IDAGIO | Peter Hope: Wind Blown – Sonatas for Wind Instruments 809730513725

Featuring

Richard Simpson
Janet Simpson
Thomas Verity
Simon Passmore
John Turner
Harvey Davies

Frank Forst
Yukiko Sano
Peter Hope

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Composer Biography

Peter Hope wrote the theme music for the BBC television news, which was used from 1969 until the 1980s.

Recording & Production

This album, 'Wind blown', was recorded at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester on April 3-4, 2016.

Composer Biography

Peter Hope, born in Stockport, England, in 1930, worked for two years with Ernest Tomlinson in the arranging department of Mills Music after studying composition at Manchester University.

Composition History

The four woodwind sonatas on this album were composed by Peter Hope between 2009 and 2015, specifically for the musicians who perform them on this recording.

Composer Biography

Peter Hope was a frequent arranger for the BBC Concert Orchestra for many years, and his arrangements of traditional tunes from the 1950s and 60s have become classics.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Since 2000, Peter Hope has focused on more extended and serious compositions, which maintain an accessible idiom partly derived from his extensive commercial writing.