A wonderful new CD combining four of Jonathan Dove’s song cycles together for the first time on disc has been released by Naxos records. The disc brings together several leading singers – Claire Booth, Patricia Bardon, Nicky Spence – unified by the sensitive piano playing of Andrew Matthews Owen. The cycles included here are
Out of Winter,
Cut My Shadow,
Ariel and
All You Who Sleep Tonight which set poetry by Robert Tear, Federico Garcia Lorca, William Shakespeare and Vikram Seth respectively, and demonstrate Dove’s great affinity and love for the voice. More details about the recording can be found at the Naxos website.