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Composer or Director: Bramwell Tovey, George Benjamin, Traditional, Kenneth Hesketh, Michael Tippett, Richard Rodney Bennett, Judith Bingham, Philip Wilby
Genre:
Chamber
Label: NMC
Magazine Review Date: 1/2009
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Catalogue Number: NMCD142
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Flowers of the Forest |
Traditional, Composer
Bramwell Tovey, Composer Foden's Richardson Band Traditional, Composer |
Reflections on a Scottish Folk Song |
Richard Rodney Bennett, Composer
Bramwell Tovey, Composer Foden's Richardson Band Richard Rodney Bennett, Composer |
(The) Alchymist's Journal |
Kenneth Hesketh, Composer
Bramwell Tovey, Composer Foden's Richardson Band Kenneth Hesketh, Composer |
Altitude |
George Benjamin, Composer
Bramwell Tovey, Composer Foden's Richardson Band George Benjamin, Composer |
Prague |
Judith Bingham, Composer
Bramwell Tovey, Composer Foden's Richardson Band Judith Bingham, Composer |
Shadow Songs |
Philip Wilby, Composer
Bramwell Tovey, Composer Foden's Richardson Band Philip Wilby, Composer |
(The) Midsummer Marriage |
Michael Tippett, Composer
Bramwell Tovey, Composer Foden's Richardson Band Michael Tippett, Composer |
Composer or Director: Jan Morris Bach, John McCabe, Michael Nyman, Nigel Waddington, James Hesford
Genre:
Chamber
Label: London Independent Records
Magazine Review Date: 1/2009
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: LIR015
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Chuck's Big Leaps |
James Hesford, Composer
James Hesford, Composer Mardí Brass |
Masque Arias |
Michael Nyman, Composer
Mardí Brass Michael Nyman, Composer |
Rounds and Dances |
Jan Morris Bach, Composer
Jan Morris Bach, Composer Mardí Brass |
Hawk in Winter Light |
John McCabe, Composer
John McCabe, Composer Mardí Brass |
(4) Minatures |
Nigel Waddington, Composer
Mardí Brass Nigel Waddington, Composer |
Author: Richard_Whitehouse
In the band domain, Foden’s Richardson Band continue to set the pace. “New Music for Brass Band” is a fine showcase, but the elegiac outer sections of Richard Rodney Bennett’s Flowers of the Forest are arguably more arresting than the depiction of the Battle of Flodden Field. The motivic ingenuity and capricious manner of The Alchymist’s Journal suggest Kenneth Hesketh is as much at home here as with wind band, and how good to have a recording of the teenage George Benjamin’s scintillating Altitude. The aggression of Judith Bingham’s Prague confirms it as no mere suite touristique, though only the quixotic “Charles Bridge” lingers in the memory, but Philip Wilby’s Shadow Songs is a memorial whose rapt introspection and superfine shadings outline new territory. Variations on a Theme of Tippett was commissioned for the composer’s centenary: of its five movements, those by Edward Gregson and Elgar Howarth show equal identity with the Tippett idiom as with the chosen medium, while Wilby’s “Birthday Fugue and Finale” concludes the suite with coursing dynamism.
Both discs are superbly recorded, in acoustics appropriate to their content, with detailed booklet-notes. Anyone attracted to either medium or to brass music in general should not hesitate.
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