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Goodall - The Seasons: Suite for Strings & Cello | EMI 6886262

Goodall - The Seasons: Suite for Strings & Cello

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Label: EMI

Cat No: 6886262

Barcode: 5099968862626

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 17th May 2010

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Contents

Artists

Bozidar Vukotic (cello)
Tippett Quartet
Marianna Szymanowksa

Conductor

Howard Goodall

Artists

Bozidar Vukotic (cello)
Tippett Quartet
Marianna Szymanowksa

Conductor

Howard Goodall

About

Howard Goodall’s original soundtrack to the four-part natural history series on ITV, Britain through the Seasons.

Describing the background to his new composition, Goodall says: “Several composers over the centuries have responded musically to the idea of the changing seasons, most notably Vivaldi, Haydn, Spohr, Verdi, Glazunov and Tchaikovsky, but I believe I am the first composer to create my Seasons suite over the period of a year in the respective seasons themselves. I would like to take credit for this approach, but in all honesty the season-by-season time scale was dictated by the filming schedule of the ITV series Britain through the Seasons, for which the suite provides a soundtrack.

Composing Autumn in the Autumn and Spring in the Spring turned out to be more stimulating than I had anticipated,” continues Goodall, “especially as the 12 months from September 2008 to August 2009 have been unusually rich in seasonal difference in the British Isles. … As it has turned out, the resulting suite is all but a cello concerto, since I decided right at the start that a keening and curling, dipping and diving solo cello set against the string ensemble would give me great expressive scope, painting the woody, musty hues of November and the chilly breezes of January with as much ease as it does the languorous warmth and colour of June or July.

Multi-award-winning British composer Howard Goodall is a versatile radio and television presenter and music educator who writes music that people love to hear and sing. He has composed themes and incidental music for such popular television series as Mr Bean, Blackadder, The Vicar of Dibley, Red Dwarf, The Catherine Tate Show and Q.I. He has also written and presented six award-winning television series on musical history for Channel 4.

Track Listing:
1. Autumn - Russet fall
2. Autumn - Charcoal burning
3. Autumn - Cider harvest
4. Autumn - Poppies
5. Winter - Sepia landscape
6. Winter - Frozen light
7. Winter - Storm warnings
8. Winter - Solstice night
9. Winter - Snow carpet
10. Spring - Ripening seed
11. Spring - Emerald dawn
12. Spring - Migrants' return
13. Spring - Rebirth
14. Summer - Cornflower sky
15. Summer - Racing green
16. Summer - End of the pier
17. Summer - Dippers

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