Blackford: Violin Concerto - Clarinet Quintet - The Better Angels of our Nature - Goodfellow
4/7/2017, 9 Tracks, 1:07:24
Featuring
Richard Blackford
Marie Gajdošová
David Campbell
Jamie Campbell
Helena Nicholls
Meghan Cassidy
Gregor Riddell
Martyn Brabbins
Emily Pailthorpe
Daniel Pailthorpe
Julian Milford
Brno Philharmonic
Solstice String Quartet
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Composer Biography
Richard Blackford, the composer, has had his music performed and broadcast globally and has received several awards, including an Emmy for Best Title Sequence.
Composition History
'Goodfellow' was written for three friends, Daniel and Emily Pailthorpe and Julian Milford, all star players of the Conchord Ensemble.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Richard Blackford considers himself a latecomer to instrumental music, having primarily focused on choral and vocal composition for most of his career.
Composition History
The Violin Concerto by Richard Blackford was composed in just five weeks, re-working material from an incomplete violin sonata he wrote when he was eighteen.
Composition History
The work 'The Better Angels of our Nature' for oboe and strings was inspired by Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address and is dedicated to virtuoso oboist Emily Pailthorpe.
Composition History
The Clarinet Quintet by Richard Blackford was inspired by scenes from Caradog Pritchard's semi-autobiographical novel 'Full Moon', which describes a boy's childhood in a slate-quarrying area of North Wales.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Richard Blackford's musical imagination usually requires an extra-musical stimulus like words, dance, theatre, or film, finding 'pure' abstract composition a daunting challenge.
