EMR CD076 | DETAILS
  EMR CD076
   
 

EXPLORING SPIRIT
   
  Rupert Marshall-Luck (vn)
Joseph Spooner (vc.)
   
  EAN 5 060263 500711

EM Records is delighted to present ‘Exploring Spirit’, a disc the central concept of which is the profoundly transformative effect of a questioning, explorative treatment of musical material and the sense of vividness and invigoration that such an approach can bring. The recording is dedicated to the memory of Robert Luck, father of the violinist on the disc, who died the day before the recording sessions began, and whose life personified the questing outlook that ‘Exploring Spirit’ celebrates.

TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO EXTRACTS
     
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016)
1. ‘SONATA FOR VIOLIN ALONE’  
       
Richard Pantcheff (b. 1959)
2. ‘FANTASIA ON YORKSHIRE FOLK TUNES’, op. 102
(World Première recording)		  
       
Richard Pantcheff
3. ‘INTRODUCTION AND ALLEGRO NO. 1’, op. 97 no. 1
(World Première recording)		  
       
Richard Pantcheff
4. ‘INTRODUCTION AND ALLEGRO NO. 2’, op. 97 no. 2
(World Première recording)		  
       
Alan Gibbs (b. 1932)
‘ENIGMA DUET’ FOR VIOLIN AND CELLO (World Première recording)
5. Allegro — Presto  

 

REVIEWS
Beautifully shaped by Benjamin Frith... Beguiling sounds, graced by the tawny richness and unexaggerated line of Richard Jenkinson’s cello playing... The sense of purpose and sureness of line of Ian Venables’ music is pure oxygen.
EMR CD31 | BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Exquisitely rewarding... Ravishing accounts.
EMR CD029 | CHOIR AND ORGAN
This is music of great beauty and integrity and the performances fully do it justice. It would be criminal to let it pass you by.

EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW

The Bridge Quartet approach these pieces with a sympathetic and insightful warmth, and confirm their ambassadorial credentials for British chamber music. A lovely, radiant disc.
EMR CD025 | Gramophone
Duncan Honeybourne’s playing is astonishingly affectionate, yet never saccharine... Honeybourne plays with suave confidence.
EMR CD024 | INTERNATIONAL PIANO
Rupert Marshall-Luck is an ideal interpreter: generously but not effusively lyrical; agile and athletic... The warm, folk-song like slow movement is at times almost painfully beautiful, with a shimmering pastoral central section... Marshall-Luck is, again, indefatigable and keenly picks up on the work’s melancholic strain.  Finely recorded and with comprehensive booklet notes, this is a must for fans of 20th-century English repertoire.
EMR CD023 | THE STRAD