Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein, Danny Driver, Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman, Ann Beilby – Brian Elias: Music for Strings (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:08:52 minutes | 2,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
Signum Classics is proud to release an album of string works by the award-winning composer, Brian Elias. Spanning almost half a century, this survey of Brian Elias’s chamber music for strings arose from a retrospective staged in 2020 by the Music@Malling festival in Kent. His first album on Sig- num, it is released alongside ‘Music for Wind’ and will be launched at Music@ Malling in September 2024. The album artwork is by celebrated artist Anish Kapoor.
Tracklist:
1. Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein, Danny Driver, Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman, Ann Beilby – Elias: String Quartet: I (06:29)
2. Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein, Danny Driver, Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman, Ann Beilby – Elias: String Quartet: II (06:03)
3. Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein, Danny Driver, Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman, Ann Beilby – Elias: String Quartet: III (02:38)
4. Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein, Danny Driver, Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman, Ann Beilby – Elias: String Quartet: IV (04:06)
5. Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein, Danny Driver, Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman, Ann Beilby – Elias: L’Innominata (for cello and piano) (11:35)
6. Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein, Danny Driver, Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman, Ann Beilby – Elias: Of Elutropia (for solo cello) (10:42)
7. Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein, Danny Driver, Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman, Ann Beilby – Elias: Duo (for violin and piano) (06:27)
8. Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein, Danny Driver, Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman, Ann Beilby – Elias: Three Scherzi (for violin and piano): I (04:05)
9. Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein, Danny Driver, Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman, Ann Beilby – Elias: Three Scherzi (for violin and piano): II (09:28)
10. Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein, Danny Driver, Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman, Ann Beilby – Elias: Three Scherzi (for violin and piano): III (03:06)
11. Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein, Danny Driver, Thomas Kemp, Sophia Rahman, Ann Beilby – Elias: But when I sleep (for solo viola) (04:08)