Release Date: 01 July 2018
Label: Willowhayne Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 643824049048
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Matthew Gee's Amazing Sliding Circus
Description
Whilst Matthew Gee's Paradiso e inferno sought to challenge the trombone's buffoonish stereotype, Matthew Gee's Amazing Sliding Circus seeks to embrace it. The trombone's ability to produce raucous glissandos has naturally drawn composers to focus on the instrument's comic potential - its undeniable clownishness. Of course, those with a deeper understanding of the instrument, such as the composers and arrangers represented on this disc, also exploit the trombone's vast array of colours, and its capacity for nuance and beauty. The tension between beauty and profundity on the one hand, and comedy and clownishness on the other mimics an ambivalence which exists in the art of clowning itself: the 'tragic clown', smiling on the outside whilst crying within. This disc embraces those contrasts embodied in the clown identity through a broad range of repertoire - pieces by established masters as well as brand new commissions - brought together under the cover of the Big Top.
VILNIUS MUNICIPAL CHOIR JM
Verdi
VARIOUS ARTISTS
VARIOUS ARTISTS
TSONEVA/PATRICK
TBILISI SO/DJANSUG KAKHIDZE
SERGHEI LUNCHEVICI SO
Neil Smith
