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DCD34338-CD
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For her debut solo album, violinist Katrina Lee has set out to celebrate and bring to light the voices of three female composers in solo works for her instrument. The Ten Caprices by Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, who was hugely prominent during her own lifetime, bring together dedications to loved ones, reflections on death and illness, and memories of places from the composer’s wide-ranging life.
Elizabeth Maconchy’s music is gaining increasing recognition, and here Lee unveils a set of unpublished Miniatures. Sally Beamish’s The Wise Maid provides light relief through its virtuosic interpretation of an Irish folk tune.
"It’s very unusual to find Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté’s Ten Caprices for solo violin on disc and I’ve never come across a competing disc ... Sally Beamish’s The Wise Maid is a three-minute interlude, a crisp set of variations on an Irish folk tune, which manages, even in this short span, to be arresting in its control of veiled folk insinuation and zesty liveliness ... Katrina Lee is currently Principal Second Violin of the Scottish Ballet Orchestra and this disc is part of her drive to promote women composers’ music in attractive programmes. Lucy Walker’s notes are very helpful; The recording in The Robin Chapel, Edinburgh has been extremely well judged by Paul Baxter. I’ve heard a number of recordings of individual Eckhardt-Gramatté Caprices that are unattractively resinous and spiky but this one sits the violin in the church acoustic to great advantage"
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Release Date: 28 March 2025
Catalogue No: DCD34338
Total playing time: 1:18:24
Recorded on 17-19 July 2024 at The Robin Chapel, Edinburgh
Producer/Engineer: Paul Baxter
24-bit digital editing: Jack Davis
24-bit digital mixing & mastering: Paul Baxter
Cover & instrument imagery © Elly Lucas
Session photography: Will Coates-Gibson / foxbrushfilms.com
Design: Eliot Garcia
Booklet editor: John Fallas
Delphian Records Ltd – Edinburgh – UK
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Sally Beamish:The Wise Maid
Collections: All Releases, Chamber, Contemporary, New Releases
Category: Chamber, Contemporary, Elizabeth Maconchy, Katrina Lee, Sally Beamish, violin
