A Williams - Symphony no.1, Chamber Concerto
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Label: Nimbus - Alliance
Cat No: NI6432
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 7th October 2022
Contents
Artists
English Symphony OrchestraConductor
Kenneth WoodsWorks
Chamber Concerto: Portraits of Ned kellySymphony no.1
Artists
English Symphony OrchestraConductor
Kenneth WoodsAbout
“This remarkable work is one of two by Williams to grow from his friendship with the great Australian painter, Sidney Nolan. Nolan and Williams were neighbours in the Welsh Borders region that Williams has called home for most of the last forty years. Williams, a prolific pianist, was given the invitation to use the piano at The Rodd, Nolan’s house in northwest Herefordshire and now the home of the Sidney Nolan Trust. The Chamber Concerto is a musical response to Nolan’s most famous series of paintings, which depict scenes from the wild life of Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly, an outlaw, gang leader and convicted policemurderer who rampaged across Australia in the years prior to his arrest and execution in 1880. Williams’ music almost always has a virtuosic edge to it, but the demands placed on the musicians in this work are truly extraordinary, yet it is incredibly rewarding to play. In this sense, Williams’ designation of the work as a concerto is both telling and apt is it demands that everyone in the ensemble contributes their utmost in rhythmic precision, agility, accuracy in extremes of register and lyrical storytelling.” – Kenneth Woods
In 2016 Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra launched their 21st Century Symphony Project, an ambitious multiyear effort to commission premiere and record nine new symphonies by leading composers, with the triumphant premiere of Philip Sawyers’s Third Symphony at St John’s Smith Square. In 2018, the Project continued with the premiere of David Matthews’s Ninth Symphony, selected by The Spectator as one of the Top Ten Classical Events of the year. The most recent work in the series is Matthew Taylor’s Fifth Symphony hailed by ClassicalSource as “a masterpiece” at its 2019 premiere.
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