It’s essentially an ambient album, subdued chamber music recorded in the warm acoustic of a large church, but the choice of works and composers makes for a varied programme. The economic success and iconic status of those recordings would be a laudable goal for this and future recording projects from the contemporary music enthusiasts of Louth.
CLASSICAL REVIEW: Hilliard Ensemble
Philip Hammond heads south for an exhilarating evening of musicial modernity
I’m on the road south. I recall from my youth a smug little Northern Irish quip that you could always tell when you were in Northern Ireland because of the roads. You still can but for the opposite reason nowadays. For safety [...]
The Irish Times Review Tue, Oct 06, 2009
Hilliard Ensemble St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dundalk
There’s a conventional wisdom that the repertoire of the mainstream classical concert has become too narrow. And it’s certainly the case that the body of work from Bach to the late romantics is as hugely popular with audiences as it is with leading performers [...]
Gramophone describes A Place Between as “a beautifully understated recording”.
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