SAWYERS Symphony No 3. Songs of Loss and Regret
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Composer or Director: Philip Sawyers
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Nimbus Alliance
Magazine Review Date: 10/2017
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 67
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: NI6353
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Symphony No 3 |
Philip Sawyers, Composer
English Symphony Orchestra Kenneth Woods, Conductor Philip Sawyers, Composer |
Songs of Loss and Regret |
Philip Sawyers, Composer
April Fredrick, Soprano English Symphony Orchestra Kenneth Woods, Conductor Philip Sawyers, Composer |
Fanfare |
Philip Sawyers, Composer
English String Orchestra Kenneth Woods, Conductor Philip Sawyers, Composer |
Author: Guy Rickards
The eight Songs of Loss and Regret (2013), commemorating the centenary of the First World War and the victims of its carnage, are movingly sung by April Fredrick (fresh from her triumph as Joubert’s Jane Eyre), and just as movingly accompanied by the ESO strings. The fifth song, ‘Futility’, serves to mark Sawyers’s stature as a composer: the same Owen sonnet as memorably set by Britten in the War Requiem, I aver that Sawyers’s is the profounder of the two. Finally comes the meaty Fanfare (2016) – really a motet for orchestral brass. Great music, great performances and great sound from Nimbus, engineered by Simon Fox-Gál.
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