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Komponist: ROXBURGH, Edwin ((b.1937)) |
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ID: CC2003
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Oboe
The CD booklet contains (in English, French and German) a description of each piece, a biography and photo of each composer, and the libretto of Fox Woman.
Xas-Orion was conceived by Paul Goodey and Michael Oliva as a duo for oboe and electronics organised in 33 triggered events. Both parts are organised around the note 'B' which forms a core, rather than a tonal centre. The distinction between the the two sound worlds of oboe and electronics is deliberately blurred.
New Ground (by David Sutton-Anderson) is a set of linked variations on Purcell's keyboard piece 'A New Ground' heard at the outset.
Ostrich on the Plain (by Graham Fitkin) was written in 1985. There were two starting points: first, the manipulation of speed using metric modulation, and second, the sheer effort in playing the oboe.
At the Still Point of the Turning World... (by Edwin Roxburgh) has the sound of the oboe fed through a system of six delays, ranging from 4.2 to 60 seconds, plus filtering and modulation. The whole system is controlled by a graphic score.
Into the Light (by Michael Oliva) is a piece in the Romantic tradition of the tone poem. It takes the form of a journey from death (cor anglais) into a supposed afterlife (oboe) in which the piano plays the role of a sort of 'pulse giver'.
Diptych (Abstractions IV) by Timothy Salter has two movements, the first marked 'with feverish energy' and the second 'reflective yet with intensity; restless, agitated'. The mood at the end of the first movement is carried over into the cor anglais soliloquy that opens the second.
Fox Woman(music by Cecilia McDowall, words by Christie Dickason) uses the oboe in a way that exploits not only its elegance and subtlety, but also its potential for brutality. This range suggests the Japanes myths of fox spirits, dangerous shape-shifters which often took the form of beautiful women. |
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ID: CC2019
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Piano
The 24-page full colour CD booklet has a 6,000 word programme note in English
with full details of each track, and extensive information about the composer and about his use of multiphonics.
There are biographies of all the players and many photographs.
Introduction by Jeremy Polmear:
This CD is a collection of music by a single composer, mostly for a single combination of instruments (oboe and piano), yet the sheer variety of the music is immediately apparent. Most obviously perhaps, is the the use of multiphonics on the oboe, which are central to Shadow Play, are used extensively in most of the other pieces, but not at all in Aulodie or Cantilena. The harmonic and rhythmic complexity of the pieces also varies - from the virtuosic Antares to the touching simplicity of Cantilena. Furthermore, these pieces cover a period of nearly 40 years, yet there is no obvious trend of an evolving style during this period. What kind of composer is Edwin Roxburgh, really? What labels can we apply?
Roxburgh himself hates labels. For example, he says "I was never a serial composer. Serial composition is in any case just one way of expressing something; to add a label to it isn't really the point. And the 'neo-' label - why spend the time regenerating characteristics of the past? By all means borrow from the past, and also from the musical clichés which surround us in the present - embrace these things, but transform them into something of your own. As a composer, you need to add your own brick to the wall of the evolution of music."
A composer's creative process is notoriously hard to define, but Roxburgh puts it thus: "I start with the idea for a piece, and then I look for the vocabulary with which to express that idea. It's different for every composition; I'm looking at modes of harmony, of rhythm, of modulation that are going to be able to express that idea. And at physics, too; the physics of the oboe, and its chords, these can be part of the vocabulary, an exciting area to explore."
It is this willingness to define his artistic vocabulary afresh for the needs of each composition that gives authenticity to Edwin Roxburgh’s music, and perhaps explains the remark made by his teacher Nadia Boulanger that Edwin was 'the new Stravinsky'. It is also interesting to note that Roxburgh describes Schoenberg and Fauré as two of his musical 'grandparents'. Boulanger was a pupil of Fauré and another teacher was Luigi Dallapiccola, a pupil of Schoenberg.
We can also see evidence in this CD of the source of some of Edwin Roxburgh's ideas. People feature prominently, especially oboists. Elegy was written in memory of Janet Craxton (who can be heard on Oboe Classics CC2011). Its use of multiphonics would perhaps not have enthused its dedicatee ("I'm not Holliger", she told one composer); yet the quiet, warm, unselfish spirit of Janet the player and Janet the person pervades the piece.
Léon Goossens (available on Oboe Classics CC2005) is a source for two pieces here: Antares, written for Nicholas Daniel to play for his 90th birthday. And Aulodie, which was written ten years earlier for Goossens himself to perform. In this latter piece, the composer pays tribute to a player in an extraordinary way. Not only is the musical vocabulary one with which Goossens would have been familiar, but Roxburgh even includes the kinds of phrases and moods at which Goossens excelled.
External events are another impulse for Roxburgh. As he says, "sometimes I'm touched by an event. Composers can't affect politicians, but we can make a point for history. It can be a simple expression, as long as it's profound." Listening to the two tracks which comment on war, Cantilena and Silent Strings, we can hear much more than simple anger; perhaps this is because in each of these pieces Edwin Roxburgh has combined his aversion for an act with his respect for particular individuals - the composer Adrian Cruft; and the performers Paul Goodey and Sally Mays. |
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ID: MSV28508
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Oboe
The first recordings of exquisite works for oboe with piano or chamber ensemble, performed by leading lights of the British contemporary music scene. Challenging but extremely approachable, Roxburgh's music is well worth getting to know.
tracks: Study 1 - solo oboe Aulodie - oboe and piano Images - oboe and piano Eclissi - oboe, violin, viola, cello Antares - oboe and piano Elegy - oboe and chamber ensemble Cantilena - oboe and piano |
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ID: NMCD057
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: InstrumentalSubkolektion: Piano
50 short pieces for piano by 30 of Britain's leading composers |
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ID: NMCD069
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Orchestral WorksSubkolektion: Orchester
Both Anthony Gilbert's brilliant woodwind writing and his long association with the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester are showcased on this disc, featuring performances by the RNCM's acclaimed New Ensemble and Wind Orchestra, and concluding with the brilliant and playful tribute to Stravinsky, Igorochki. |
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ID: NMCD119
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Clarinet
Roxburgh's Clarinet Concerto features soloist Linda Merrick in a work of symphonic scope and expressivity; she is acompanied by the Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.
In Saturn - a tribute to Holst, Roxburgh's predecessor at the Royal College of Music - Roxburgh explores the mythical characters of its moons and satellites in a series of orchestral showpieces which culminates in the wild abandon, and percussive onslaught, of Saturn itself; Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra is conducted by Peter Stark. |
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ID: NMCD132
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: InstrumentalSubkolektion: Piano
This release brings together Roxburgh's complete works for piano solo and duo and is performed by a cast of outstanding pianists, including those who commissioned or premiered the works: together they bring their separate talents to this diverse body of work, a fitting tribute to his long career as a composer and teacher.
1-3 -Waka Hasegawa & Joseph Tong, for piano duo
4-7 - Thalia Myers, for young pianists
8 -13 - Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
14 - 16 - Peter O'Hagan, piano
17-18 - Sally Mays, for young pianists
19-20 - Karl Lutchmayer, piano
21 - George King, piano
22-23 - James Young, piano |
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ID: NMCD161
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Viola
Edwin Roxburgh, Lawrence Casserly, Dimitri Murrath - Edwin Roxburgh: Solos and Duos
Edwin Roxburgh’s Solos and Duos are inspired by the virtuosic skill of the performers featured on this recording. They are joined by the composer himself with Lawrence Casserley in 'At the Still Point of the Turning World...'. |
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