LC Smith - Meadow
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Label: Louth Contemporary Music
Cat No: LCMS20201
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 11th December 2020
Contents
Artists
Mia Cooper (violin)Joachim Roewer (viola)
William Butt (cello)
About
The recordings feature world-renowned composers attuned to the intricacies of silence as much as sound. Performances are by musicians of equal sensitivity and expertise. The first “...out of silence” release is Meadow, by Linda Catlin Smith, who was born in New York but has long been resident in Canada. Perhaps her music required a move away, a quieter environment, a different pace, another view. It is not city music. Rather, in its tuning and in its atmosphere, it suggests natural landscapes.
“A meadow”, the composer has said, “is a simple place, with elements that are there quite naturally; it’s not a spectacular garden, but if you look closely there are many different types of plants and tiny flowers. It is a place of infinite variation.”
This is how the music goes, weaving a meadow, weaving through a meadow, in stray fragments of tune that will be repeated until they dissolve or give way to something else, through chord sequences that move slowly but inexorably. Listeners are drawn into this gentle but alert music by three outstanding Irish string players: Mia Cooper on violin, Joachim Roewer on viola and Bill Butt on cello.
There is no hurry, no need to hurry. To quote Linda Catlin Smith again, “I like to sit with things for a while, to dwell in the material, to have a chance to listen.” This is the kind of experience she provides in Meadow. On the cover of the album is a striking image by the Irish artist Alice Maher.
Future releases will present music by the Irish composer Kevin Volans and the Swiss master of unexpected simplicity Jörg Frey, with whom the Louth Contemporary Music Society has over several years developed a close relationship.
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