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Track(s) taken from CDA67317

Dance to your Daddy

composer
1998; based on the Northumbrian folksong

Christopher Herrick (organ)
Recording details: October 2001
Truro Cathedral, United Kingdom
Produced by Paul Spicer
Engineered by Simon Eadon
Release date: June 2002
Total duration: 3 minutes 3 seconds
 

Reviews

‘A beautiful sense of intimacy and privacy pervades; nothing is hurried, nothing overdone … this is a superb disc’ (Gramophone)

‘The programming works exceptionally well … Herrick gives a compelling performance’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Herrick’s performances offer not only state-of-the-art sound, but the sounds of a quite special British organ’ (Fanfare, USA)
Written in 1998 for the confirmation of his daughter, this occasional piece shows a very different side of Eftestøl’s character to the densely allusive Seven Allegorical Pictures. After a few flourishes to warm up the fingers, it takes the well-known Northumbrian folksong Dance to your Daddy on a giddying journey, with constantly changing metres and cross-accentuation.

from notes by Stephen Westrop © 2002

Écrite en 1998 pour la confirmation de sa fille, cette pièce de circonstance montre une facette du caractère d’Eftestøl bien différente de celle révélée par les Sept tableaux allégoriques, densément allusifs. Passé quelques traits de virtuosité destinés à chauffer les doigts, l’air populaire de Northumbria, Dance to your Daddy (« Danse pour ton papa »), se voit entraîner dans une virée étourdissante, riche en changements de mesure et en contretemps.

extrait des notes rédigées par Stephen Westrop © 2002
Français: Josée Bégaud

Dieses Gelegenheitswerk, 1998 zur Konfirmation seiner Tochter geschrieben, zeigt nach den anspielungsreichen Seven Allegorical Pictures eine ganz andere Seite von Eftestøls Charakter. Im Anschluss an einige Floskeln zum Aufwärmen der Finger nimmt es das bekannte Volkslied Dance to your Daddy aus der nordenglischen Grafschaft Northumbria auf eine atemberaubende Reise mit ständig wechselnden Taktarten und Gegenakzenten.

aus dem Begleittext von Stephen Westrop © 2002
Deutsch: Anne Steeb/Bernd Müller

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