Earth, Sweet Earth / Winter Words
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LEIGHTON / BRITTON
Earth, Sweet Earth / Winter Words
James Gilchrist (tenor) / Anna Tilbrook (piano)
[ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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"Gilchrist and Tilbrook are an outstandingly accomplished and sensitive modern combination...the Leighton is a great gift." Gramophone Magazine, January 2011
"[Earth, Sweet Earth is] a compelling musical span, and makes great demands on both performers; the piano writing in particular is hugely virtuosic, but Tilbrook meets its challenges superbly. Winter Words...is more familiar territory, and Gilchrist and Tilbrook judge its scale perfectly, making every detail of the musical and verbal imagery precise" The Guardian, 23rd September 2010 ***
"vividly nuanced performances by the British tenor and his regular duo partner Anna Tilbrook. Each word is clear, each pianistic colour brought out. Paired, fittingly, with Winter Words by Leighton's contemporary Benjamin Britten, this haunting disc provides a fierce elegy to our lost Eden." The Observer, 26th September 2010
"Visionary and lyrical" Financial Times, 25th September 2010
"Gilchrist is an impressively rounded advocate. His enunciation is superb, his melodic phrasing is always wonderfully musical; he can be seductive, but at times there's an eloquent astringency not unlike the late Philip Langridge." BBC Music Magazine, December 2010 *****
"Gilchrist and Tilbrook are an outstandingly accomplished and sensitive modern combination...the Leighton is a great gift." Gramophone Magazine, January 2011
Tracks:
Britten:
Winter Words, Op. 52
Leighton:
Earth, Sweet Earth
