Now Comes Beauty: commissions from The English Music Festival

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A great deal of it is very enjoyable, and perhaps most encouraging of all is the sense that something genuinely new and fresh – rather than just superficially novel – could emerge from this kind... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Jun 2016
Catalogue No: EMRCD03738
Label: EM Records
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

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Curtis, M: A Festival Overture

Work length4:53

$1.00

$1.30

Arwel Hughes, Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra
Recording Venue: BBC Radio 3 Breakfast, Room 3015 Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom

Matthews, D: White Nights, Op. 26a

Work length10:41

$3.00

$3.85

Arwel Hughes, Rupert Marshall-Luck, Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra
Recording Venue: BBC Radio 3 Breakfast, Room 3015 Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom

Carr, P: Now Comes Beauty (Version for Orchestra)

Work length3:40

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$1.30

Arwel Hughes, Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra
Recording Venue: BBC Radio 3 Breakfast, Room 3015 Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom

Lewis, P: Norfolk Suite

Work length13:52

$4.00

$5.20

Arwel Hughes, Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra
Recording Venue: BBC Radio 3 Breakfast, Room 3015 Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom

I. Castle Rising

Track length3:04

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$1.30

II. Wymondham Abbey

Track length3:59

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$1.30

III. Ranworth Broad

Track length4:11

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IV. Norwich Market

Track length2:38

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$1.30

Pickard: Binyon Songs (For Voice & Orchestra)

Work length16:02

$6.00

$7.80

Roderick Williams, Arwel Hughes, Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra
Recording Venue: BBC Radio 3 Breakfast, Room 3015 Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom

I. Nature

Track length1:56

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$1.30

II. Sowing Seed

Track length2:46

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$1.30

III. Autumn Song

Track length1:03

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$1.30

IV. When All the World is Hidden

Track length2:15

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V. The Burning of the Leaves

Track length8:02

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$2.60

Blackford: Spirited

Work length5:58

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$1.30

Arwel Hughes, Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra

Carr, P: Suddenly It’s Evening

Work length7:45

$2.00

$2.60

Arwel Hughes, Rupert Marshall-Luck, Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra

Lane, P: Aubade Joyeuse

Work length8:38

$2.00

$2.60

Arwel Hughes, Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra

Wright, C: Legend

Work length12:02

$3.00

$3.85

Arwel Hughes, Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra

Norris, D O: Piano Concerto in C Major

Work length31:23

$8.00

$10.30

Arwel Hughes, David Owen Norris, Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra

I. Allegro

Track length8:40

$2.00

$2.60

II. Andante serioso

Track length11:56

$3.00

$3.85

III. Allegro molto

Track length10:47

$3.00

$3.85

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Presented here is a collection of works, all commissioned or premièred by the English Music Festival, of different styles, inspirations and influences, but which all demonstrate a tremendous beauty, individuality and vibrancy. Sparkling and celebratory overtures are provided by Matthew Curtis and Richard Blackford, while Paul Carr provides gorgeous lyricism with Now Comes Beauty and Suddenly It’s Evening ; and Philip Lane’s Aubade Joyeuse bubbles with energy. Both Christopher Wright’s Legend and Paul Lewis’s Norfolk Suite evoke a wonderful sense of atmosphereand David Matthews’s White Nights is full of searing beauty. David Owen Norris’s Piano Concerto is typically idiosyncratic and effervescent; while John Pickard’s Binyon song-cycle combines a terser musical language with some moments of meltingly beautiful lyricism. This disc demonstrates that English music as a genre is currently thriving, with a plethora of composers with new and exciting things to say in accessible and attractive musical languages. The English music tradition, and the legacy of which Vaughan Williams spoke – a chain of tradition passed on from Tallis through to Parry and beyond – is still vivaciously alive.

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Christmas 2016

A great deal of it is very enjoyable, and perhaps most encouraging of all is the sense that something genuinely new and fresh – rather than just superficially novel – could emerge from this kind of musical ‘back to basics’ attitude. The performances have warmth, polish and conviction, and the recordings are very good too

July 2016

Gavin Sutherland is a master when it comes to this sort of project and it shows throughout, as also does the work of Owain Arwel Hughes. Rupert Marshall-Luck is a most eloquent advocate and his way with these new pieces and indeed with the many rarities he has brought back to thriving life is both moving and admirable.

Now Comes Beauty

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