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

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Label
Nimbus
Release Date
October 6, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SAWYERS, PHILIP
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      English Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Fredrick, Woods
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 06, 2017
    • UPC
      710357635328
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NI6353
    • LABEL
      Nimbus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods

    2. II. Adagio

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods

    3. III. Intermezzo - Moderato

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods

    4. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods

    5. No. 1. A Shropshire Lad

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: April Fredrick

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods

    6. No. 2. More Poems XL

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: April Fredrick

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods

    7. No. 3. More Poems XXXVI

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: April Fredrick

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods

    8. No. 4. Break, break, break

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: April Fredrick

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods

    9. No. 5. Futility

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: April Fredrick

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods

    10. No. 6. From Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: April Fredrick

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods

    11. No. 7. From the Wisdom of Solomon

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: April Fredrick

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods

    12. No. 8. Song from The Earthly Paradise

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: April Fredrick

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods

    13. Fanfare

      Composer: Philip Sawyers

      Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Kenneth Woods


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.