Lucy Humphris, Harry Rylance – Obscurus (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Lucy Humphris, Harry Rylance – Obscurus (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 58:37 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
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Obscurus is an exploration of the obscured, in a programme which showcases some of the most incredible trumpet writing of the 20th and 21st century, as well as several reimaginings of older, more mainstream works for other instruments, arranged for trumpet by Lucy Humphris.

In the Mists, written by Janáček is a four-movement piano cycle: an almost impressionist, Debussy-like exploration of the ‘misty’ keys of several flats. At times rhapsodic, and always very evocative, I reimagined it for trumpet.

The incredible Litany for a Ruined Chapel between Sheep and Shore is Peter Maxwell Davies’ homage to a ruined chapel in the Orkney islands and is, one of the most stunning and vocal works for trumpet composed in the 20th century.

Messiaen’s Vocalise-Étude is a piece which works so well on so many instruments – It is such a wonderful, almost nostalgic piece, which feels as though it is trying to express something for which words are unnecessary.

Tracklist:
1-1. Lucy Humphris – I. Andante (04:39)
1-2. Lucy Humphris – II. Molto adagio (03:13)
1-3. Lucy Humphris – III. Andantino (02:22)
1-4. Lucy Humphris – IV. Presto (04:57)
1-5. Lucy Humphris – Litany for a Ruined Chapel between Sheep and Shore: I. (05:37)
1-6. Lucy Humphris – Litany for a Ruined Chapel between Sheep and Shore: II. (03:20)
1-7. Lucy Humphris – Litany for a Ruined Chapel between Sheep and Shore: III. (02:29)
1-8. Lucy Humphris – Étude (03:41)
1-9. Lucy Humphris – Ostria (08:11)
1-10. Lucy Humphris – I. Balleto (02:30)
1-11. Lucy Humphris – II. Gagliarda (03:04)
1-12. Lucy Humphris – III. Villanella (04:22)
1-13. Lucy Humphris – Passo mezzo e mascherada (03:38)
1-14. Lucy Humphris – Paths (In Memoriam Witold Lutoslawski) (06:29)

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