University of York Music Press

The 'Solos and Duos for Strings and Piano' CD, released by Toccata Classics last month, features five recent works:

• Gallery (Rooms 1 and 2) for solo violin (2012-14)
• ..ballare una passacaglia di ombre.. for solo violin (2011)
• Hidden Ceremonies 1 for solo piano (2013)
• Three Dances for Diana Nemorensis for solo viola (2013)
• "..under the circle of the moon.." for two violins (2004)

Maddocks's review can be read in full here:
www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/23/sadie-harrison-solos-and-duos-for-piano-and-strings-cd-review-glittering-intensity?CMP=twt_a-music_b-gdnclassical

Paul Conway's review for the July-September 2015 issue of Musical Opinion covered an all-female composer/performer concert by the Albany Trio, as part of the Late Music Concert Series in York. Conway writes,

'Sadie Harrison's The Bride's Journey in Three Songs and a Memory (2005) was inspired by the folk music of Lithuania and uses traditional songs relating to various stages in the life of a bride.  Laced with flourishes and ornamentation, the score preserves and honours its source material with sensitivity and integrity of a high order.  The players' poetic instincts were seized by the score's imagination and creativity, resulting in a reading of delicacy, precision and grace.'

The Albany Trio will next perform The Bride's Journey on Saturday 17th October 2015, 7.30pm, at Toddington Music Society, Bedfordshire.