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Clement Jewitt - The Coming of Light, CD

Clement Jewitt - The Coming of Light, CD

Clement Jewitt - The Coming of Light, CD

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]