Richard Ayres - NONcertos and Others
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Label: NMC Recordings
Cat No: NMCD162
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 8th March 2010
Contents
Works
AyresNo.37b for Orchestra
Ayres
No.36: NONcerto for Horn
Ayres
No.31: NONcerto for Trumpet
Artists
Wim Timmermans (horn)Marco Blaauw (trumpet)
Asko Ensemble
Musikfabrik
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Roland KluttigWorks
AyresNo.37b for Orchestra
Ayres
No.36: NONcerto for Horn
Ayres
No.31: NONcerto for Trumpet
Artists
Wim Timmermans (horn)Marco Blaauw (trumpet)
Asko Ensemble
Musikfabrik
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Roland KluttigAbout
When asked what inspires his writing he replied ‘... consonance, dissonance, melody, texture, elephants, clouds, snowballs, anything, from any time and whenever it is needed – bound only by the borders of my limited imagination’!
Ayres has won many awards, including the International Gaudeamus Prize for composition in 1994, during the Gaudeamus Music week, and the Vermeulen Prize in 2003, the highest award for composition in the Netherlands.
This disc features two of Richard Ayres’ ongoing series of ‘NONcerti’ – a form he has invented which, he explains, is both an ‘un-concerto’ and an ‘uncertain concerto’. Rather than the traditional virtuoso soloist ‘battling’ with an orchestra, he explores ideas of collaboration, failure, imperfection and mortality, but expressed in a riot of melody, quotations and invented sounds.
His works often tell or illustrate a story, as the track-titles show: in No.36, the solo horn player runs up and down ramps as part of its Alpine scenario, while No.37b, although not a NONcerto by name, draws on the same narrative ideas. Based in Ayres’s Cornish-Swiss fantasy world, the later stages of the first movement sees the two percussionists try some carpentry, one with a saw, the other with a hammer, as if they are trying to nail the piece together.
Contents:
No.37b for Orchestra
1. I Alfred Wallis observes Saint Joseph at work and at leisure
2. II Sjonnie Kurzak (a broken soul) ascends
3. III but when Gippy Dixon opened his eyes, the procession was still continuing ...
4. IV Exit
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra / Roland Kluttig
No.36: NONcerto for Horn
5. Valentine Tregashian dreams... of the Swiss Girl
6. Valentine Tregashian dreams... of Jan Snaegl and the Pearly Gates
7. -bsAnna Filipiova goes on a journey...
Wim Timmermans (horn)
ASKO Ensemble / Roland Kluttig
No.31: NONcerto for Trumpet
8. Burlesque (with long scale)
9. Elegy for Alfred Schnittke
10. Rhapsody
Marco Blaauw (trumpet)
musikFabrik / Roland Kluttig
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