Music that engages with a wider cultural context, yet has intensity of feeling and emotional focus. Gavin Dixon Music Web international
Ireland’s LCMS is an admirable repository of modern composition. Path offers a typical miscellany of contemporary works – the Dublin Guitar Quartet’s sublime take on Arvo Pärt’s Summa and Patricia Rozario and Michael McHale’s world premiere recording of John Tavener’s Epistle of Love among its exquisitely rendered highlights ****Path David Sheppard Mojo
Path Reviewed by Andy Gill Friday, 29 October 2010
World premieres by Arvo Pärt and John Tavener are the main attractions of this anthology, though supporting material by Uzbek, Serbian and Georgian composers is equally engaging, particularly the two movements of Yanovsky’s “Chang Music IV”, which blend cello glissandi with koto-style pizzicato.
Pärt’s Von Angesicht zu Angesicht features a baritone and soprano rendering of Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, while “Summa” transfers well to guitar quartet. Tavener’s “Epistle Of Love” and “Sámaveda” reflect his interest in the diversity of religious musical expression, the former’s near-acappella treatment contrasting with the latter’s flute and tamboura drone.
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