Life partners and musical duo Boyd Meets Girl – Australian guitarist Rupert Boyd and American cellist Laura Metcalf – spent most of 2020 locked down in New York with their baby son, playing music together and, like many of us in these pandemic times, re-evaluating their lives.
The result is their second album, Songs of Love and Despair, a worthy follow-up to their eponymous debut on the Sono Luminus label. As before their repertoire is wide and varied, touching on Debussy (their arrangement of Arabesque No 1, inspired by Helene Grimaud’s playing), Schubert (Gretchen am Spinnrade) and Corelli’s Sonata in A alongside Beyoncé’s Pray You Catch Me and Radiohead’s Daydreaming.
Boyd draws on his pop heroes for two Beatles numbers – Blackbird with its classical guitar lick and George Martin’s chamber masterpiece arrangement for Eleanor Rigby.
Australian guitarist-composer Marian Budos wrote the couple a suitably frenetic tribute to their home town, A New York...
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