Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Christopher Glynn, Frances Leviston - Martin Suckling: The Tuning (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. The Tuning: I. The Present
02. The Tuning: II. The River in Spate
03. The Tuning: III. Tears
04. The Tuning: IV. The Tuning
05. The Tuning: V. Two Spells for Sleeping
06. Nocturne
07. Emily’s Electrical Absence String Quintet: I. Emily’s Electrical Absence
08. Emily’s Electrical Absence String Quintet: II. I
09. Emily’s Electrical Absence String Quintet: III. White Box
10. Emily’s Electrical Absence String Quintet: IV. II
11. Emily’s Electrical Absence String Quintet: V. I see thee better
12. Emily’s Electrical Absence String Quintet: VI. III (after Emily Dickinson)
13. Emily’s Electrical Absence String Quintet: VII. In an Alabaster Chamber
14. Emily’s Electrical Absence String Quintet: VIII. IV
15. Emily’s Electrical Absence String Quintet: IX. The Pursuit of Universal Harmony
16. Her Lullaby

The everyday is transfigured in this intimate collection of chamber music and songs by leading young Scottish composer Martin Suckling – settings for mezzo-soprano and piano of five magical, moonlit poems by Michael Donaghy and a String Quintet written in collaboration with the poet Frances Leviston, whose readings of her own texts frame the four movements of a piece which pays dual homage to Schubert and to Emily Dickinson. Nocturne for violin and cello bears witness to Suckling’s night vigils at the composing desk, setting down his pen as the stillness starts to ripple with birdsong, while the cello solo Her Lullaby is a nostalgic reflection on the early years of parenthood that also displays Suckling’s characteristically refined harmonic palette.

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