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Sally Beamish has the Gaelic art of keening down to a fine art. Scotland is her adopted home, and its history and culture course through music that so often finds its starting point in something... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Release Date: 25th Sep 2015
Catalogue No: BIS2156
Label: BIS
Length: 73 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

December 2015

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Beamish: Concerto for accordion and orchestra 'The Singing'

Work length42:06

$11.10

$16.60

James Crabb
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins

I. Andante - Allegro - Andante

Track length12:19

$2.05

$3.05

IIa. Lento

Track length13:11

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$3.05

IIb. Var. 1, Più mosso

Track length2:48

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$1.50

IIc. Var. 2, Più mosso

Track length6:33

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$1.50

IId. Var. 3, Ancora più mosso

Track length2:01

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$1.50

IIe. Var. 4, Adagio

Track length1:10

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$1.50

IIf. Var. 5, Adagio

Track length0:41

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IIg. Var. 6

Track length0:41

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$1.50

III. Var. 7, Finale. Allegro

Track length2:42

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$1.50

Beamish: A Cage of Doves

Work length2:17

$1.00

$1.50

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins

Beamish: Saxophone Concerto No. 2 "Under the Wing of the Rock" (Version for Alto Saxophone & Strings)

Work length0:54

$1.00

$1.50

Branford Marsalis
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins

Beamish: Reckless for chamber orchestra

Work length5:24

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$1.50

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins

Beamish: Trumpet Concerto

Work length23:09

$4.00

$6.10

Håkan Hardenberger
National Youth Orchestra of Scotland
Martyn Brabbins

I. Prelude. Adagio - Allegro

Track length6:57

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$1.50

II. Andante

Track length7:28

$1.50

$2.30

III. Allegro - Presto

Track length8:44

$1.50

$2.30

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The works on this disc of music by Sally Beamish were composed between 2003 and 2012. As a whole the programme highlights the inspiration she has found in Scotland, her adopted homeland, and its landscape and history, while also reflecting her interest in jazz and Scottish traditional music. Its title, ‘The Singing’ is taken from the opening work, a concerto for accordion and orchestra, but it also symbolizes her interest in song, be it Gaelic chants (as in the concerto) or a Scottish lullaby (Under the Wing of the Rock), and the more abstract concept of translating words into music, as in her Trumpet Concerto, which takes Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities as its starting point. As a composer, Sally Beamish often works in close collaboration with ‘her’ performers – three previous BIS releases testifies to her long involvement with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. On the present disc the three concertante works are all performed by the eminent soloists for whom they were written: James Crabb, Branford Marsalis and Håkan Hardenberger. The two former are joined by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, an ensemble which has performed works by Beamish on several occasions, in concert and on disc. Conducted by Martyn Brabbins, another champion of Beamish’s music, the RSNO has also recorded two purely orchestral works, A Cage of Doves and Reckless, while the Trumpet Concerto features the same team that premièred it in 2003: the aforementioned Hardenberger and the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland under Martyn Brabbins.

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December 2015

Sally Beamish has the Gaelic art of keening down to a fine art. Scotland is her adopted home, and its history and culture course through music that so often finds its starting point in something extra-musical - yet transcends the creative straightjacket of a 'programme'…[the RSNO] rises attentively to Martyn Brabbins's illuminating and incisive direction.

27th September 2015

Atmospheric, keenly felt and expertly played by all.

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