Composer: Eleanor Alberga
Performer: Thomas Bowes, Morgan Pearse
Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Kenneth Woods
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Lyrita
Catalogue: SRCD405
Release: 2022
Size: 328 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Violin Concerto No. 2 ‘Narcissus’
01. — (1)
02. — (2)
03. — (3)
The Soul’s Expression
04. I. George Eliot. Blue Wings
05. II. Emily Brontë. The Sun Has Set
06. III. George Eliot. Roses
07. IV. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Soul’s Expression
Violin Concerto No. 1
08. I. Moderato
09. II. Adagio ‘Requiem pour une maison’
10. III. Allegro molto
Eleanor Alberga was born in 1949 in Kingston, Jamaica. Her mother founded, and subsequently ran, her own high school in Jamaica and believed passionately in the Arts. Consequently, Eleanor was introduced to classical music at an early age. As a teenager she had piano lessons at the Jamaica School of Music and in 1968 she won the biennial Royal Schools of Music Scholarship for the West Indies, which she took up two years later at the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying piano and singing. 2001 was a turning point when she was awarded a NESTA Fellowship and chose to give up her career as a concert pianist and concentrate full-time on composition. Her distinctive creative output encompasses instrumental, chamber and orchestral pieces, as well as works for stage and film. With its vibrant rhythms, rich harmonies and idiomatic writing for every instrument, her music has the authentic stamp of an experienced performer and an accomplished executant.