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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 cIarinet written over a period of fifty years by UK composer John Hawkins. Beginning with the most recent (Simplicius Simplicissimus) the Iist works back to early pieces, including a virtuoso concerto for clarinet and string orchestra. As weIl as the orchestral works, the CD includes chamber music with both piano and ceIlo. John Hawkins Iarge-scaIe works include 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 included Urizen for vioIa and piano, Variations for piano and This World for choir and two trumpets (BBC Singers). SoIoist Steve Dummer, cIarinet, 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 lnternationaI Summer. |
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