Claire Booth & Christopher Glynn – Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:50 minutes | 947 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orchid Classics
Pairing the music of Schoenberg with the composer’s own paintings, “Expressionist Music” is a new album featuring remarkable interpretations of Schoenberg from soprano Claire Booth with pianist Christopher Glynn. This evocative album explores the expanses of human emotion through Arnold Schoenberg’s captivating songs, each corresponding to Schoenberg’s paintings. The particular works chosen for this recording encompass themes of expectation, flesh, nocturne, hatred, satire, thinking, and tears, providing a comprehensive journey through the complexities of human nature. Schoenberg’s profound connection to painting is reflected in these songs, unveiling shifting colours, raw emotions, and profound sensuality. Soprano Claire Booth has gained a reputation for her explorations of diverse repertoire, with her extensive operatic and concert engagements, including collaborations with major orchestras and festivals, attesting to her versatility as an artist. Booth’s collaborations with director Netia Jones in producing innovative productions underscore her commitment to pushing artistic boundaries. Recorded against the backdrop of the challenges of the global landscape, this album is a testament to the enduring power of music. Despite the tumultuous times, Booth and Glynn’s delivery of Schoenberg’s work resonates with timeless beauty and relevance. “Expressionist Music” invites listeners to explore the complexities of Schoenberg’s compositions, providing an immersive and significant experience into the world of expressionism.
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Claire Booth & Christopher Glynn – Percy Grainger: Folk Songs (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:08 minutes | 903 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Avie Records
Australian-born Percy Grainger was among the most original and free-thinking of twentieth-century composers, a multi-talented musician with outstanding gifts as colourful creator, precocious pianist, world traveller, writer and ethnographer whose fertile mind produced an expansive œuvre of highly inventive works. Star soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn explore Grainger’s fascinating and multifaceted folk song output, a tribute to the composer’s most enduring musical endeavour, i.e. the exploration and dissemination of folk music – in the present case, songs from the British Isles he has collected and written out the discreet but efficient harmonizations of. Grainger’s success resulted among others in multiple versions of his settings, for orchestra, wind band, chamber ensemble and choir. But it’s perhaps his versions for voice and piano that are the most characteristic, bringing out Grainger’s own highly individual style at the keyboard. The album concludes with Grainger’s most celebrated non-vocal piece, English Country Gardens, in which Claire Booth makes a cameo appearance on the piano, joining Christopher Glynn in a rousing duet.
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Claire Booth & Christopher Glynn – Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:21 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Avie Records
Soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn follow their critically acclaimed collaborations Percy Grainger: Folk Music and Edvard Grieg: Lyric Music with Modest Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music, interspersing a selection of the Russian composer’s under-represented songs with solo piano works.
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