Still, luminous and transcendently beautiful, this song – the last in Zoë’s In the Park song cycle – has been selected to feature on two Apple playlists:
“The other pre-release is in perfect contrast, part of Martlew’s song-cycle In the Park, the movement entitled “In the Kyoto Garden” (as in the one in Holland Park, Kensington). The singer here is the miraculous Alessandro Fisher, whose purity of tone is perfect for the opening words, “Still pool.” against piano droplets from the ever-musical Lana Bode (one of the finest collaborative pianists around today). “A peacock cries” go the words… this is a portrait of the internal stillness the Kyoto Garden can inspire…
Classical Explorer
Album Z launch concert – Kings Place, London