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Naomi Pinnock: Lines and Spaces
WER 6431 2 (Wergo, CD)
NEW RELEASE (29 May 2020)
Playing time: 53'21"
Tracks: 16
Booklet pages: 36
© 2020 Wergo
Main country of recording: UK
Country of manufacture: DE
Reviewer: Geoff Pearce
Review of Naomi Pinnock: Lines and Spaces published on 13 September 2020
Listen: Naomi Pinnock: Retrace your steps (String Quartet No 2) (track 1, 0:00-0:50)
Quatuor Bozzini (tracks 1-2)
Omar Ebrahim, baritone (tracks 3-5)
London Sinfonietta (tracks 3-5)
Beat Furrer, conductor (tracks 3-5)
Richard Uttley, piano (tracks 6-11)
Ensemble Adapter (tracks 12-16)
Naomi Pinnock (born 1979):
String Quartet No 2 (2011-12)
1 I Retrace your steps
2 II
Words (2010-11) for baritone and ensemble
3 Why ... (a night song)
4 Solve a night
5 Again nothing why (on forgetting)
Lines and Spaces (2015) for piano
6 Space I
7 Line I
8 Space II On a Clear Day
9 Line II
10 Space III Song
11 Line III
Music for Europe (2016) for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano and harp
12 I Transparent lament
13 II Porous with loss (I)
14 III
15 IV Porous with loss (II)
16 V Rising, rising
Recorded 22 November 2019 at St John the Baptist, Dethick, Derbyshire UK (tracks 1-2), 12 March 2011 by the BBC in the UK (tracks 3-5), 21 May 2019 at SJE Arts Church, Oxford UK (tracks 6-11) and 23 January 2019 in the Kleiner Sendesaal, Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin, Germany (tracks 12-16)