A Place Between

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In an age of anxiety and conflict, this music looks to higher levels of consciousness to provide assurance. Regardless of whether you share such faith, there is no doubting the beauty of the... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Jul 2009
Catalogue No: LCMS901
Label: Louth Contemporary Music
Length: 64 minutes

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Tavener: Ikon of Joy and Sorrow

Work length2:58

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Callino Quartet

Pärt: Hymn to a Great City for two pianos

Work length3:13

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Michael McHale

Knaifel: O Heavenly King

Work length5:21

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Callino Quartet, Patricia Rozario

Sylvestrov: Ikon

Work length4:25

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Callino Quartet

Sylvestrov: 25.X.1893

Work length6:08

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Michael McHale, Ioana Petcu Colan

Pärt: Da pacem Domine

Work length4:21

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Callino Quartet

Gorecki: Good Night, Op. 63

Work length27:55

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Michael McHale, Vourneen Ryan, Patricia Rozario

I. Lento

Track length5:59

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II. Lento. Tranquillissimo

Track length11:22

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III. Lento. Largo dolcissimo. Cantablaissimo

Track length10:34

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Cage: In a Landscape

Work length10:10

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Michael McHale

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World première recordings of works by John Tavener, Arvo Pärt, Valentin Silvestrov and Alexander Knaifel sit alongside pieces by Henryk Górecki and John Cage on the first recording from a new Irish label operated by noted concert promoters Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS). All of these very popular contemporary composers have in various ways been deeply influenced by profound spiritual, religious or cultural encounters, and the disc celebrates them in a moving, magical programme.

A Place Between intersperses - to wonderful effect - beautiful works for string quartet (Silvestrov's meditative Ikon, Tavener's deeply moving Ikon of Joy/Sorrow, Pärt's reflective Da Pacem Domine) with two solo piano works (Pärt's uplifting Hymn to a Great City, and Cage’s melodic and expressive In a Landscape). Górecki's memorial for Michael Vyner, Good Night and Knaifel’s mystical O Heavenly King both feature the haunting voice of soprano Patricia Rozario. Silvestrov's 25.X.1893 lullaby is a melancholic and lyrical piece for violin and piano.

Besides the renowned soprano Patricia Rozario, the other artists – all Irish – are the Callino Quartet, pianist Michael McHale (winner of the Terence Judd/Hallé Award 2009), violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan, flautist Vourneen Ryan and percussionist Stephen Kelly. Recorded in the acoustically superb historic setting of St. Peter’s Church of Ireland in Drogheda, the mixing, mastering and editing were carried out in the state-of-the-art Rainbow Studios in Oslo.

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September 2009

In an age of anxiety and conflict, this music looks to higher levels of consciousness to provide assurance. Regardless of whether you share such faith, there is no doubting the beauty of the music of the sincerity and conviction of these excellent performances.

Awards Issue 2009

…there are moments of understated beauty, notably in Valentin Silvestrov's Lullaby for violin and piano. Written to commemorate the centenary of Tchaikovsky's death, a series of haunting melodic variations are woven in the violin around a descending chaconne-like chord progression, with the piano progressively reinforcing each melodic statement.

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