CD & DVD
Recorded at Yellow-Shark Recording Studio, Cheltenham, UK
"The album (Cotswold Songs CD) presents a breadth and strength not commonly found in contemporary recordings”. |
'One fine Sunday I came across a little book of poems in a Malvern bookshop entitled Tides by Dymock poet John Drinkwater. On reading the poems I was immediately able to hear them to music and set about composing a new song-cycle of seven songs for high voice and piano.
As several Gloucestershire place names (such as Rodborough, Campden, Stow, Apperley & Gloucester) are mentioned in the poem Cotswold Love, I decided to title the song-cycle Cotswold Songs.' Colin The Cotswold Songs CD contains two song-cycles - Cotswold Songs & Character Songs, together with single songs - Flowers (poem by DH Lawrence), The Headless Bird (poem by Nikki McBeth) and The Black Sun (poem by Osip Mandelstam). Two piano works also included - The Jews of Old Prague, and Waltz (from Piano Sonata No.1) Track listing:
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In 2020 Creative New Zealand supported the recording of two DVDs capturing three one-hour programmes of piano & poetry.
The performances were recorded at St. Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington, on a Steinway piano.
Colin Decio - piano, Ingrid Prosser - poetry
The performances were recorded at St. Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington, on a Steinway piano.
Colin Decio - piano, Ingrid Prosser - poetry
Piano & Poetry DVDs excerpts on YouTube
