Brett Dean - Chamber Works
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10873
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 28th August 2015
Contents
Works
Epitaphs for string quintetString Quartet no.1 'Eclipse'
String Quartet no.2 'And once I played Ophelia'
Artists
Allison Bell (soprano)Brett Dean (viola)
Doric String Quartet
Works
Epitaphs for string quintetString Quartet no.1 'Eclipse'
String Quartet no.2 'And once I played Ophelia'
Artists
Allison Bell (soprano)Brett Dean (viola)
Doric String Quartet
About
The three works featured here were composed between 2003 and 2013 and are all Premiere Recordings. They highlight the empathetic side of Dean: if Eclipse is an evocation of the refugees saved during the 'Tampa Crisis', the five movements of Epitaphs are individual obituaries for lost friends of Dean's. A viola player with the Berlin Philharmonic for fourteen years, Dean joins the Doric String Quartet in the latter, a string quintet with two violas.
In the Second String Quartet, Dean presents Shakespeare's Ophelia not as a passively suffering victim but as a 'feistier personality', full of passion and agility. This is echoed by the great variety of vocal facets required of the soprano here - Allison Bell who is young, yet already internationally famous and much awarded.
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