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Gunning: Symphonies Nos. 2, 10 & 12
Signum Classics

Gunning: Symphonies Nos. 2, 10 & 12

$19.99

Details

Composer
GUNNING, CHRISTOPHER
Artist
Woods
Format
CD
Label
Signum Classics
Released
Jan 03, 2020
Catalog #
SIGCD593
UPC
635212059326

About

Christopher Gunning has composed twelve symphonies, as well as concertos for the piano, violin, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, and guitar; many of these have now been recorded. He has also composed many scores for films and television dramas, including Agatha Christie's 'Poirot', La Vie en Rose, Middlemarch, Cold Lazarus, Rebecca, Under Suspicion, Firelight, The Big Battalions, Wild Africa, When the Whales Came and Porterhouse Blue. With a career spanning 50 years, he has won 4 BAFTA and 3 Ivor Novello Awards, and BASCA's prestigious Gold Badge Award. Christopher studied composition with Edmund Rubbra and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After a hugely successful career writing for the big and small screen he is now focused on his classical work and releases. Gunning's second symphony has been composed of a period of years, starting in 2003. Gunning struggled to finish the composition at first, but when the opportunity arose to record the symphony with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, he uncovered the symphony in early 2018. He then worked towards the recording session, tightening the structure and rationalized the orchestration, preparing the composition for the final session, which can be heard on this record. Symphonies 10 and 12 were much simpler for Gunning. No. 10 was composed in a very natural way; the starting material of the symphony allowed Gunning to move from one section to the next with ease. Symphony 12 is the most tonal of the three symphonies. It begins with an uncertain feel, before rising to a climax, and then down to a feeling of mystery. The second movement was inspired for a friends funeral, beginning with a bell, calling people up to the chapel. It then takes influences from English music and countryside (both of which the friend enjoyed), before reverting back to the bell idea again at the end of the funeral.

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 Symphony No. 10 21:44
    Track
    1
    Title
    Symphony No. 10
    Duration
    21:44
    Composer
    Christopher Gunning
    Ensemble
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  2. 2 I. — 11:57
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. —
    Duration
    11:57
    Composer
    Christopher Gunning
    Ensemble
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  3. 3 II. — 09:35
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. —
    Duration
    09:35
    Composer
    Christopher Gunning
    Ensemble
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  4. 4 III. — 07:34
    Track
    4
    Title
    III. —
    Duration
    07:34
    Composer
    Christopher Gunning
    Ensemble
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  5. 5 I. — 13:47
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. —
    Duration
    13:47
    Composer
    Christopher Gunning
    Ensemble
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  6. 6 II. — 13:28
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. —
    Duration
    13:28
    Composer
    Christopher Gunning
    Ensemble
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods