Gregson - Concertos
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10478
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 30th June 2008
Contents
Artists
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet)Nobuya Sugawa (saxophone)
Nelson Goerner (piano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Clark RundellWorks
Concerto for Piano and Wind 'Homages'Saxophone Concerto
Trumpet Concerto
Artists
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet)Nobuya Sugawa (saxophone)
Nelson Goerner (piano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Clark RundellAbout
Gregson’s life-long fascination for the concerto form began early but, having been brought up in a Salvationist family, it was inevitable that the brilliant sound of the British brass band should play an important role in the early years of his composing career. This led to a parallel universe of musical experiences. ‘On the one hand I was playing music by some fine brass band composers and on the other being absorbed in the music of Bartok, Prokofiev, Hindemith, Webern, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Tippett and others.’ This musical landscape greatly influences his compositional style to this day. ‘…my concertos use musical reference or homage, as a backbone to the work. Each uses the idea of musical tribute in a different way.’
The Concerto for Piano and Wind and the Saxophone Concerto in particular pay tribute to those composers whose concertos Gregson loved when he was a teenager. In the slow movement of the Saxophone Concerto, Gregson actually quotes the opening of the Berg Violin Concerto, ‘mainly because my own musical fabric in that movement is built on a twelve-note row with a strong reference to major and minor thirds. In my Trumpet Concerto, the slow movement uses Shostakovich’s musical cipher DSCH as the main reference point to what is an In Memoriam to the Russian master who had died not long before I started writing the work.’
The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Clark Rundell, accompanies three internationally renowned soloists - Ole Edvard Antonsen, Nelson Goerner and Nobuya Sugawa.
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