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“Incandescent Incantations” consists entirely of World Première recordings of works for solo violin and for violin and reciter by three of Britain’s finest and most acclaimed contemporary composers. Joseph Phibbs’s effervescent, evocative and colourful Suite for Solo Violin is presented alongside Richard Pantcheff’s “To Autumn” — a celebration for reciter and and violin of poets including Elizabeth Barratt Browning, John Clare, John Keats and Robert Louis Stevenson — and Richard Blackford’s “Dreams and Spells”: an interpretation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”.
The recording features the acclaimed violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck; for the Blackford and the Pantcheff, he is joined by his wife — and the Director of EM Records — Em Marshall-Luck.
| Richard Blackford (b. 1954) “DREAMS AND SPELLS” (World Première recording) |
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| 1. | Part I |
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| 2 | Part II |
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| Joseph Phibbs (b. 1974) SUITE FOR SOLO VIOLIN (World Première recording) |
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| 3. | I. “Elegy (after a traditional Corsican melody)” |
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| 4. | II. “Moto perpetuo.” Presto possibile |
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| 5. | III. “Burlesca” |
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| 6. | IV. Rondo |
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| 7. | V. “Serenata.” Tranquillo |
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| 8. | “Elegy (reprise)” |
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| 9. | VI. “Dansa.” Allegro spirito |
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| Richard Pantcheff (b. 1959) “TO AUTUMN” FOR SOLO VIOLIN AND NARRATOR, op. 103 (World Première recording) |
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| 10. | I. “Patience Taught by Nature.” Lento ma non troppo |
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| 11. | II. “Autumn.” Vivo |
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| 12. | III. “Ode to Autumn.” Languido |
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| 13. | IV. “From a Railway Carriage.” Vivo |
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| 14. | V. “Minstrelsy.” Cantabile |
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| 15. | VI. “The Destruction of Sennacherib.” Con fuoco |
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| 16. | VII. “The Autumn” |
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| 17. | VIII. “A Dead Rose.” Doloroso |
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| 18. | IX. “Perplexed Music” |
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EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW