The title of this collection of vocal music by Scottish composer Judith Weir refers only to the opening track, a song setting a non-animal-rights-friendly folk text about how to judge a horse for purchase ("four white feet and a white nose/take off his hide and feed him to the crows"). Yet the song gives a good introduction to the artistry shown by both composer and performers in this delightful group of contemporary songs. Weir often draws on traditional (and folk-ish) texts, from her native Scotland, from Spain, and from ...
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The title of this collection of vocal music by Scottish composer Judith Weir refers only to the opening track, a song setting a non-animal-rights-friendly folk text about how to judge a horse for purchase ("four white feet and a white nose/take off his hide and feed him to the crows"). Yet the song gives a good introduction to the artistry shown by both composer and performers in this delightful group of contemporary songs. Weir often draws on traditional (and folk-ish) texts, from her native Scotland, from Spain, and from elsewhere. ("I have no idea why one singer ends up with Chinese philosophy whilst another has to sing a Serbian song about trousers," she wrote.) She writes in a loosely tonal idiom with accompanimental figures that rely on repetition yet carry on lives of their own, apart from the vocal line. And she favors quizzical texts, veering between rough humor and profound sadness, which she quite expertly balances with music that has a knack for leaving the listener hanging. Some of the...
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