Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works album review – momentum and drive from the Master of the King's Music
Two works include voices. By Gis and by St Charity is a short and effective setting of Shakespeare, compellingly delivered by Ruby Hughes, with the orchestral players' chants of 'shame!' drawing us into Ophelia's claustrophobic inner world. Idunnu Münch is the vivid soloist in This Frame is Part of the Painting, which, setting Wallen's own words, captures the vivid colours of Howard Hodgkin's paintings.
The newest work, 2023's Dances for Orchestra, zips through 1990s house music – with a repeating bass thudded out by low strings and timpani – to a perky folk-like dance for solo flute, to an 18th-century-style sarabande, and more. It is here that Wallen's variety is heard to its clearest and sparkiest effect.
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