Compendium Recordings: New release - Études in Black & White

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This is a section of pieces from Multiple Field Sketches, an ongoing series of works for orchestra begun in 2010 and now spans over three books. Each is a snapshot of English rural life and is therefore pastoral in nature, but each is also a snapshot in time and intended to capture rural life in all its modernity. So, in its pages we find references to tractors and other farm machinery and village life, but all rooted in the timeless countryside.

Garry Judd is a composer who works in film, TV, radio and other media as well as concert music which has been premiered at the Wigmore Hall and featured on BBC Radio 3 and ClassicFM. His music has been played by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Courtney Pine, Leslie Howard, Finn Peters, Guy Pratt, John Etheridge and The London Community Gospel Choir to name but a few. He has written for over 150 film, television, radio and other media productions and is broadcast regularly throughout the world and is also available on iTunes.

From Multiple Field Sketches
1. End of Summer Daze
2. Scatterbird
3. Elegies (and Energies)
4. The Field/Haze Effect
5. Power Harrow

Études in Black and White op. 47, is a collection of twenty-five solo piano works composed and played by Leslie Howard.

A citizen of both Britain and Australia, Dr. Howard has accomplished a feat unequalled by any solo artist in recording history – his 99-CD survey for Hyperion of the complete piano music of Franz Liszt, including all 17 works for piano and orchestra. Accomplished within 14 years, it encompasses more than 300 world premières, with many works prepared from Liszt’s unpublished manuscripts and works unheard since Liszt’s lifetime. This critically acclaimed project merited Leslie Howard’s entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, six Grands Prix du Disque, the Medal of St Stephen, the Pro Cultura Hungarica award and a mounted bronze cast of Liszt’s hand presented by the Hungarian President. During the Liszt bicentenary year – 2011, Leslie Howard travelled the world with seven different all-Liszt recital programmes, maintaining at the same time a broad repertoire of concertos and chamber-music, and a quantity of solo music by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Rakhmaninov and Rubinstein.

Études in Black & White
1. Primrose Hill Promenade, 2. Stoic Melancholy, 3. The Breeze of Song, 4. The Teddy Bears Up West, 5. Heartsease, 6. Wistful Toccata, 7. Froth and Bubble, 8. Inconsolate, 9. Fluorescent Socks, 10. Iron Bells, 11. Motoring, 12. Lamentation, 13. An Edwardian Love Letter, 14. Determination, 15. Home Chimes, 16. On the Footplate, 17. Flying Homeward, 18. A Fallen Soldier, 19. Indolent Contentment, 20. Sweet Cajolery, 21. Meadowsweet, 22. Defiant Obstinacy, 23. Languid Tune Hunting, 24. In a Passion, 25. Sentimental Waltz.

The Green Man is an orchestral suite inspired by a visit to Highworth in Wiltshire to see the Jack-in-the-Green Mayday celebrations. This is an ancient tradition where Jack (wearing a frame woven with branches and looking rather like an animated Christmas tree) parades around the town square with his cohorts (Sap-Engro, Copperface and others). The Green Man suite is joined on this album by a solo piano arrangement of one of the orchestral series, Multiple Field Sketches, Elegies (and Energies). A large orchestral version of this will be released in the Summer of 2016.

Garry Judd is a composer who works in film, TV, radio and other media as well as concert music which has been premiered at the Wigmore Hall and featured on BBC Radio 3 and ClassicFM. His music has been played by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Courtney Pine, Leslie Howard, Finn Peters, Guy Pratt, John Etheridge and The London Community Gospel Choir to name but a few. He has written for over 150 film, television, radio and other media productions and is broadcast regularly throughout the world and is also available on iTunes.

The Green Man
1. Mayday Sunrise
2. Sap-Engro
3. Lord and Lady of the May
4. Copperface
5. Maid Marion
6. Beating the Bounds (Highworth 2015)
7. Highworth Jack-in-the-Green

Multiple Field Sketches
8. Elegies (and Energies) arranged for solo piano

Leslie Howard performs a selection of early works by Mozart, Minuet in Eb WoO82 and Bagatelle in C WoO56 by Beethoven as well as selections from Album for the Young and Lyric pieces by Robert Schumann and Edvard Grieg respectively.

We are thrilled that our first release is a recording by renowned concert pianist, Leslie Howard. A citizen of both Britain and Australia, Leslie Howard has accomplished a feat unequalled by any solo artist in recording history – his 99-CD survey for Hyperion of the complete piano music of Franz Liszt, including all 17 works for piano and orchestra. Accomplished within 14 years, it encompasses more than 300 world premières, with many works prepared from Liszt’s unpublished manuscripts and works unheard since Liszt’s lifetime. This critically acclaimed project merited Leslie Howard’s entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, six Grands Prix du Disque, the Medal of St Stephen, the Pro Cultura Hungarica award and a mounted bronze cast of Liszt’s hand presented by the Hungarian President. During the Liszt bicentenary year – 2011, Leslie Howard travelled the world with seven different all-Liszt recital programmes, maintaining at the same time a broad repertoire of concertos and chamber-music, and a quantity of solo music by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Rakhmaninov and Rubinstein.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1. Minuet in G K1
2. Minuet in F K2
3. Allegro in B flat K3
4. Minuet in F K4
5. Minuet in F K5
6. Minuet in D K355

Ludwig van Beethoven
7. Minuet in E flat WoO8
8. Bagatelle in C WoO56

Robert Schumann
Album for the Young Op.68
9. 1. Melody
10. 2. Soldiers' March
11. 8. The Wild Horseman
12.10. The Merry Peasant, coming home from work
13. 11. Siciliana
14. 12. Knight Rupert

Edvard Grieg
Lyric Pieces Book V Op. 54
15. 1. Shepherd's Boy
16. 2. Norwegian March
17. 4. Notturno
18. 3. March of the Dwarfs
Lyric Pieces Book VIII Op. 68
19. 6. Wedding day at Troldhaugen

Thursday, 12 May 2016

New release - Études in Black & White