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Music for Brass by New Zealand, Nordic and British Composers (National Youth Brass of NZ, Scandinavian Brass & Besses o' th' Barn Bands)
Brass Aotearoa: Music for Brass Band from New Zealand01 Philip Sparke: The Land of the Long White Cloud - Aotearoa [12'10]02 Ross Harris: Bremner Aria * [5'39]03 Gareth Farr: Waipiro [9'32]04 - 07 George Hespe: The Three Musketeers [11'48]08 Dwayne Bloomfield: Behold the Narrows from the Hill [12'55]09 Gareth Farr: Tawhirimatea [8'27] David Bremner- trombone*, National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand conducted by Nigel WeeksMorrison Music Trust MMT2049 [recorded January 2003; issued 2003][digital download; flacs, cover, back and booklet scans]Recording venue: Lower Hutt Town Hall, Wellington, New ZealandRecording engineer: Keith Warren (Radio New Zealand); Producer: Murray KhouriThe playing of the National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand shows they need not fear comparison with the best of the European brass bands. If you are doubtful, do sample Gareth Farr's Waipiro (Waipiro being a Bay on the East Cape of the North Island; north of the better known Tokomaru Bay). Both […]
2021-11-15 09:22:38
From 'The Poppy' to 'Hit Her on the Bum': Ensemble Hesperi's debut disc, Full of the Highland Humours
[…] a Highland dancer [see my interview]. For their debut disc on EM Records, Full of the Highland Humours, Ensemble Hesperi turns its attention to London, to celebrate the Scottish music popular in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London - by Scottish composers who spent most of their career there, and by Italian composers inspired by traditional Scots melodies. So we have a disc which mixes music by such London-based Scottish figures as James Oswald and Robert Bremner, a Scottish aristocrat, the Earl of Kellie, Italian composers Giuseppi Sammartini, Nicola Matteis and Francesco Geminiani, along with a tune from a Henry Playford collection. The music can be a long way from what we think of as Scottish, even when tunes are quoted directly they are tidied up and regularised, made suitable for those 18th-century drawing rooms.. Whilst the musical traditions of Highland and Lowland Scotland were entirely separate, seen from London, Scotsmen […]
2021-11-15 09:22:38
From 'The Poppy' to 'Hit Her on the Bum': Ensemble Hesperi's debut disc, Full of the Highland Humours
[…] a Highland dancer [see my interview]. For their debut disc on EM Records, Full of the Highland Humours, Ensemble Hesperi turns its attention to London, to celebrate the Scottish music popular in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London - by Scottish composers who spent most of their career there, and by Italian composers inspired by traditional Scots melodies. So we have a disc which mixes music by such London-based Scottish figures as James Oswald and Robert Bremner, a Scottish aristocrat, the Earl of Kellie, Italian composers Giuseppi Sammartini, Nicola Matteis and Francesco Geminiani, along with a tune from a Henry Playford collection. The music can be a long way from what we think of as Scottish, even when tunes are quoted directly they are tidied up and regularised, made suitable for those 18th-century drawing rooms.. Whilst the musical traditions of Highland and Lowland Scotland were entirely separate, seen from London, Scotsmen […]
2021-01-19 00:30:00
Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 1 - Simon Rattle
Peter Maxwell Davies:01. - 04. Symphony No.1 [54'20]05. - 06. Points and Dances from 'Taverner'* [17'44]Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle; The Fires of London conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies* Decca 4788354 [recorded August 1978 & December 1971*; issued 1979 and 1973* on LP, first issued on CD in 2003, this digital edition 2015] [digital download; flacs, booklet and cover scans] Recording venues: Kingsway Hall and St John the Evangelist Islington*, LondonRecording engineers: Stanley Goodall and Tryggvi Tryggvason*; Producers: James Mallinson and Michael Bremner* This was one of Simon Rattle's first major recordings, made after he gave the symphony's first performance at the age of 23, pre-dating the fine Sibelius Fifth Symphony, also with the Philharmonia, and Mahler (Cooke) Tenth Symphony with the Bournemouth Symphony. It was highly celebrated at the time of first issue (when it was just Maxwell Davies' Symphony) and had to wait until 2003 for first […]
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