Description
The title Blue Skies, Magpies and Goldfish refers not only to images in the pieces, but also to the overall mood – playful, optimistic and sunny.
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Track Listing:
Magpie Baby: A Childhood Suite – Nadje Noordhuis
for soprano and alto recorders, harpsichord, voice and cello, with lyrics by Angus Ryan
1. Baby Born
2. Wiggle Wobble
3. Building Blocks
4. Teeter Totter
5. Jiggle and Jostle
6. Li’l Lullaby
7. Running Rampant
8. Memory Mine
Re-Inventions (based on two-part inventions of JS Bach) – Elena Kats Chernin
arranged for recorders and harpsichord
9. Re-invention No. 1 (based on Invention #8 in F major)
10. Re-invention No. 2 (based on Invention #4 in D minor)
11. Re-invention No. 3 (based on Invention #13 in A minor
12. Re-invention No. 4 (based on Invention #1 in C major)
13. Re-invention No. 5 (based on Invention #6 in E major)
14. Re-invention No. 6 (based on Invention #10 in G major)
Ann Carr-Boyd
for soprano and harpsichord, with words by Don Marquis
15. man is so proud (from Trois Leçons)
Anne Boyd
arranged for tenor recorder and spinet
16. Goldfish through summer rain.
Diana Weston –
Fish Fine Music Review by Hugh Robertson: more about the cd Blue Skies, Magpies and Goldfish generally than Magpie Baby
‘The result is a delightful, playful disc of shorter pieces (under 5 minutes) that are small in scope but boundless in enthusiasm, pieces that instantly call to mind long, lazy, sunny afternoons with birds singing in the trees around you, and that sense of tranquility that comes from even the busiest of nature scenes.’
Diana Weston –
ClassiKon Review by Roger Donbavand
‘Magpie Baby, I really enjoyed having had two boys and brought them up; it is a suite about childhood covering birth, the developing toddler through to Running Rampant. It a very characterful rendition of childhood and will put a smile on anyone who has had experienced the joys of bringing up children, as well as interacting with them’.