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The Coming of Light, CD
THE COMING OF LIGHT - For strings and voice: Clement Jewitt
ASTARIA STRING QUARTET with WENDY NIEPER (soprano)
String Quartet 1: AND NOT ANOTHER MAN (Song cycle - Marion Griffin)
1) I. All my suffering [5.06]
2) II. He would send me [2.01]
3) III. And not another man [4.35]
String Quartet 2: THAT WHICH WAS
4) I. Larghetto, Moderato, Poco allegro [4.56]
5) II. Scherzo [2.31]
6) III. Lento, non troppo [3.26]
7) IV. Allegro giocoso, Misterioso movimento, Cantabile, Allegro
[8.14]
String Quartet 4: TOUCHING THE DEEP
8) I. Wistfulness - teneramente, affetuoso [5.03]
9) II. Dancing Life´s Tears - sonoro movimento [4.15]
10) III. Melancholia - soave, dolente [4.03]
11) IV. Finale: Praeludium – semplice [1.49]
12) V, Caritas ad infinitum – deciso [5.02]
Three songs from THE NIGHT SEA: aspects of an ordinary life
13) THE LAST INVOCATION (Walt Whitman) [6.58]
14) RUMINATION (Richard Eberhart) [2.13] - see below right
15) THE COMING OF LIGHT (Mark Strand) [3.31]
TOTAL TIME 63.52
[ANWR4] Recorded on 6 & 7 February 2015 at Rock Village Hall, Porchbrook Road, Rock, Bewdley, Worcestershire DY14 9SD
Recording and editing: Paul Arden-Taylor (www.dinmore-records.co.uk)
[The photos show the Astaria String Quartet in practice for the CD under the watchful ear of the composer]