Tracklista:1. Recommended Tools2. Eventual3. Late Night Gospel4. Excursion5. Isfafan6. The Champion7. Margins of Solitude8. 3 Signs9. 2nd Hour Revisited10. Fast Brazil
CD COMPACT AWARD, SPAIN 'Compacto absolutamente recomendable' (CD Compact, Spain)'A wonderful collection. Lusciously sung sensuous music... a remarkable addition to the distinguished series of records from Gothic Voices' (Gramophone)'Somptueux!' (Diapason, France)'A compelling musical experience and a provocative intellectual one' (The Good CD Guide)'Gothic Voices at its most imaginative. The group's choice of repertory is sublime and the freedom of its interpretation is bracing. Recommended' (BBC Music Magazine)
A real event and highlight of Onyx's Autumn schedule - the first collaboration on disc of long-time recital partners and virtuoso soloists in their own right, Russian Viktoria Mullova and French pianist Katia Labeque. Recorded in ideal studio conditions at IRCAM, Paris, December 2005. Fascinating programme spanning 100 years from the rarely played late Schubert Fantasy to Ravel's 1927 Violin Sonata and Stravinsky's reworking of Pulcinella in the Suite Italienne of 1933. Mullova and Labeque have toured this programme many times and will do so again this. "The playing is deeply rewarding in their glittering accounts of the Stravinsky suite - the 1933 transcription of Pulicinella - and the Ravel sonata, Mullova revelling in the jazzy glissandi of the central blues movement. If one has heard more inward accounts of the Schubert, the virtuosity here is never in doubt, and the Clara piece is a charming rarity. Highly recommended." - The Sunday Times (UK)
MAINLY LIVE RECORDINGS. RECOMMENDED ROOTSROCK 1. EMILY, PLEASE 2. OUTLAWS 3. BUTTERCLOUD 4. PEDRO 5. JUDY GARLAND 6. GUN ST. GIRL 7. ANOTHER WOMAN 8. SPIDERMAN 9. ANNIE LU 10. AT THE END OF THE DAY
'This new Dyad set now takes pride of place among currently available period performances of these works' (Gramophone)'A triumph … highly recommended' (Soundscapes, Australia)'Among the finest versions in a long list' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)