Il Sogno :: Promo Web Site
The fine folks at Deutsche Gramaphone have put up a page for the upcoming Costello title. Some Excerpts:
Prepare yourselves for Elvis Costello's next musical adventure: Following the success of his intimate collection of love songs North, which remained at the top of Billboard Traditional Jazz charts for several weeks in 2003, Deutsche Grammophon is releasing Elvis Costello's first full-scale orchestral work. Il Sogno is compelling ballet music, successfully blending elements of impressionistic classical style à la Debussy with a bit of jazz.
". . . this former angry young man has grown into perhaps the most adventurous and accomplished musical polymath of our times . . . It is almost skittish in flavour, light and playful and entirely lacking in the kind of darkness that characterises Costello's songwriting. It is as if, liberated from his black lyrical sensibility, he has abandoned himself to the delightful possibilities of instrumental music . . . "Il Sogno" shifts its musical terrain from Debussy-like harmonies to Leonard Bernstein-flavoured jazz and swing, making references to Broadway musicals as much as to the classics . . . it abundantly displays the musical diversity that has become Costello's hallmark." Neil McCormick , Daily Telegraph, 20 July 2004
(submitted by Conner Ratliff)