When I spoke to composer Libby Croad earlier this year [see my interview, ‘Something juicy that you can get your teeth into’] she was just starting work on a new piece for the Dionysius Ensemble. This has now come to fruition and has been released. The work, Rivers is for string quartet, clarinet and harp, and the ensemble recorded it earlier this year in Slough.
The accompanying video includes river photos taken as part of the project’s Slough wide Jubilee River photography competition, whose winner was Talvin Singh Deeks.
The video is available on YouTube, and you can stream Rivers on various platforms [LinkTree]
%20Ali%20Wright.jpg?w=670&resize=670,446&ssl=1 "Relentlessly entertaining: Louise Bakker's new production of Handel's Acis and Galatea at Opera Holland Park rather over-eggs things but features finely engaging soloists")
