Anna Lapwood – Luna (2023) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Anna Lapwood – Luna (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:27 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

With English charm, exceptional talent and creative openness, the young British musician Anna Lapwood not only inspires the critics, but an audience of millions on social media. On her Sony Classical debut album “Luna” she gives an insight into her extensive musical cosmos. The fifteen tracks of the album highlight their versatility and combine traditional repertoire by Johann Sebastian Bach, Claude Debussy and Philip Glass with contemporary compositions by Max Richter, Ludovico Einaudi and Hans Zimmer. On “Luna” Anna Lapwood can be experienced primarily as an organist, but other facets of her musical life also come into their own when she conducts the Pembroke College Chapel Choir on two tracks.

Anna Lapwood plays organ, violin and harp and is active as a conductor and orchestra leader. Born in 1995 in the county of Oxfordshire, she was the first woman in the history of Magdalen College Oxford to receive an organ scholarship. In 2016, she became the youngest musical director at Cambridge and has been leading the choirs and ensembles of Pembroke College ever since. After work and at nightfall, as an associate Artist of the Royal Albert Hall, she gets special access to the majestic instrument in the Royal Albert Hall. This has led to some spectacular collaborations. The most famous of these is with the electronic musician Bonobo. On TikTok, she reaches more than 550,000 followers with such relaxed and spectacular musical excursions.It has been a long time, perhaps going back to the days of E. Power Biggs, since an organ recital appeared on a major label, backed by real marketing muscle. Yet here is organist Anna Lapwood on Sony Classical, with not only a hair and make-up artist but also a stylist credited. She delivers, in every way, with terrific engineering treatment of a small organ at the Royal Hospital School in London, setting an intimate mood that immediately draws the listener in. Lapwood is a choir director leading young musicians, and she is young herself; one might call this a contemporary organ recital, with scores from recent films and works by a group of contemporary crossover composers such as Ludovico Einaudi and the minimalist Ēriks Ešenvalds, all mixed with Bach and Chopin and Florence Price (who, one learns from Lapwood’s own intelligent notes, worked as a theater organist and wrote five volumes of organ music). The arrangments are mostly Lapwood’s own, with Philip Glass, of all people, represented by a work originally for organ, Mad Rush. She notes that the Glass work makes a perfect fit with the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria, and she might have picked almost any other pair of segues on the album; her sequence of events on the album is just beautifully structured. This album has performed strongly among listeners, and it shows that even a fairly obscure genre of recording will connect with a wide audience if it is artistically approached.
– James Manheim

Tracklist:

1-1. Anna Lapwood – Flying (From “Peter Pan” Soundtrack) (02:38)
1-2. Anna Lapwood – Grain Moon (03:18)
1-3. Anna Lapwood – Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2 (04:24)
1-4. Anna Lapwood – Dreamland (04:57)
1-5. Anna Lapwood – Dawn (From “Pride and Prejudice” Soundtrack) (02:39)
1-6. Anna Lapwood – Stay (From “Interstellar” Soundtrack) (06:47)
1-7. Anna Lapwood – Ave Maria (02:52)
1-8. Anna Lapwood – Mad Rush (07:30)
1-9. Anna Lapwood – In Paradisum (04:46)
1-10. Anna Lapwood – Stars (04:18)
1-11. Anna Lapwood – Star Fantasy (06:12)
1-12. Anna Lapwood – On the Nature of Daylight (06:31)
1-13. Anna Lapwood – An Elf on a Moonbeam (03:47)
1-14. Anna Lapwood – Experience (05:49)
1-15. Anna Lapwood – Clair de Lune, L. 75 (06:52)

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