three Lentos has
a subdued iterative character. Prayer and meditation are the
order of the day. Cage's name like that of Stockhausen often
sends people into meltdown, freefall or a rush to the shelters.
His 1948 In a Landscape is a remarkably delicate conception.
Its softly chiming piano solo runs to 10:18. The hushed slowness,
toll and eddying carillon of this music is wonderfully restful.
It would nicely balance Maxwell Davies's Farewell to Stromness, another
lovely approachable piece from a composer people at one time
loved to fear.
The notes are perceptive and helpful.
This is an enlightened project and its funders deserve praise
as much as the musical and technical teams: Music Network/Arts
Council Music and the Arts Offices of Drogheda, Louth and Dundalk.
Rob Barnett
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