Debussy & Takemitsu For Strings

Scottish Ensemble,Jonathan Morton

Debussy & Takemitsu For Strings
Format
Audio
Published
10 June 2016
ISBN
0691062051224

Debussy & Takemitsu For Strings

Scottish Ensemble,Jonathan Morton

Fusing French and Japanese influences, SE’s new recording features works by Takemitsu and Debussy, two composers who share an instinctive feeling for instrumental colour and sensuous textures.

SE’s reputation for excellent string arrangements (established with important commissions from the late Rudolph Barshai) continues with Jonathan Morton’s arrangement of Debussy’s String Quartet.

The variety of string techniques and the wide palette of instrumental colours Debussy employed are all enhanced by the larger string ensemble, particularly in the sumptuously beautiful slow movement.

In addition, the attractively lyrical Girl with the Flaxen Hair has been orchestrated for string ensemble and two harps by Colin Matthews.

Takemitsu’s contribution to the string orchestra repertoire includes two contrasting film scores inspired by the French Impressionists.

Finishing the album is Takemitsu’s hauntingly melancholic Nostalghia, with a heartfelt solo violin melody by Jonathan Morton.

SE combines the intimacy and unity of a string quartet with the force and power of an ensemble in this unique and beautiful recording.

Track listing:

Debussy:

String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10

arr. Jonathan Morton

Préludes - Book 1: No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin

arr. Colin Matthews

Jimbo’s Lullaby (from Children’s Corner)

arr. James Manson

Takemitsu:

Three Film Scores for string orchestra: Music of Training and Rest (from José Torres)

Three Film Scores for string orchestra: Funeral Music (from Black Rain)

Nostalghia, for violin & string orchestra

 

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