Release Date: 01 July 2018
Label: Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113444523
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Composer/Series: David Hackbridge Johnson
Description
The orchestral music of the English composer David Hackbridge Johnson (b. 1963) is one of the most important discoveries to have been made by Toccata Classics. This second volume brings two mighty symphonies: the dark and tragic No. 10 (2013), cast in a single monumental span, and the three-movement No. 13 (2017), a fierce and fiery affirmation of life. They are complemented here by an orchestral ‘motet' which passes plainchant in kaleidoscopic review. Writing in Gramophone, Guy Rickards said of Hackbridge Johnson's Ninth Symphony: ‘what is so astonishing is not his ambition in attempting such large, big boned structures […] but that he possesses the compositional technique to achieve them so completely. [...] This is a profound, complex and visionary utterance'.
Various Artists
Tamas Fejes; Balazs Renczes; Christopher Guild
Nora Luse
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra; Imants Resnis
Duo Praxedis
Choir of Girton College; Cambridge; The Western Wyndes; Felix Elliott; Emily Nott; Gabriel Kennedy;
Chester Concordia Brass Ensemble; Robert Marsh; Philip Rushforth; Richard Lambert
Barcelona Clarinet Players; North Texas Percussion Quartet; Lauren Shuyler; Albert Guinovart; North
