LAMB: Meditations

Meditations is an evocative and explorative mix of different and distinctive sounds written to four poems around the themes of Love, Loss, Hope and Peace. Siobhan wrote this piece in 2007 inspired by the desire to draw an improvised sound into a classical setting. Siobhan Lamb creates the musical dialogue by weaving together the lines of a string quartet, a vocal group specialising in medieval chant, a harpist, a percussionist from the world music tradition, as well as for one section the pure sound of a children's choir. This comes to life with the interaction over the top of Gerard Presencer's improvising mastery, as he responds with his world class trumpet playing. Siobhan wanted to infuse the classical tradition with the jazz world in an acoustic setting to allow the sounds their fullest expression. Siobhan also embraces silence within her piece to add further dimension to the landscape and to open up the space to everyone within in, Meditations has received glowing reviews following its London premiere at the London Jazz Festival in November 2007, described as 'unmissable', 'tantalising' and 'expansively beautiful'. (Guardian newspaper) Meditations was recorded at the Royal Academy of Music and was produced by Jeremy Summerly the award winning producer of many Early Music releases.