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ID: MSVCD92104 (EAN: 0809730210426) | 1 CD | DDD Ausgefolgt: 2010
- LABEL:
- METIER
- Subkolektion:
- Cello
- Komponisten:
- GORTON, David
- Ensembles:
- Kreutzer String Quartet
- Andere Infos:
David Gorton is a very highly respected British composer whose music is firmly modernist - very difficult to play, but which is also very approachable and accessible. Here Neil Heyde provides a stunning performance of the Cello Sonata and a second version, given a very different interpretation in a live recital. We have the two tiny but intense Caprices for solo violin, a fine work for Piano Trio and the String Quartet Trajectories, a modern model for that genre. All are first recordings, produced and supervised by the composer.
The music of David Gorton first began to receive attention in 2001 when he was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize while still a student. The subsequent commission for the London Sinfonietta, Oblique Prayers, outlined a distinctive and unique sound-world described by one commentator as combining “an acute imagination for delicate timbral invention with a prodigious command of the unfolding of this half-hour ritual drama” (The Independent).
Gorton studied composition with Harrison Birtwistle and Simon Bainbridge. His music can be described as technically demanding for the performers, and for the listener it is complex and challenging - one commentator remarked that it is music in a constant state of restless evolution.
As a soloist and chamber musician Neil Heyde has appeared throughout Europe, and in the USA and Australia. Since the mid 90s he has been the cellist of the Kreutzer Quartet and he now heads the postgraduate programmes at the Royal Academy of Music, where his work focuses on the relationships between performance, composition and analysis. He has commissioned and premiered many solo and chamber pieces and is also dedicated to performing and recording neglected areas of the repertoire.
tracks: Sonata for Solo Cello Neil Heyde String Quartet: Trajectories Kreutzer Quartet Melting Forms Roderick Chadwick (piano), Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin), Neil Heyde (cello) Caprices nos 1 and 2 Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin) Sonata for Solo Cello (2nd, live, version) Neil Heyde
The Kreutzer Quartet includes:
Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin)
Mihailo Trandafilovski and previously Gordon MacKay (Violin)
Morgan Goff and previously Bridget Carey (Viola)
Neil Heyde (Cello)
“After hearing this beautiful CD, I am keen to discover much more of Gorton’s music... it seems to me lyrical without being soft, complex without being threatening, cool without being cold. It is intricately crafted, but it wears its intelligence lightly.” - Tim Rutherford-Johnson (Musical Pointers)
“Contemporary classical is alive and well in ... music that seems difficult to play but certainly rewards the listener for sticking with it. A pretty solid bet for the classical malcontent that wants to chart some new waters.” - Chris Spector (Mid West Record)
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