Listen & tracks
9 works · 45:06
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1 Jag Vet en Dejlig Rosa Traditional 4:12
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2 Unst Boat Song / Guldklimpen Traditional 5:40
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The Snap DragonJames Oswald 2 movements4:00
- 3 i. Movement 1 2:33
- 4 ii. Movement 2 1:27
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5 Odd Ditty Alice Chance 4:07
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6 Tullochgorum / Deil Amang the Tailors Traditional 4:45
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The SnowdropJames Oswald 2 movements4:58
- 7 i. Movement 1 4:01
- 8 ii. Movement 2 :57
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9 Ca' the Yowes Traditional 5:05
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Sonata XI for Viola da GambaLorenzo Bocchi 3 movements8:27
- 10 i. Movement 1 3:44
- 11 ii. Movement 2 1:58
- 12 iii. Movement 3 2:45
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13 Twist Ye, Twine Ye / Blooms Like Stars Traditional 3:52
Snow in Summer draws on the music of northern Scotland and Scandinavia. Ancient vocal and instrumental melodies sit beside new pieces shaped by rugged northern landscapes. Winter is solitude, festivity and story-telling. The programme leaves room to dwell on time, the seasons, memory, lost loves and ties to the land.
Drawn to repertoire that already mixes baroque and folk idioms, Evergreen Ensemble commissioned a series of sonatas under the title ‘Australian Seasons’. One work was premiered on the Snow in Summer concert tour. Sydney composer Alice Chance wrote it as part of a wider push toward Australian baroque music for the twenty-first century.
The ensemble is four musicians from Melbourne, Sydney and Geelong: Shane Lestideau, Claire Patti, Jennifer Eriksson and Samantha Cohen.
Reviews
Another Northern-influenced disc comes from all-female, art-meets-folk group Evergreen Ensemble. Between them, Shane Lestideau, Claire Patti, Jennifer Eriksson and Samantha Cohen hail from Melbourne, Sydney and Geelong and here sing a selection of Scottish music that may not be specifically for Christmas, but carries an unmistakable echo of cold nights and warm fires. There’s even a commission, the attractive Odd Ditty by Australian composer Alice Chance. So, not entirely Christmassy, but an appealing disc for folk-lovers.
At the end, you’re left wanting more extended tracks from this CD, as well as more information about the music itself. . . these musicians know what they’re after in terms of style and interpretation and, while you don’t come away from this CD enthralled by your experience, you do enjoy exposure to the Evergreens’ gently unassuming enterprise.
Artists
Evergreen Ensemble
ensemble
Evergreen Ensemble is where art music and folk music meet. It features four female musicians from Melbourne, Sydney and Geelong.
Alice Chance
composer
Alice Chance is an Australian composer, conductor, arranger and lyricist. Her works are heard in concert halls from the Sydney Opera House and City Recital Hall Angel Place to the Kennedy Centre, and in cathedrals in Sydney, California and New York.
Shane Lestideau
composer
Shane Lestideau is a musician with a variety of experiences gathered over nearly every continent of the globe. Fortunate enough to have aquired a parallel education in both Classical and Traditional irish and scottish music in Australia, she has gone on to work with baroque ensembles on some of the most prestigious stages in France, fiddled her way around Ireland and Scotland, and performed and recorded with dozens of top musicians all over Europe.
Lorenzo Bocchi
composer
James Oswald
composer
James Oswald's chamber music sits easily between Scottish folk tune and galant sonata: flower-named Airs for the Seasons, fiddle variations and song airs that eighteenth-century players set beside Corelli without hierarchy.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Evergreen Ensemble · ensemble
- Shane Lestideau · baroque violin, backing vocals, direction
- Claire Patti · vocals, celtic harp
- Samantha Cohen · theorbo, baroque guitar
- Jennifer Eriksson · viola da gamba
Technical credits
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Producer
Shane Lestideau
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Recording Engineer
Mischa Herman
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Editing Engineer
Mischa Herman
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Mastering Engineer
Mischa Herman
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Venue
The Monastery, Breakwater
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