This little disc from Scotland pairs two young performers: mezzo-soprano Polly May and piano accompanist Lucy Walker. It has the flavor of recitals that students mount in order to push the boundaries a little, not least because the acoustics of the album have a spacious recital-hall feel that's a little indistinct. The notes are prefaced by a meaningless quote from Teilhard de Chardin, and they're rather short on actual information about the music. Songs from the Exotic may be the first album ever to contain works by both ...
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This little disc from Scotland pairs two young performers: mezzo-soprano Polly May and piano accompanist Lucy Walker. It has the flavor of recitals that students mount in order to push the boundaries a little, not least because the acoustics of the album have a spacious recital-hall feel that's a little indistinct. The notes are prefaced by a meaningless quote from Teilhard de Chardin, and they're rather short on actual information about the music. Songs from the Exotic may be the first album ever to contain works by both Spanish conservative Joaquín Rodrigo (the Madrigales amatorios) and Italian innovator Luciano Berio (the Quattro canzoni popolari). With the title Songs from the Exotic by contemporary British composer Judith Weir and Falla's Siete canciones populares españolas also on hand, the collection of music qualifies as quite unusual except in the case of the Falla. The program doesn't quite make a coherent statement about the uses of folk and popular song in the twentieth century, but it does...
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