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| Management number | 205796021 | Release Date | 2025/10/22 | List Price | $78.30 | Model Number | 205796021 | ||
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Title: Pickard: Symphonies 2 & 6; Verlaine Songs
Artist: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Label: Bis
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 7318599927213
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2024-08-30
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD
John Pickard is best known for his powerful orchestral and instrumental works, and his music has been widely praised for it's large-scale sense of architecture and bold handling of an extended tonal idiom. This recording brings together three works composed over a period of almost forty years, providing a glimpse of the composer's creative range. The Second Symphony, completed when Pickard was 23, is an extremely impressive and concentrated work. It's starting point was John Hersey's book Hiroshima, which describes how vegetation quickly reasserted it's presence amid the city's ashes.The Verlaine Songs feature six poems by the French poet Paul Verlaine. Chosen for their broad range of expression, the poems were grouped in an order that provides dramatic contrast and an overall progression of mood. The cycle was composed for the soprano Emma Tring, with her particular vocal characteristics very much in Pickard's mind.The Sixth Symphony, which completes this recording, was composed at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, and is dedicated to Robert von Bahr, founder of BIS Records. After a first movement dominated by a feeling of unease, the second offers relief from the darkness. This recording was the work's first performance.
Tracks:
1.1 Symphony No. 2
1.2 Verlaine Songs~I. Chanson d'automne
1.3 Verlaine Songs~II. Spleen
1.4 Verlaine Songs~III. Marine
1.5 Verlaine Songs~IV. Le squelette
1.6 Verlaine Songs~V. L'heure exquise
1.7 Verlaine Songs~VI. Le soleil d'or
1.8 Symphony No. 6~I.
1.9 Symphony No. 6~II.
Artist: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Label: Bis
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 7318599927213
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2024-08-30
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD
John Pickard is best known for his powerful orchestral and instrumental works, and his music has been widely praised for it's large-scale sense of architecture and bold handling of an extended tonal idiom. This recording brings together three works composed over a period of almost forty years, providing a glimpse of the composer's creative range. The Second Symphony, completed when Pickard was 23, is an extremely impressive and concentrated work. It's starting point was John Hersey's book Hiroshima, which describes how vegetation quickly reasserted it's presence amid the city's ashes.The Verlaine Songs feature six poems by the French poet Paul Verlaine. Chosen for their broad range of expression, the poems were grouped in an order that provides dramatic contrast and an overall progression of mood. The cycle was composed for the soprano Emma Tring, with her particular vocal characteristics very much in Pickard's mind.The Sixth Symphony, which completes this recording, was composed at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, and is dedicated to Robert von Bahr, founder of BIS Records. After a first movement dominated by a feeling of unease, the second offers relief from the darkness. This recording was the work's first performance.
Tracks:
1.1 Symphony No. 2
1.2 Verlaine Songs~I. Chanson d'automne
1.3 Verlaine Songs~II. Spleen
1.4 Verlaine Songs~III. Marine
1.5 Verlaine Songs~IV. Le squelette
1.6 Verlaine Songs~V. L'heure exquise
1.7 Verlaine Songs~VI. Le soleil d'or
1.8 Symphony No. 6~I.
1.9 Symphony No. 6~II.
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