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Pickard - The Flight of Icarus, etc | BIS BISCD1578

Pickard - The Flight of Icarus, etc

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD1578

Barcode: 7318590015780

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 3rd March 2008

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Contents

Artists

Christian Lindberg (trombone)
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Martyn Brabbins

Works

Pickard, John

Channel Firing
The Flight of Icarus
The Spindle of Necessity for trombone, percussion and strings

Artists

Christian Lindberg (trombone)
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Martyn Brabbins

About

British composer John Pickard has been widely praised for his architectural sense and bold handling of an extended tonal idiom. He is best known for a series of powerful orchestral works, of which The Flight of Icarus has met with particular acclaim. After its première at the Proms, The Times critic wrote: “Pickard's score remains airborne over its 20-minute span rather more proficiently than Icarus, leading the ear and imagination with impressive resourcefulness.

All three works on this disc are built around extra-musical images, suggesting an individual sound-world for each piece, as well as a narrative structure. Greek legend provides the subject matter for The Flight of Icarus, and The Spindle of Necessity, a concerto for trombone strings and percussion. Channel Firing, a dark and intense elegy, was inspired by a poem by Thomas Hardy, written shortly before the outbreak of the Great War.

These memorable scores are performed by the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra under the distinguished conductor Martyn Brabbins, making his first recording for BIS. The capable soloist in The Spindle of Necessity is Christian Lindberg.

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