Nightfall

Folk and jazz and chamber music become one in Quercus’s world, where recontextualizing of material is part of the process, prompting listeners to pay heightened attention even to familiar songs. Nightfall opens with the most famous of farewells in Auld Lang Syne, and gently breathes new life into it, leading us into a programme that includes Bob Dylan’s Don’t Think Twice, the jazz standard You Don’t Know What Love Is and the West Side Story ballad Somewhere, as well as original compositions by Huw Warren and Iain Ballamy and songs from British folk tradition, in stark and moving new arrangements. Personnel: June Tabor (voice), Iain Ballamy (saxophones), Huw Warren (piano)