Debussy & Takemitsu for strings

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[Nostalghia] forms the memorable conclusion to this impressive new disc from the Scottish Ensemble. The more poignant for its restraint, this miniature concerto for violin and strings requires... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 More…

Release Date: 24th Jun 2016
Catalogue No: CKD512
Label: Linn
Length: 55 minutes

Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10

Work length26:22

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Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Morton
Recorded: 1-2 December 2014 and 20-21 April 2015
Recording Venue: Caird Hall, Dundee, United Kingdom

I. Animé et très décidé (Arr. Jonathan Morton)

Track length6:46

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II. Assez vif et bien rythmé (Arr. Jonathan Morton)

Track length4:06

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III. Andantino, doucement expressif (Arr. Jonathan Morton)

Track length7:50

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IV. Très modéré (Arr. Jonathan Morton)

Track length7:40

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Takemitsu: Three Film Scores, Black Rain: II. Funeral Music

Work length4:20

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Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Morton
Recorded: 1-2 December 2014 and 20-21 April 2015
Recording Venue: Caird Hall, Dundee, United Kingdom

Debussy: Preludes, Book 1, L. 117: VIII. The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Arr. Colin Matthews)

Work length4:32

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Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Morton
Recorded: 1-2 December 2014 and 20-21 April 2015
Recording Venue: Caird Hall, Dundee, United Kingdom

Takemitsu: Three Film Scores, José Torres: I. Music of Training and Rest

Work length4:39

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Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Morton
Recorded: 1-2 December 2014 and 20-21 April 2015
Recording Venue: Caird Hall, Dundee, United Kingdom

Debussy: Children's Corner, L. 113: II. Jimbo's Lullaby (Arr. James Manson)

Work length4:04

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Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Morton
Recorded: 1-2 December 2014 and 20-21 April 2015
Recording Venue: Caird Hall, Dundee, United Kingdom

Takemitsu: Nostalghia, for violin & string orchestra

Work length11:23

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Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Morton
Recorded: 1-2 December 2014 and 20-21 April 2015
Recording Venue: Caird Hall, Dundee, United Kingdom

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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.

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August 2016

[Nostalghia] forms the memorable conclusion to this impressive new disc from the Scottish Ensemble. The more poignant for its restraint, this miniature concerto for violin and strings requires just the kind of subtly polished playing that Jonathan Morton and his team provide…Morton’s arrangement of Debussy’s String Quartet…could hardly be better done, and certainly not better played or recorded than is the case here.

26th June 2016

Interleaving Debussy and Takemitsu can’t fail. The music of the Japanese is sentient of the Frenchman’s while going its gently modernistic way...The Girl with the Flaxen Hair comes over with added mystery and just a hint of Mantovani in Colin Matthews’s version.

16th June 2016

The immediate thing I noticed about this recording, and which I kept noticing all the way through, is how broad, expansive, lush and generally huge the Scottish Ensemble sounds...[it] has always made a thing of playing standing up for a chamber-music kind of nimbleness. But the SE house style is also all about muscular attack.

Debussy & Takemitsu for strings

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