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Trajectories: Music of David Gorton

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Label: Metier

Cat No: MSVCD92104

Barcode: 0809730210426

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 22nd February 2010

Works

Gorton, David

Caprice no.1 (for solo violin)
Caprice no.2 (for solo violin)
Cello Sonata (alternative version)
Cello Sonata
Melting Forms (Piano Trio)
String Quartet: Trajectories

Artists

Neil Heyde (violin)
Roderick Chadwick (violin)
Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin)
Kreutzer Quartet

Works

Gorton, David

Caprice no.1 (for solo violin)
Caprice no.2 (for solo violin)
Cello Sonata (alternative version)
Cello Sonata
Melting Forms (Piano Trio)
String Quartet: Trajectories

Artists

Neil Heyde (violin)
Roderick Chadwick (violin)
Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin)
Kreutzer Quartet

About

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. He 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.

Peter Sheppard Skærved is the dedicatee of well over 200 works for solo violin. Peter’s discography is extensive, ranging from cycles of sonatas by Beethoven and Telemann, the complete quartets of David Matthews, Michael Tippett, and cycles of concerti from Haydn to Henze. He has won awards from the BBC Music Magazine, been nominated for a Gramophone Award and was nominated for a Grammy for a concerto recording in 2007.

Described by the Sunday Times as “possessor of devastating musicality and technique”, pianist Roderick Chadwick combines his wide-ranging activity on the concert platform with diverse teaching and research interests. He has performed at many of Britain’s most prominent venues, including the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, Wigmore Hall and Aldeburgh Festival, and made his London Southbank debut playing the Tippett Piano Concerto at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

The Kreutzer Quartet has forged an enviable reputation as one of Europe’s most dynamic and innovative string quartets. They are the dedicatees of numerous works, and over many years forged creative partnerships with composers including Sir Michael Tippett, David Matthews, Michael Finnissy, Judith Weir and Haflidi Hallgrimsson. As recording artists they have won critical acclaim for their discs on the Naxos, Metier and Chandos labels.