Stephen Gardner: Hallelujah - Never... Never... Never… - RTÉ Lyric: CD141 - CD

Disciplined and responsive playing by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra and succinct notes by the composer...an impressive disc that will hopefully secure Gardner's music the attention it deserves. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2013 More…

Release Date: 13th May 2013
Catalogue No: CD141
Label: RTÉ Lyric
Series: Composers of Ireland
Length: 58 minutes

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Gardner, Stephen: Never..Never..Never…

Work length19:39

Stephen Gardner
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Gerhard Markson

Gardner, Stephen: Lament

Work length16:57

Stephen Gardner
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Gavin Maloney

Gardner, Stephen: Hallelujah

Work length21:50

Stephen Gardner
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Gerhard Markson

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Volume 7 of the Composers of Ireland series, funded by RTE and The Arts Council. This series is key to promoting the work of Irish composers.

The work Never…Never…Never is Gardner’s musical interpretation of an imaginary painting by Frances Bacon of Ian Paisley and has been described as …” a colossal work whose staggering relentless rhetoric still packs a fearsome punch” – The Irish Times. The title Never…Never… Never comes from a speech which Ian Paisley made against the Anglo-Irish agreement of 1985. The cover image of this album is Simon Norfolk’s photograph The Ministry of Planning, Baghdad and reflects the CD’s title track which Gardner composed in response to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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August 2013

Disciplined and responsive playing by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra and succinct notes by the composer...an impressive disc that will hopefully secure Gardner's music the attention it deserves.

12th February 2014

Gardner is a most distinguished composer who has things to say and who knows how to say them best...Some, however, might find his music a bit single-minded in its relentless intensity...These superb performances and recordings are simply first rank and serve the music in the best possible way.

Gardner could be said to have done for Paisley what the second movement of Shostakovich’s Tenth did for Stalin. This work has a powerful emotional charge

Stephen Gardner: Hallelujah - Never... Never... Never…

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