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A Place Between Reviews and Additional Information

Almost all are receiving premiere recordings or premieres in these versions. In an age of anxiety and conflict, this music looks to higher levels of consciousness to provide reassurance. Regardless of whether you share such faith, there is no doubting the beauty of the music or the sincerity and conviction of these excellent performances.Barry Witherden BBC Music Magazine Review September 2009 Performance **** Recording ****

If you’re someone for whom contemporary music is a dissonant turn-off, then this could be the disc that converts you. The varied programme of short, often minimalist chamber music includes premiere recordings by Knaifel, Tavener, Pärt and Silvestrov, all inspired in some way by religious or cultural encounters. Inevitably then, the music is down-tempo, but it’s comtemplative rather than syrupy. It’s hard to single out favourites. Classic FM Magazine

Hats off the louth cms for producing such a beautiful thing. An excellent primer for anybody looking for an entrance to contemporary music. John Kelly, JK Ensemble RTÉ Lyric fm.

If I were CEO of a major corporate record label I would send a copy of A Place Between to every member of my classical division. And I would demand an explanation as to why an impecunious independent label can produce something this important, while my own staff continue schmoozing teenage opera stars at industry award events.” From An Overgrown Path

Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) celebrates some of the most world’s most popular contemporary composers in its first-ever CD. The new disc is titled A Place Between, and features world première recordings of works by John Tavener, Arvo Pärt, Valentin Silvestrov, Alexander Knaifel as well as pieces by Henryk Górecki and John Cage. All of these composers have, in various ways, been deeply influenced by profound spiritual, religious or cultural encounters. The CD, which is released on the Society’s Louth Contemporary Music Label on 1 May 2009, comes in a beautiful limited edition release.

The new release features a number of world renowned performers including the soprano Patricia Rozario, the Callino Quartet, pianist Michael McHale, violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan, flautist Vourneen Ryan and percussionist Stephen Kelly. The recordings were made in the acoustically superb historic setting of St. Peter’s Church of Ireland in Drogheda,  and the mixing, mastering and editing were carried out in the state-of-the-art Rainbow Studios in Oslo. A Place Between is available for purchase both as a CD and online at the iTunes Store and CD Baby from 1 May 2009.

The CD intersperses, to wonderful effect, beautiful works for string quartet (Silvestrov’s meditative “Ikon”, Tavener’s deeply moving “Ikon of Joy/Sorrow,” Pärt’s reflective “Da Pacem Domine”) with two solo piano works (Pärt’s uplifting “Hymn to a Great City,” Cage’s melodic and expressive “In a Landscape”). Górecki’s memorial for Michael Vyner “Good Night” and Knaifel’s mystical  “O Heavenly King” both feature the haunting voice of soprano Patricia Rozario. Silvestrov’s 25.X.1893 lullaby is a melancholic and lyrical piece for violin and piano.

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Track Listing:
John Tavener (b. 1944) I) Ikon of Joy/Sorrow. (First recording)
Callino Quartet
II) Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) Hymn to a Great City
Michael McHale
III) Alexander Knaifel (b. 1943) O Heavenly King (First recording of version for soprano, string quartet, piano and celeste)
Patricia Rozario, Callino Quartet and Michael McHale
IV) Valentin Silvestrov (b. 1937) Ikon (first recording)
Callino Quartet
V) Valentin Silvestrov (b. 1937)
25.X.1893 … in memoriam P. I. Tch(2004), a memorial to Tchaikovsky.No.2 Lullaby
Michael McHale and Ioana Petcu-Colan
VI) Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) Da Pacem Domine (first recording of version for string quartet)
Callino Quartet
VII-IX) Henryk Górecki (b. 1933)
Good Night ( In Memoriam Michael Vyner). Op.63 (1990) I Lento (Adagio)- Tranquillo
Good Night ( In Memoriam Michael Vyner). Op.63 (1990)  II. Lento tranquillissimo
Good Night ( In Memoriam Michael Vyner). Op.63 (1990) III. Lento- largo: dolcissimo-cantabalissimo
Patricia Rozario, Vourneen Ryan, Michael McHale and Stephen Kelly
X) John Cage (1912–-92)
In a Landscape
Michael McHale

A Place Between is presented with funding from the Music Network/Arts Council Music ~Recording Scheme 2008, and financially supported by Drogheda Arts Office, Louth County Arts Office and Dundalk Arts Office.