Huw Watkins: In my Craft or Sullen Art

Huw Watkins: In my Craft or Sullen ArtThe centrepiece of this disc sets Dylan Thomas's defiant In my craft or sullen art for tenor and string quartet. Huw's brother Paul is soloist in the lyrical Sonata for Cello and Eight Instruments; while there are echoes of Britten and Berkeley in the beautifully wrought Three Auden Songs, sung by tenor Mark Padmore, accompanied by Huw Watkins on piano. Alina Ibragimova excels in the virtuosic Partita for solo violin, which Watkins describes as a

The Marina Kleinwort Trust

'So well performed and recorded

not just in the passages of deceptive simplicity

and apart from the xylophone and glockenspiel

'Distinctive

‘the music dances through a musical landscape full of light and shade … strongly recommended

Maida Vale

Recording Engineer: COLIN MOORFOOT

‘Night Mail with Simon Russell Beale’s suitably hushed narration catches the mystical tension and excitement with a virtuoso performance’ MusicWeb International

inspired by WH Auden's well known elegy for WB Yeats

seemingly from everywhere at once

Nicholas and Judith Goodison