In Motion: Schubert, Hindson, Boccherini, Corrales & Farr | BIS BIS2529

In Motion: Schubert, Hindson, Boccherini, Corrales & Farr

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS2529

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 27th November 2020

Contents

Artists

Amalia Hall (violin)
United Strings of Europe

Conductors

Julian Azkoul
Franck Fontcouberte

Works

Boccherini, Luigi

String Quintets (6), op.30 G319-324
» no.6 in C major, G324 'La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid' (arr. Julian Azkoul)

Corrales, Arturo

Senores, les voy a contar...

Farr, Gareth

Mondo Rondo (arr. Julian Azkoul)

Hindson, Matthew

Maralinga

Schubert, Franz

String Quartet no.12 in C minor, D703 'Quartettsatz' (arr. Julian Azkoul)

Artists

Amalia Hall (violin)
United Strings of Europe

Conductors

Julian Azkoul
Franck Fontcouberte

About

The streets of eighteenth-century Madrid; a contaminated test-bombing site in Australia and a song from El Salvador provide some of the subject matter for this album by the United Strings of Europe (USE). Formed in 2012 by students at London’s Royal Academy of Music, the ensemble brings together outstanding players from across Europe. Artistic director is the Anglo-Lebanese violinist Julian Azkoul, who leads from the violin, curates programmes and arranges music for the ensemble.

For In Motion, USE’s début recording, Azkoul has arranged Boccherini’s celebrated and atmospheric evocation of the Nocturnal Music of the Streets of Madrid, in a version that updates the original’s flirt with popular music. Far removed both geographically and in mood is Maralinga, Australian composer Matthew Hindson’s powerful and haunting work featuring guest soloist Amalia Hall. The programme opens and closes with works for string quartet, composed some 180 years apart in Vienna and New Zealand respectively and heard in bespoke arrangements by Azkoul. Reflecting the ensemble’s distinctive voice and multi-national heritage and the wide-ranging interests and stylistic versatility of its members, In Motion is a roller-coaster ride of a disc.

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