COMPOSERS: Stevenson
LABELS: Musaeus
WORKS: A Child’s Garden of Verses; Nine Haiku; Border Boyhood
PERFORMER: The Artsong Collective
CATALOGUE NO: MZCD 100
First-rate young artists vibrantly recorded in passionately committed accounts of three major song-cycles by the most prolific living song-composer in Britain. RL Stevenson, Hugh MacDiarmid and Japanese Haiku receive graphically intelligent setting, with piano parts as absorbing as the vocal lines are lyrical. Unhesitatingly recommended. Calum MacDonald
Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses; Nine Haiku; Border Boyhood
First-rate young artists vibrantly recorded in passionately committed accounts of three major song-cycles by the most prolific living song-composer in Britain. RL Stevenson, Hugh MacDiarmid and Japanese Haiku receive graphically intelligent setting, with piano parts as absorbing as the vocal lines are lyrical. Unhesitatingly recommended. Calum MacDonald
Our rating
5
Published: January 20, 2012 at 3:11 pm