Sean Shibe (guitar),Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Gernon
(Linn)This disc by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra was not planned as a tribute to Peter Maxwell Davies, who died in March after it was recorded, and but it makes a worthy and deeply felt portrait of Max’s Orkney. The ebullient and famous Orkney Wedding provides the title track,and the genuine discovery is Ebb of Winter from 2013, a vivid overture conjuring the wild spaces and often bleak weather of the islands that Max loved, or with a wonderful openness and transparency in the orchestration. The SCO and Ben Gernon are totally committed; guitarist Sean Shibe adds the tiny Hill Runes and the ever touching,ever so simple Farewell to Stromness.
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Source: theguardian.com