Solem Quartet, Ayanna Witter-Johnson - Painted Light (2023) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
01. Devotions (String Quartet No. 3): I
02. Devotions (String Quartet No. 3): II
03. Devotions (String Quartet No. 3): III
04. Devotions (String Quartet No. 3): IV
05. Devotions (String Quartet No. 3): V
06. Devotions (String Quartet No. 3): VI
07. Devotions (String Quartet No. 3): VII
08. Devotions (String Quartet No. 3): VIII
09. Nocturne (Arr. for String Quartet by William Newell)
10. String Quartet: I. Allegro molto moderato
11. String Quartet: II. Lento
12. String Quartet: III. Allegro molto
13. The Blue Windows (String Quartet No. 5)
14. Earth
15. Both Sides Now (Arr. for String Quartet by William Newell)



This inventively curated album from the ever exploratory Solem Quartet presents music that is awash with colour. The refined beauty of Edmund Finnis’s Devotions and stained-glass luminosity of Camden Reeves’s The Blue Windows are complemented by works by Lili Boulanger and Henriëtte Bosmans from the early twentieth century, when the depth and vividness of colour in Impressionist paintings seemed to spill into music.

A sense of awed wonder before the natural world informs Ayanna Witter-Johnson’s Earth, for which the Quartet is joined by the composer as vocalist, while Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now – heard here in an arrangement by the Quartet’s violinist William Newell – provides a delicate lesson in perspective.

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