Adrian Williams: Orchestral Works

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Performances and recording are as fine as we have come to expect from Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra. Both pieces find the players in excellent form, and the 11 players of the... — Fanfare, Mar/Apr 2023 More…

Release Date: 7th Oct 2022
Catalogue No: NI6432
Label: Nimbus
Length: 70 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Contemporary Music

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Williams, Adrian: Symphony No. 1

Work length48:22

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English Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Woods

I. Maestoso - Stridente

Track length13:55

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II. Scherzando

Track length5:20

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III. Lento

Track length11:18

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IV. Energico 0 Dolente

Track length17:49

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Williams, Adrian: Chamber Concerto: Portraits of Ned Kelly

Work length22:09

Album only

English Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Woods

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"Nimbus Alliance is releasing this World Premiere recording of Adrian Williams’ work performed by the English Symphony Orchestra with Kenneth Woods as conductor. This World Premiere Recording features Symphony No. 1, as well as an enticing work Chamber Concerto: Portraits of Ned Kelly. “This remarkable work is one of two by Williams to grow from his friendship with the great Australian painter, Sidney Nolan. Nolan and Williams were neighbours in the Welsh Borders region that Williams has called home for most of the last forty years. Williams, a prolific pianist, was given the invitation to use the piano at The Rodd, Nolan’s house in northwest Herefordshire and now the home of the Sidney Nolan Trust. The Chamber Concerto is a musical response to Nolan’s most famous series of paintings, which depict scenes from the wild life of Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly, an outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer who rampaged across Australia in the years prior to his arrest and execution in 1880. Williams’ music almost always has a virtuosic edge to it, but the demands placed on the musicians in this work are truly extraordinary, yet it is incredibly rewarding to play. In this sense, Williams’ designation of the work as a concerto is both telling and apt is it demands that everyone in the ensemble contributes their utmost in rhythmic precision, agility, accuracy in extremes of register and lyrical storytelling.” Kenneth Woods"

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Mar/Apr 2023

Performances and recording are as fine as we have come to expect from Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra. Both pieces find the players in excellent form, and the 11 players of the Chamber Concerto deserve particular praise for the lyrical virtuosity they bring to this highly demanding music.

December 2022

The performances of both modern but attractive works are scintillating, in sound to match.

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