{"id":6783,"date":"2015-04-26T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2015-04-26T13:36:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T12:36:31","slug":"gramophone-magazine-rave-for-wall-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2015\/04\/26\/gramophone-magazine-rave-for-wall-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Review: Gramophone Magazine on English String Orchestra, &#8220;Wall of Water&#8221; by Deborah Pritchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the May 2015 issue of Gramophone Magazine<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce \"><ul class=\"products columns-4\">\n<li class=\"product type-product post-6586 status-publish first instock product_cat-cds has-post-thumbnail shipping-taxable purchasable product-type-simple\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/product\/deborah-pritchard-wall-of-water\/\" class=\"woocommerce-LoopProduct-link woocommerce-loop-product__link\"><span class=\"et_shop_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wall-of-water-cover-v3-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-woocommerce_thumbnail size-woocommerce_thumbnail\" alt=\"Deborah Pritchard- Wall of Water\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wall-of-water-cover-v3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wall-of-water-cover-v3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wall-of-water-cover-v3-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wall-of-water-cover-v3-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wall-of-water-cover-v3-570x570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wall-of-water-cover-v3-380x380.jpg 380w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wall-of-water-cover-v3-285x285.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span class=\"et_overlay\"><\/span><\/span><h2 class=\"woocommerce-loop-product__title\">Deborah Pritchard- Wall of Water<\/h2>\n\t<span class=\"price\"><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-amount amount\"><bdi><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-currencySymbol\">&pound;<\/span>7.00<\/bdi><\/span><\/span>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Pritchard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Violin Concerto, \u201cWall of Water\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harriet Mackenzie <\/strong><em>vn <\/em><strong>\u00a0English String Orchestra \/ Kenneth Woods<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nimbus Alliance<\/strong> (S) CD <strong>NI1555<\/strong><strong> (21\u2019 <sup>.<\/sup> DDD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every now and then, a new work comes along that simply takes one\u2019s breath away. The Violin Concerto <em>Wall of Water<\/em> (2014) by Deborah Pritchard is one such. Composed last year \u201cin response to the paintings by Maggi Hambling\u201d\u2014a sequence of at the time 13 paintings inspired by the Suffolk coast\u2014the concerto is scored for a chamber group of 13 strings only: the soloist plus seven orchestral violinists, pairs of violas and cellos and a double-bass.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the modest forces employed, the concerto is ablaze with colour across its twenty-one minutes, mirroring the transitions of colours in the Hambling paintings, with muted tones and colour ranges in the outer sections (corresponding roughly to paintings I-III and XII-XIII) enclosing a richer and more varied palette for paintings IV-XI, the whole framed by an opening solo violin cadenza and its varied reprise emerging from and returning to the darkness. (In live performance, the concerto can be accompanied by a synchronised video display of the Hambling paintings, but the music stands supremely well by itself.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Wall of Water <\/em>was written for Harriet Mackenzie (one member of the superb Retorica Duo, 2\/13, 4\/13), who plays this alternately elegiac and passionate music with a burning commitment and intensity that composers usually only dream of, but then she has been gifted a work whose high quality is rarely encountered. This is a wonderful performance of a wonderful concerto, completed by immaculate accompaniment from the English String Orchestra directed by the tireless Kenneth Woods. Very, <em>very<\/em> strongly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Guy Rickards<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2015\/04\/26\/gramophone-magazine-rave-for-wall-of-water\/gramophone-wall-of-water-review\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6784\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6784\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Gramophone-Wall-of-Water-Review.jpg\" alt=\"Gramophone Wall of Water Review\" width=\"280\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Gramophone-Wall-of-Water-Review.jpg 280w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Gramophone-Wall-of-Water-Review-102x300.jpg 102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2015\/04\/26\/gramophone-magazine-rave-for-wall-of-water\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a wonderful performance of a wonderful concerto, completed by immaculate accompaniment from the English String Orchestra directed by the tireless Kenneth Woods. Very, very strongly recommended.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[954],"tags":[854,1040,1036,1039,1038,1037],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-deborah-pritchard","tag-english-string-orchestra","tag-gramopohne","tag-harriet-mackenzie","tag-maggi-hambling","tag-wall-of-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6788,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions\/6788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}