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John Hawkins: Simplicius - Music For Clarinet
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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This exciting new recording focuses on music featuring the clarinet written over a period of fifty years by UK composer John Hawkins. Beginning with the most recent (Simplicius SimpIicissimus) the list works back to early pieces, incIuding a virtuoso concerto for clarinet and string orchestra. As well as the orchestraI works, the CD incIudes chamber music with both piano and cello. John Hawkins large-scaIe works incIude a triIogy about the sea including a Sea Symphony which had BBC broadcasts by both the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Orchestra. Other BBC broadcasts have incIuded Urizen for vioIa and piano, Variations for piano and This World for choir and two trumpets (BBC Singers). Soloist Steve Dummer, clarinet, was a student of the Iate, great Jack Brymer and now gives regular concerts throughout the UK and in sessions for radio and television. He is aIso a conductor and educator, as musical director of Kidenza, and founder and musicaI director of both TaIkestra and Stane Street Sinfonietta. He is a reguIar tutor and conductor at Dartington International Summer. |
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