Music For My Love, Volume Two
When Yodit Tekle was diagnosed with stomach cancer in late 2014, her partner, Martin Anderson, who runs Toccata Classics, asked a few composer friends to write some music for strings to bring her comfort in her illness. As her life slipped away, he had the idea that she might be remembered in music and so he began to commission other pieces for string orchestra in her memory. To his surprise, almost everyone he asked generously agreed, and so the project snowballed: there are now over 100 composers who have written or agreed to write for it – in an undertaking that is probably unique in the history of music. This second volume presents twelve more pieces in an initiative which, in effect, transforms love into something you can hear.
Ukranian Festival Orchestra
Paul Mann, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
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Nicolas BACRI
- Prélude aux chants d’amour
- Amhrán do Yodit
- 176 reasons…
- A June Song
- Alex’s Waltz
- Eritrean Sunset
- Tigrinya Dance
- Single Malt
- The Wings of Memory
- Symphonic Song
- Nefertiti
- She Moved Through The Fair
- Last Tango before Sunrise
John KINSELLA
Richard WHILDS
David MATTHEWS
Wim HAUTEKIET
Gregory ROSE
Eritrean Sunset and Tigrinya Dance
Sean HICKEY
Ronald CORP
Phillip RAMEY
Gerard SCHURMANN
Robin WALKER
José SEREBRIER
*FIRST RECORDINGS
Gramophone :
‘If anything, the standard of invention here is higher than on its wonderful predecessor. […]
Paul Mann again extracts performances of great sensitivity, this time from the Ukrainian Festival Orchestra in Lviv, captured in terrifically clear sound. Another moving release that I have on repeat.’
—Guy Rickards, Gramophone
MusicWeb International :
‘Paul Mann regularly clocks up air miles to record unfamiliar music with orchestras who are not exactly well-known; credit to him for his work on this series. […]
Across the booklet’s 24 pages each of these composers is profiled in substance as are the orchestra, the conductor and recounts with touching candour Martin Anderson’s life with his partner.’
—Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International
BBC Music Magazine :
‘An impressive second collection of works dedicated to the late Yodit Tekle, with David Matthews’s A June Song a highlight among many.’
—BBC Music Magazine