Composer: David Braid, Michael Csányi-Wills, Martin Georgiev, Adam Gorb, Raymond Head, Ian Hobson, David Hackbridge Johnson, Robert Matthew-Walker, Lloyd Moore, Rodney Newton, Dana Paul Perna
Orchestra: Ukrainian Festival Orchestra
Conductor: Paul Mann
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0504
Release: 2019
Size: 1.14 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Moore: 2 Elegies “Leavings”
01. No. 1, Departure
02. No. 2, Remembrance
03. Gorb: Desta
04. Johnson: When Words Fail…
05. Newton: Beyond Compère
06. Matthew-Walker: The Rivers of Time, Op. 151
07. Georgiev: Lifepath
08. Braid: Out of the Darkness
09. Perna: Memory Brings You
10. Hobson: Coventry Ca(sse)role
11. Head: Ave atque Vale
12. Csányi-Wills: Nocturne for Yodit
When Yodit Tekle was diagnosed with stomach cancer in late 2014, her partner, Martin Anderson, who runs Toccata Classics, asked a few composer friends to write some music for strings to bring her comfort in her illness. As her life slipped away, he had the idea that she might be remembered in music and so he began to commission other pieces for string orchestra in her memory. To his surprise, almost everyone he asked generously agreed, and so the project snowballed: there are now over 100 composers who have now written or agreed to write for it in an undertaking that is probably unique in the history of music. This third volume presents eleven more pieces in an initiative which, in effect, transforms love into something you can hear. Under the guidance of Paul Mann, who is co-ordinating this project as well as conducting it, the young players of the Ukrainian Festival really took this music to their hearts and produced performances of real intensity. Another point of interest: Yodit was from Eritrea, and so in these days when the classical world is worried that it might be appealing largely to a white, middle-class elderly male audience, here is a sequence of new classical works composed for a young black woman from north-east Africa.