Lucy Railton - Blue Veil - VINYL LP

Subaerial' is the latest and most sophisticated transmission from the long musical partnership of cellist Lucy Railton and keyboardist Kit Downes, a collaborative history that stretches back thirteen years. From the beginning, the pair bridged musical worlds, with the former emerging from classical and contemporary music and the latter steeped in jazz tradition. This phenomenal new album captures the musicians erasing lines between approaches and traditions. While improvisation has always been a part of their alliance, Subaerial marks the first time that the duo have used recorded improvisations as the core material for a . The cello and organ, beautifully recorded by Alex Bonney at Skáholt Cathedral, blend in richly striated harmonies, with phrases and cadences that stretch back centuries while sounding unerringly contemporary Album Tracks 1. Down to the Plains 2. Lazuli 3. Folding in 4. Under the Air 5. Torch Duet 6. Partitions 7. Of Becoming and Dying

Album Tracks 1. Tosca Act I Opening-Ah! Here in Safety 2. Tosca Act I I Don't Believe It 3. Tosca Act I Give Me My Palette! 4. Tosca Act I Mario! Mario! Mario! 5. Tosca Act I Our Little House in the Country 6. Tosca Act I What Eyes in All the Wide World 7. Tosca Act I All the Choir in Here at Once! 8. Tosca Act I You Make the Church a Fairground 9. Tosca Act I Mario?! Mario?! 10. Tosca Act I Three Agents, Go in a Carriage 1. Tosca Act II Tosca, My Falcon 2. Tosca Act II Richer Far Is the Flavour 3. Tosca Act II It Seemed Wise to Arrest Him 4. Tosca Act II Now You and I Can Talk 5. Tosca Act II Enough. Tosca, Your Answer 6. Tosca Act II Floria! 7. Tosca Act II How Much? 8. Tosca Act II Life Has Taught Me Singing and Loving 9. Tosca Act II Which Route Have You Chosen? 10. Tosca Act III No Words Can Cheer Me 11. Tosca Act III All the Stars Shone in Heaven 12. Tosca Act III Oh, Hands of Mercy 13. Tosca Act III What a Time They Are Taking!

On 9 October 1943, NBC Radio in New York broadcast the world premiere of a one-act opera by Italo Montemezzi (1875-1952), L'incantesimo, (The Spell), with Italian libretto by playwright Sem Benelli (1877-1949). The broadcast was a belated form of recognition, because by that time Montemezzi was widely famous in the United States. Conducted by Arturo Toscanini, this opera ran in New York for 25 seasons - an extraordinarily long-lived success, with such major names as Serafin, Stokowsky, de Sabata and Bruno Walter conducting quality editions of the work to widespread critical approval. In the New York Times, the respected critic Olin Downs echoed the general enthusiasm, praising the music, action and style as eminently suited to performance on the radio, adding that the work's lyricism was as strong as in L'Amore dei tre re, although perhaps less immediate than Puccini's. Montemezzi's moderately modern music follows a middle path between a freely declamatory approach for the main characters and more markedly melodic passages for tenor and soprano which might easily pass for short concert pieces or in the great narrative scene of the description of the hunt. Nonetheless, Montemezzi's real capacity for invention lies in his orchestral writing which evokes Wagnerian Inchinfinite melodyInch and, in certain sections, the imaginative symphonic approach of Richard Strauss with it's variety, wealth of color, modulation, rhythmic phrasing, and solo instrumental gesture. Album Tracks 1. Incantesimo~Nevica ancora?... 2. Incantesimo~Egli ha presso di sè un negromante 3. Incantesimo~È giunto il Conte 4. Incantesimo~Venga il Sapiente! 5. Incantesimo~Cacciator senza paura 6. Incantesimo~La cerva aveva il mio volto 7. Incantesimo~L'Amore fu! 8. Incantesimo~Parla, mago! 9. Incantesimo~Che vuoi sapere? 10. Incantesimo~Io non lo so 11. Incantesimo~Perché farlo so