Crossing Ohashi Bridge

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An intriguing mix of four works from the middle generation of British composers, two of which really stand out: Roger Marsh's Canto and Anthony Gilbert's Palace of the Winds. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Oct 2011
Catalogue No: NMCD174
Label: NMC
Length: 75 minutes

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Poole, G: Crossing Ohashi Bridge

Work length19:08

Album only

$5.15

Goldberg Ensemble
Malcolm Layfield

Marsh, R: Canto 1

Work length14:02

$2.05

$3.85

Goldberg Ensemble
Malcolm Layfield

LeFanu: Amores

Work length35:18

Album only

$6.50

Richard Watkins
Goldberg Ensemble
Malcolm Layfield

I. Very Serene

Track length16:57

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$1.30

II. Presto

Track length4:56

$1.00

$1.30

III. Sonorous

Track length5:18

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Cadenza, Quick

Track length5:21

$1.00

$1.30

V. Spacious

Track length2:46

$1.00

$1.30

Gilbert, A: Palace of the Winds

Work length6:40

$1.00

$5.15

Goldberg Ensemble
Malcolm Layfield

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Richard Watkins is at the forefront of promoting contemporary music for the horn. He has given premières of concertos by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Nigel Osborne, Magnus Lindberg, Dominic Muldowney, Nicola LeFanu, and Colin and David Matthews.

The Goldberg Ensemble is committed to performing and commissioning new music, particularly by British composers.

This new recording features a collection of works for string ensemble commissioned by the Goldberg Ensemble including Roger Marsh's haunting Canto 1, based on Dante's Paradiso; Nicola Lefanu's lyrical Amores for horn and string ensemble; Anthony Gilbert's Palace of the Winds inspired by the elaborately ornate Hawa Mahal palace in Jaipur and Geoffrey Poole's Crossing Ohashi Bridge, an abstract work inspired by chaos mathematics such as Fractals, Mandelbrot sets, and named after the Hiroshige painting Sudden shower over Shin-Ôhashi bridge, as featured on the front cover of this disc.

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December 2011

An intriguing mix of four works from the middle generation of British composers, two of which really stand out: Roger Marsh's Canto and Anthony Gilbert's Palace of the Winds.

23rd October 2011

These four contemporary essays for 11 strings (one with added instrument) are impressive testimony to the Goldberg’s stimulating power. All are highly accomplished, reconceiving as they celebrate the medium, not succumbing to its readily clichéd “Englishness”.

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