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Sawyers: Symphony No. 3, Songs of Loss and Regret & Fanfare / Woods, English Symphony Orchestra

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Details

Composer
SAWYERS, PHILIP
Artist
Fredrick, Woods
Format
CD
Label
Nimbus
Released
Oct 06, 2017
Catalog #
NI6353
UPC
710357635328

About

This programme reveals Philip Sawyers as a composer at the height of his powers whose music ranges across a relatively wide spectrum of harmonic intensity, from the very direct and straightforward tonal language of the Fanfare to the twelve-tone pyrotechnics of the Third Symphony. However, regardless of whether we look to the modal harmonies of Songs of Loss and Regret or the multi-layered serial counterpoint of the finale of the Third Symphony, we still find a unifying sense of a strong and individual artistic personality. In his symphonic works, we hear an uncommonly accomplished resultion of some of the aesthetic tensions which have gripped so much music to grow out of the Central European tradition in the generations after Mahler and Schoenberg. Sawyers works with a spectrum of musical materials ranging from diatonic and modal material through to twelve-tone themes with a striking mixture of rigor and imaginative flexibility.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 09:41
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    09:41
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  2. 2 II. Adagio 13:15
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    13:15
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  3. 3 III. Intermezzo - Moderato 05:14
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Intermezzo - Moderato
    Duration
    05:14
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  4. 4 IV. Allegro 10:21
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    10:21
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  5. 5 No. 1. A Shropshire Lad 03:09
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 1. A Shropshire Lad
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  6. 6 No. 2. More Poems XL 03:11
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 2. More Poems XL
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  7. 7 No. 3. More Poems XXXVI 02:29
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 3. More Poems XXXVI
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  8. 8 No. 4. Break, break, break 01:54
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 4. Break, break, break
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  9. 9 No. 5. Futility 03:15
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 5. Futility
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  10. 10 No. 6. From Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 01:45
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 6. From Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  11. 11 No. 7. From the Wisdom of Solomon 05:31
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 7. From the Wisdom of Solomon
    Duration
    05:31
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  12. 12 No. 8. Song from The Earthly Paradise 02:52
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 8. Song from The Earthly Paradise
    Duration
    02:52
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  13. 13 Fanfare 03:47
    Track
    13
    Title
    Fanfare
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Philip Sawyers
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods