A Carey Blyton Shoal of Fishes |
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Year of publication | 2016 |
Type of work | CD recording |
CD Duration | 00:55:50 |
Performers | Chameleon Arts Wind Quintet; Harriet Adie, harp; Derek Foster, vibraphone; Ian Partridge, narrator |
Publisher | Sleeveless Records |
Notes | All world première recordings |
Work | Movement | Duration | |
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1 | A Shoal of Fishes | 1: Tobiuo or Tobiuwo (Flying Fish) | 1:38 |
2 | 2: Suzuki (Japanese Sea-Perch) | 1:30 | |
3 | 3: Ebi (Shrimp) | 0:55 | |
4 | 4: Shima-hata (Grouper) | 1:35 | |
5 | 5: Ai (Trout) | 1:01 | |
6 | 6: Akadai, Kurodai (Bream) | 0:50 | |
7 | 7: Bora (Common Grey Mullet) | 0:55 | |
8 | 8: Koi (Carp) | 1:10 | |
9 | 9: Saba or Hirasaba (Mackerel) | 1:34 | |
10 | A Catch for Wind Instruments | Prelude (‘Sumer is icumen in’) | 0:58 |
11 | 1: The Gudgeon | 0:49 | |
12 | 2: The Loach | 0:51 | |
13 | 3: The Minnow or Penk | 0:29 | |
14 | 4: The Carp | 0:35 | |
15 | 5: The Umber or Grayling | 1:05 | |
16 | 6: The Eel | 0:49 | |
17 | 7: The Luce or Pike | 0:42 | |
18 | 8: The Miller’s Thumb or Bullhead | 0:41 | |
19 | 9: The Sticklebag | 1:10 | |
20 | 10: The Dace or Dare | 0:43 | |
21 | 11: The Tench | 1:18 | |
22 | 12: The Pearch | 0:53 | |
23 | 13: The Pope or Ruffe | 1:12 | |
24 | 14: The Chavender or Chub | 0:33 | |
25 | 15: The Bream | 1:17 | |
26 | 16: The Trout | 0:54 | |
27 | 17: The Bleak or Freshwater Sprat | 0:23 | |
28 | 18: The Roach | 1:53 | |
29 | 19: The Barbel | 1:18 | |
30 | 20: The Rud | 0:49 | |
31 | 21: The Salmon | 0:44 | |
32 | Postlude (‘Sumer is icumen in’) | 1:07 | |
33 | Five Diversions | 1: Vacilación (Habañera) | 2:54 |
34 | 2: The Lake at Evening | 2:14 | |
35 | 3: The Girl with the Auburn Hair | 2:44 | |
36 | 4: Twilit Willows | 2:15 | |
37 | 5: A Little Waltz | 1:40 | |
38 | Carp in the Rain | 4:27 | |
39 | The Indian Coffee House Roof Garden Orchestra Tango: Last Tango in Pondicherry | 1:53 | |
40 | A Little Trio for Wind Instruments | 1: Fanfare | 1:28 |
41 | 2: Faburden (Brittany Beach) | 1:44 | |
42 | 3: Finale (Memories of the Opera) | 2:03 | |
Total duration: | 55:50 |
The Shoal of Fishes design is terrific – a lovely presentation and certainly “stands out from the crowd”. Many thanks indeed.
—Mary Blyton, composer’s window (private correspondence), October 2016
Before I had even played any of the music, I realised at once that this was a ‘quality item’. The presentation box, the booklet and the explanatory notes all combine to make it a very attractive publication for potential buyers.
—Frank Bayford, Private correspondence, October 2016
Love your design!
—Michael Ponder, Sound Engineer/Producer (private correspondence), October 2016
The composer of hit children’s song Banana [sic] in Pyjamas (and nephew of Enid), Carey Blyton proves himself an artful composer in this charming, well performed collection of fishy wind quintets [sic]. ★★★
—Rebecca Franks, BBC Music Magazine, January 2017 (Vol. 25, no 4), December 2016
…the booklet is delightfully littered with coloured drawings of various fish […] and has been beautifully designed…
The performances, it seems to me, could not be bettered.
…this disc is the exquisitely colourful fruit of a collaboration between the Carey Blyton Trust and Peter Thompson’s Fand Music Press.
The music speaks of a salubrious and dignified creative imagination. Carey Blyton knew music’s art and craftsman’s measure and wrote nothing ugly or dull or at odds with art or craft.
…a disc that moves from approaches to the sublime to the broadest humour.