Maxwell Davies - An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
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Label: Linn
Cat No: CKD534
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 23rd September 2016
Contents
Works
An Orkney Wedding, with SunriseEbb of Winter (concert overture)
Farewell to Stromness
Hill Runes for guitar solo
Last Door of Light for chamber orchestra
Artists
Sean Shibe (guitar)Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Ben GernonWorks
An Orkney Wedding, with SunriseEbb of Winter (concert overture)
Farewell to Stromness
Hill Runes for guitar solo
Last Door of Light for chamber orchestra
Artists
Sean Shibe (guitar)Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Ben GernonAbout
Maxwell Davies was one of the UK's foremost composers; he made a significant contribution to music with his prolific and wide-ranging output, which was celebrated with a 2014 BBC Prom devoted entirely to his works, and conducted by Ben Gernon.
An Orkney Wedding brilliantly portrays the beauty of the rising sun after a boozy celebration, using bagpipes to close in a blaze of light. Maxwell Davies composed the concert overture Ebb of Winter in 2014 to mark the SCO’s 40th birthday. The hauntingly beautiful piece depicts a wintry landscape with the optimism of the coming spring.
The two pieces for solo guitar each demonstrate the emotional frankness of Maxwell Davies’s music, from the menacing flashes of Hill Runes to the unaffected tenderness of Farewell to Stromness; young guitarist Sean Shibe is the soloist.
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is a world-renowned orchestra; its extensive discography exceeds 150 recordings. The SCO has released five recordings with Robin Ticciati including symphonies by Schumann and Haydn and two multi-award-winning albums of Mozart with Conductor Laureate, Sir Charles Mackerras. The SCO performs throughout Scotland and the UK and appears regularly at the Edinburgh International Festival and the BBC Proms.
British conductor Ben Gernon won the internationally acclaimed Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award in 2013. Gernon made his BBC Proms debut in the 2014 season conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in music by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Sean Shibe is the first guitarist to be admitted to the prestigious BBC New Generation Artists Scheme and the only solo guitarist to have received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. A 2015 YCAT artist, Shibe’s other awards include the Royal Overseas League First Prize and Gold Medal (2011), Ivor Mairants Guitar Award (2009) and D’Addarrio endorsement.
‘… a substantial, introspective and hauntingly beautiful piece, a depiction of the first stirrings of spring in Orkney.’ - The Guardian
‘This music was fun, the playing of the musicians superb, and it left the audience in an excited and bedazzled celebratory mood.’ - BachTrack
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