Philip Sawyers: Symphony No. 4 & Hommage to Kandinsky

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Kenneth Woods is in his element with this kind of music, and the excellent musicians of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales are cleanly and spaciously recorded. Indeed, sound quality is an improvement... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2021 More…

Release Date: 5th Jun 2020
Catalogue No: NI6405
Label: Nimbus
Length: 64 minutes

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Sawyers: Symphony No. 4

Work length36:28

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Kenneth Woods

I. Moderato

Track length11:26

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II. Presto - Moderato - Presto

Track length9:18

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III. Adagio

Track length15:44

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Sawyers: Hommage to Kandinsky

Work length28:01

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Kenneth Woods

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Sawyers’s Fourth Symphony is scored for an orchestra of two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals and strings. Structurally, it marks a departure from his First and Third Symphonies, which are both in the traditional four-movement form, and the one-movement Second. Sawyers says of the somewhat unusual structure that: My Fourth symphony is in three movements. “Why?” might be a reasonable question. The answer is that simply that by the time the third movement was complete, there was nothing more to say.

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Jan/Feb 2021

Kenneth Woods is in his element with this kind of music, and the excellent musicians of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales are cleanly and spaciously recorded. Indeed, sound quality is an improvement on the English Symphony Orchestra’s recordings of Sawyers’s Second and Third Symphonies. Most importantly, both works (particularly the symphony) deserve repeated, careful listening.

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