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John Pickard – Tenebrae

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Catalogue numberBIS-1873 CD
Release date2013-01-01
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time74:02

International Record Review: "Outstanding", May 2013; Recommendation, Expeditionaudio.com; Music Web International, May 2013: "This is a terrifically exciting follow-up to a disc released by BIS in 2008, recorded at the same venue and with the same orchestra-conductor team as here (BIS1578)".

‘A born master of the orchestra’ is how the British composer John Pickard was described when BBC Music Magazine reviewed a previous disc of his orchestral music, while Fanfare called it ‘essential listening for lovers of modern music’, finding the performances ‘absolutely thrilling, emotionally involved and seamlessly evolved’.

Given such reactions, it is not surprising that Pickard, Martyn Brabbins and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra decided to continue their rewarding collaboration, with results that can be heard on the present disc.

The three pieces included span three decades, and in his own liner notes to the disc, Pickard remarks that the programme gives an overall sense of his development as an orchestral composer: ‘from the clear outlines of the early Sea-Change, with its indebtedness to the sound-world of several Nordic composers, through the colourful exuberance of the Piano Concerto, to the darkness and turbulence of Tenebrae.’

Completed in 2009, Tenebrae takes as its starting point a fragment from Carlo Gesualdo’s Tristis est anima mea (Sad is my soul) from the composer’s settings for the Tenebrae services of Holy Week. The work is in itself a result of the earlier collaboration between Pickard and these performers; commissioned by the Norrköping orchestra which gave it its première in 2010, it is dedicated to Martyn Brabbins.

Joining the team on this disc is Fredrik Ullén, making his first recording with orchestra after a number of highly praised solo recitals. John Pickard’s piano concerto has three movements, Toccata - Passacaglia - Fuga, forming a continuous span. During the course of the thirty minute-long work, three different basic relationships between soloist and orchestra are explored: dialogue, dominance and partnership, the latter illustrated in the closing double fugue, throughout which the soloist and the orchestra work together very much as a team.
 
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  Composer: Pickard, John
  Piano Concerto (1999–2000) 30:56
01 Toccata 09:00 $ 1.89 USD
02 Passacaglia 12:05 $ 2.54 USD
03 Fuga 09:51 $ 2.07 USD
 
04 Sea-Change for orchestra (1988–89) 17:11 $ 3.61 USD
05 Tenebrae for orchestra (2008–09) 24:33 $ 5.16 USD
  Album total 74:02
ComposerPickard, John
ConductorBrabbins, Martyn
OrchestraNorrköping Symphony Orchestra
PianoUllén, Fredrik

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