Released May 2014
Pure Music
Music for string quartet and voice by Trevor Jones. Featuring Voller String Quartet with mezzo soprano Zarah Hible, the programme begins with a short Paean for the quartet, followed by Border Songs, a cycle of four songs with Zarah and the quartet to poems by Edward Storey. Trevor's First String Quartet then occupies the central part of the CD. This has four movements. Following this is a dramatic setting of Storey's 'The Dark Music' with Zarah and the quartet. The programme concludes with an Elegy. The three long works have been performed in Gloucestershire. The style of the music has been described as English Pastoral. Listeners have described the Voller Quartet as offering a warm and sympathetic tone on this CD, and have hailed Zarah's diction as 'excellent'.