Release Date: 04 February 2006
Label: NMC Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5023363011921
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Composer/Series: Edwin Roxburgh
Description
Roxburgh's Clarinet Concerto features soloist Linda Merrick in a work of symphonic scope and expressivity; she is accompanied by the Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.
In Saturn - a tribute to Holst, Roxburgh's predecessor at the Royal College of Music - Roxburgh explores the mythical characters of its moons and satellites in a series of orchestral showpieces which culminates in the wild abandon, and percussive onslaught, of Saturn itself; Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra is conducted by Peter Stark.
'Saturn is an epic orchestral and electronic space-scape, effortlessly blending Roxburgh's understanding of Boulez and Stockhausen with a Birtwistle-like sense of ritual. An orbiting soprano saxophone beams down ideas to an orchestral underlay dominated by clattering percussion and mind-expanding electronics; this is an extraordinarily ballsy mission undertaken by HCYO.' The Wire, 2006
Tracklisting
Zoe Martlew, Ben Goldscheider, Lucy Schaufer, Huw Watkins, Mark Simpson, Alessandro Fisher, Lana Bo
Liza Lim, JACK Quartet, Jay Campbell, Rohan Dasika
Hannah Kendall, Ensemble Modern, Anne Denholm-Blair, Halle Orchestra, Jonathan Bloxham, Jonathan Mo
Philip Mead, Simon Emmerson, Zubin Kanga, Heather Roche, Carla Rees
Martin Iddon, Quiet Music Ensemble, Jack Adler-McKean
Clare O'Connell
Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers
Martyn Brabbins, Daniel Pioro, Anna Dennis, Andrew Gourlay, Elena Schwarz
Salzburg Wind Philharmonic; Hansjorg Angerer
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir John Barbirolli
Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim; Timo Handschuh
Simon Callaghan; Hiroaki Takenouchi; Royal Northern Sinfonia; Martin Yates
Oliver Triendl; Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava; Lukasz Borowicz
Malcolm Binns; Simon Callaghan; Hiroaki Takenouchi; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Nicholas Braithw
Malcolm Binns; BBC Symphony Orchestra; BBC Scottish Orchestra; Sir Malcolm Sargent; Norman del Mar
Kolner Akademie; Michael Alexander Willens
