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'Chamber Domaine’s crisp and tightly-focused playing fully realizes the ascetic dignity of the music. (Performance: 5 Stars; Sound: 5 stars)'
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'It's a fascinating, beautifully chosen programme...Across the board, Chamber Domaine's performances are precise of attack and brilliant of tone, with a soulfulness that cuts to the heart of even the steelier-sounding works.'
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Artists
Chamber Domaine, chamber ensemble
Thomas Kemp, conductor and violin
Stephen de Pledge, piano
Ronan Collett, baritone
Evelina Puzaite, piano
Anna Wolstenholme, flute
Description
A new recording by leading British chamber ensemble Chamber Domaine celebrates the 75th birthday of one of the world’s most popular living composers, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.
Born in Polish Silesia, Górecki’s worldwide fame is largely due to the commercial success of his best known work, the 3rd Symphony, A Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. A recording in 1992 by Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta sold in excess of a million copies worldwide, making it one of the most successful classical music recordings of all time and catapulting its veteran composer into the media spotlight.
There is also a wealth of beautiful music by Górecki that has rarely been heard, and Chamber Domaine’s approach on this recording, which contains no less than five world premières, is to present an overview of his varied output, from intimate pieces composed during his studies in the 1950s to large-scale ensemble works published after his commercial breakthrough in the 1990s. Of the latter, the atmospheric and haunting Kleines Requiem für eine Polka op.66 is a highlight. Among the soloists featured on the recording are pianists Stephen de Pledge and Evelina Puzaite, baritone Ronan Collett and conductor/violinist Thomas Kemp, director of Chamber Domaine.
Recording such a variety of works written for diverse combinations of instruments and voices was a challenge, says Kemp, but one that had an invigorating effect on everyone involved.
“The sheer range of repertoire on this disc meant that we had to engage 17 soloists to perform in different ensembles, including strings, brass, percussion, two pianists, a baritone singer and even a mandolin player. This presented quite a challenge, not only of scheduling the sessions, but also for the production team, who had a huge dynamic and stylistic range to deal with. The sessions were a terrific artistic experience for everyone involved – some of the music is just stunning.”
Chamber Domaine is at the cutting edge of music making in the 21st Century. Its excellence and dynamism have received widespread acclaim in the United Kingdom and abroad: The ensemble was described on BBC Radio 3 as “the most innovative ensemble in Britain today.”
Released 19 January 2009. Booklet Notes
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