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Candlebird is a song-cycle whose wide range of moods is posited in the contrast between a vocal line of notable restraint and ensemble writing that often threatens to take over the foreground:... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2013 More…

Release Date: 15th Oct 2012
Catalogue No: SINFCD12012
Label: London Sinfonietta
Length: 68 minutes

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Suckling: Candlebird

Work length27:17

Leigh Melrose (baritone)
London Sinfonietta
Nicholas Collon

Finnis: Veneer

Work length5:52

Edmund Finnis (electronics), Paul Silverthorne (viola)

Isambard Khroustaliov: Zoetrope

Work length9:01

London Sinfonietta, members

Hodgkinson: The Glow and Zig-Zag

Work length5:50

Michael Thompson (horn)

Feshareki: Valentine’s Rhapsody

Work length11:22

London Sinfonietta, members

MacLeod, D: Diesis

Work length9:27

Enno Senft (double bass)
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World premiere recordings of music created for and performed by the London Sinfonietta, captured live in concert.

Showcasing the music of the most exciting emerging composers in the UK.

Continuing the London Sinfonietta Label’s commitment to introducing the finest new music to a worldwide audience, this disc features a selection of commissions recorded live at the New Music Shows of 2011.

Acclaimed baritone Leigh Melrose opens the CD with Martin Suckling’s sublime Candlebird, an evocative setting of five texts by the Scottish poet Don Paterson. The remaining tracks were generated through the London Sinfonietta’s innovative Writing the Future scheme, in which composers make music in close collaboration with Principal players of the ensemble – three of whom feature here as soloists, in Edmund Finnis Veneer for viola and reverb, Tim Hodgkinson’s The Glow and Zig-Zag for horn, and Duncan MacLeod’s Diesis for double bass.

Two works for quintet complete the line-up: Shiva Feshareki’s Valentine’s Rhapsody, and Zoetrope, Isambard Khroustaliov’s first purely acoustic score.

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February 2013

Candlebird is a song-cycle whose wide range of moods is posited in the contrast between a vocal line of notable restraint and ensemble writing that often threatens to take over the foreground: until, that is, the final song with its sense of an emotional 'coming together' in music of luminous repose. A fine culmination to an absorbing work, eloquently sung by Leigh Melrose and with Nicholas Collon ensuring clarity in even the most intricate textures.

25th October 2012

Five out of the six pieces included here were products of the Sinfonietta's Writing the Future scheme...but it's the one piece that did not result from that scheme that provides the best reason for hearing this disc. Martin Suckling's Candlebird is a superbly accomplished cycle of settings for baritone (the ever secure Leigh Melrose) of poems by Don Paterson

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