Turning World is a CD recording, a selection of Elis Pehkonen’s Tonal Music released 2006 to celebrate 40 years as a professional composer.
Each piece inspired by a different area in the world.
Tracks
Turning World
East Anglia
Lesley-Jane Rogers (Soprano) and Richard Leigh Harris (Piano).
Tara’s Harp
Ireland
Danielle Perrett (Harp).
Hymn to the Sun
Crete
John Turner (Recorder).
Irinna’s Song
Greek Islands
Raymond Burley (Guitar).
Travel Sonata
Iceland, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal
Fenella Humphreys (Violin) and Helen Reid (Piano).
The White Swan
Russia
Hilary Thomas (Soprano) and Keith Swallow (Piano).
Mountain Sketches
Skye, Wester Ross, & Sutherland, Scotland
Ross Winters (Alto Recorder) and Richard Leigh Harris (Piano).
Athena’s Flute
Greece
Timothy Kipling (Flute) and Danielle Perret (Harp).
Black Swans
Australia
Lesley-Jane Rogers (Soprano) and Richard Leigh Harris (Piano).
Over the Water
The Hebrides
John Turner (Recorder) and Manchester Camerata Ensemble.
Agnus Dei (final movement of The Russian Requiem)
Russia
Jeremy Patterson conducting the Birmingham Festival Choral Society and Orchestra.
Production
General Producer, Ian Hayter; Principal Engineer, Tryggvi Tryggvason; East Anglian Windmill Design, Ian Thompson (erstwhile President of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts).
Reviews
Jonathan Woolf, Music Web International
Turning World takes in Song & Sonata from the quiet rapture and longing of the title track via the vibrant Tara’s Harp, the beautifully controlled Hymn to the Sun, through to the Travel Sonata for violin and piano dashing us about from Scots-Irishry to Francophile scherzo brevity, thence via a lyric long-song to an exciting finale. Pehkonen has a poet’s ear for the stress and fall of his texts and his songs are invariably worth hearing. His music is tonal, lyric, melancholic, bardic and much more besides.