Deux-Elles reviews
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 8 (Roscoe)
Martin Roscoe (piano) (Deux-Elles)
Quart de Nuit
The Ruysdael Quartet (Deux-Elles)
Weber: Complete Keyboard Duets
Julian Perkins, Emma Abbate (piano) (Deux-Elles)
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Op. 31; Sonata in D, WoO 47
Martin Roscoe (Deux-Elles)
Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Opp. 38 & 99; Klavierstücke, Op. 76
Kate Bennett Wadsworth, Yi-heng Yang (Deux-Elles)
McDowall's 'colourful scores' conveyed by the Trio Derazey
Composer Cecilia McDowall (b1951) brings a notably vivid imagination to her colourful scores. Sometimes richly tonal, sometimes more exploratory in harmonic range, her music is always full of invention and this warm, accessible disc conjures enticing scenes of midnight nightingales, ghostly Venetian waters and Kandinsky’s vibrant painting palette.