Lotte Betts-Dean, James Girling, Ligeti Quartet – The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Lotte Betts-Dean, James Girling, Ligeti Quartet – The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:04 minutes | 1018 MB | Genre: Classical
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Conceived during a residency at The Red House, Benjamin Britten’s former home, in 2019, this collection of new compositions and arrangements by Arthur Keegan – developed in close collaboration with the performers – shows the profound influence of Thomas Hardy’s poetry on composers throughout the twentieth century and into our own era. Hardy’s characteristic themes are present throughout: the relentless passing of time; nature and the changing seasons; the effects on both of the modern world, with its machines and timetables.Keegan’s Elegies for Emma, for voice and guitar, seeks to restore the voice of Hardy’s first wife Emma alongside the regret-filled poems Hardy wrote after her death, while String Quartet No 1 ‘Elegies for Tom’ weaves instrumental meditations on Hardy’s poem ‘Afterwards’ together with interludes setting a later poem by Philip Larkin. Recently named Young Artist of the Year at the prestigious RPS Music Awards, mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean is joined by guitarist James Girling and the Ligeti Quartet in performances that linger long in the memory.

Tracklist:

1-01. Lotte Betts-Dean – Elegies for Emma: I. Days to Recollect (Pt. 1) (02:41)
1-02. Lotte Betts-Dean – Elegies for Emma: II. The Walk (02:57)
1-03. Lotte Betts-Dean – Elegies for Emma: III. Rain on a Grave (02:48)
1-04. Lotte Betts-Dean – Elegies for Emma: Interlude: I Look into my Glass (01:56)
1-05. Lotte Betts-Dean – Elegies for Emma: IV. The Voice (03:49)
1-06. Lotte Betts-Dean – Elegies for Emma: V. She to Him (02:39)
1-07. Lotte Betts-Dean – Elegies for Emma: VI. Days to Recollect (Pt. 2) (03:35)
1-08. Lotte Betts-Dean – Three Songs for Voice and Harp: No. 1, Midnight on the Great Western (Arr. for Voice, Guitar, and String Quartet by Arthur Keegan) (02:53)
1-09. Lotte Betts-Dean – Faintheart in a Railway Train (Arr. for Voice and String Quartet by Arthur Keegan) (01:25)
1-10. Lotte Betts-Dean – Winter Words, Op. 52: At the Railway Station, Upway (Arr. for Voice and Guitar by Arthur Keegan) (03:28)
1-11. Lotte Betts-Dean – Weathers (Arr. for Voice and Guitar by Arthur Keegan) (01:51)
1-12. Lotte Betts-Dean – In the Black Winter Morning (Arr. for Voice and Guitar by Arthur Keegan) (02:58)
1-13. Lotte Betts-Dean – Four Hardy Songs: No. 3, If It’s Ever Spring Again (Arr. for Voice and Guitar by Arthur Keegan) (01:21)
1-14. Lotte Betts-Dean – Before and After Summer, Op. 16: No. 7, The Too Short Time (Arr. for Voice and Guitar by Arthur Keegan) (03:16)
1-15. Lotte Betts-Dean – The Echo Elf Answers (06:01)
1-16. Lotte Betts-Dean – A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 6, Shortening Days (Arr. for Voice and String Quartet by Arthur Keegan) (03:09)
1-17. Ligeti Quartet – String Quartet No. 1 “Elegies for Tom”: I. Delicate-filmed, as New-spun Silk (04:16)
1-18. Lotte Betts-Dean – String Quartet No. 1 “Elegies for Tom”: Interlude No. 1 (01:15)
1-19. Ligeti Quartet – String Quartet No. 1 “Elegies for Tom”: II. An Eyelid’s Soundless Blink (02:50)
1-20. Lotte Betts-Dean – String Quartet No. 1 “Elegies for Tom”: Interlude No. 2 (01:12)
1-21. Ligeti Quartet – String Quartet No. 1 “Elegies for Tom”: III. Nocturnal Blackness, Mothy and Warm (03:59)
1-22. Lotte Betts-Dean – String Quartet No. 1 “Elegies for Tom”: Interlude No. 3 (01:09)
1-23. Ligeti Quartet – String Quartet No. 1 “Elegies for Tom”: IV. Full-starred Heavens that Winter Sees (02:05)
1-24. Lotte Betts-Dean – String Quartet No. 1 “Elegies for Tom”: Interlude No. 4 (00:58)
1-25. Lotte Betts-Dean – String Quartet No. 1 “Elegies for Tom”: V. A New Bell’s Boom (02:21)

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