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Martin Suckling: The TuningSUMMARY REVIEWS TRACK LISTING INFO The everyday is transfigured in this intimate collection of chamber music and songs by leading young Scottish composer Martin Suckling settings for mezzo soprano and piano of five magical, moonlit poems by Michael Donaghy and a string quintet written in collaboration with the poet Frances Leviston, whose readings of her own texts frame the four movements of a piece which pays dual homage to Schubert and to Emily

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this recording does justice to an unusual though worthwhile undertaking - one which has persuasively fulfilled its implicit brief to educate yet also entertain

The piano music on this disc spans his career from 1963 to 2008

Silas Wollston uses the appropriate (Italian-style) instruments to explore the typical features of the keyboard repertoire

"There's plenty of drive and commitment to this performance

poignantly rendered here by Frances Cooper

as Bach ends by returning to the opening Aria

displays great sensitivity in his accompaniments

these nine variations are based on a Uyghur folksong - and she plays them with lively characterfulness and authority

is just as it should be

"This new recording is an excellent one

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