The full range of Tansy Davies's varied modernist interests is displayed on
Troubairitz, from the title suite itself, a song-cycle based on 19th-century
poems by women troubadours, sung here either a cappella or with minimal
accompaniment by Anna Snow, to the more animated pieces such as "Inside
Out 2", a brittle bricolage of pizzicato and percussion sounds, and "Grind
Show", a musical evocation of a typically bleak, disturbing Goya
painting, Pilgrimage of St Isadore, picked out in stalking piano, pizzicato
and woodwind.
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