North Star
A CD of conteporary British music for trumpet and organ is available on the Deux-Elles label to sample or purchase. North Star was chosen by Michael Church as Disc of the Week in The Independent, and selected by Radio 3’s Review for The Listening Booth.
‘Deborah Calland has established quite a niche for herself at a time when the trumpet is enjoying prominence as a primary colour in many contemporary musical landscapes. Her sound is assured and communicative, at once raunchy in the compelling Three Orations by Huw Watkins and John Hawkins’s Sortie, yet innately lyrical with all the risks inherent in Rhian Samuel’s and Robin Holloway’s exposed and atmospheric creations.
Far from a heavy-going recital of an unfashionable duo medium (at least in this country), Calland and the prize-winning organist William Whitehead seek out vibrancy of timbre and a definition of character rarely achieved in reverberant buildings, where the best organs tend to reside.’
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Gramophone
All in all, a rewarding and stimulating collection of contemporary Britsh music which makes a very worthwhile contribution to the trumpet and organ genre. The playing throughout is impeccable and persuasive and the recorded sound is excellent
Glyn Pursglove, Music Web
Deadly Pleasures
The acclaimed ensemble Counterpoise brings its groundbreaking repertoire to CD for the first time with two of its most successfrl commissions for spoken narrator and ensemble. In John Casken’s Deadly Pleasures, Donald Maxwell tells the story of nights of passion and subsequent forfeits at Cleopatra’s court, while in David Matthews’ Actaeon, Eleanor Bron narrates Ovid’s tale of Diana and Actaeon in Ted Hughes’ vibrant translation. Britten’s jazz- inflected Cabaret Suite and the Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, played on the soprano saxophone, complete the programme.
Kokoschka’s Doll
Deborah Calland appears as trumpeter with her ensemble Counterpoise on the recording of Kokoschka’s Doll, a commission from John Casken, featuring Sir John Tomlinson and Rozanna Madylus. See Counterpoise for further details