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Disc Details
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| Title: |
Homages for Wind |
| Ensemble: |
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra |
| Label Name: |
Chandos |
| Catalogue Number: |
CHAN 10409 |
| Recording Year: |
2006 |
| Release Date: |
01 April 2007 |
| Conductor: |
Clark Rundell |
Contents
Reviews
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Malcolm Arnold’s Water Music was commissioned by the National Trust for the reopening of the Stratford Canal in 1964 and first performed, as the booklet notes tell us, with the musicians on ‘a barge moored at the junction of the canal and the River Avon’. The piece was all but forgotten for twenty years, until Clark Rundell, the conductor here, revived the work with RNCM forces in 1984. It’s good to have this characteristic occasional piece getting an outing: there’s no mistaking the composer of any of its three movements, and the central Andantino is a delicious piece very much in the style of the English Dances.
John McCabe completed his Canyons in 1991 (McCabe’s stimulus was the same landscape that had inspired Messiaen twenty years earlier). A single movement, falling into four sections, this is a piece which makes an immediate impression and uses the ensemble in an inventive way (some of the quiet writing is particularly atmospheric).
Nigel Simeone, International Record Review, 01 June 2007
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