Robin Stevens: Balmoral Suite (Portraits of the Royal Family): and other works for Recorder and Strings

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Release Date: 15th Mar 2019
Catalogue No: PFCD101
Label: Prima Facie
Length: 70 minutes

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Stevens, Robin: Balmoral Suite

Work length11:43

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Richard Howarth, Manchester Sinfonia, David Routledge, John Turner

I. Overture

Track length3:20

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II. Granpa Hankers for the Past

Track length2:14

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III. A Graceful Beauty

Track length1:49

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IV. Enter Great Grandpa

Track length3:09

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V. Rough and Tumble in the Nursery

Track length1:11

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Hope, P: Geordie Tunes

Work length3:14

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Richard Howarth, Manchester Sinfonia, David Routledge, John Turner

I. Go to Berwick Johnnie

Track length1:04

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II. Bonnie at Morn

Track length2:10

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Hope, P: Geordie Tune: III. Fairly Shot of Her

Work length1:11

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Richard Howarth, Manchester Sinfonia, David Routledge, John Turner

Hope, P: Geordie Tunes

Work length3:47

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Richard Howarth, Manchester Sinfonia, David Routledge, John Turner

IV. Blow the Wind Southerly

Track length2:34

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V. Bobby Shaftoe

Track length1:13

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Hedges: Elegy for Tony

Work length3:34

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Richard Howarth, Manchester Sinfonia, David Routledge, John Turner

Marshall, N: A Playful Garland

Work length8:52

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Richard Howarth, Manchester Sinfonia, David Routledge, John Turner

I. The Old Mole

Track length1:21

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II. The Irish Lamentation

Track length1:44

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III. Prince Rupert's March

Track length1:31

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IV. Spring Garden

Track length2:55

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V. The Fit's Come on Me Now

Track length1:21

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Wilfred Heaton: Little Suite

Work length9:04

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Richard Howarth, Manchester Sinfonia, David Routledge, John Turner

I. Grave - Prestissimo

Track length1:38

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II. Con energia

Track length1:05

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III. Cantabile

Track length3:04

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III. Giocosi e ritmico

Track length1:15

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IV. Presto

Track length2:02

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Pehkonen: Twilight and Evening Bell

Work length7:44

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Richard Howarth, Manchester Sinfonia, David Routledge, John Turner

Beck, D: Concerto No. 2

Work length11:39

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Richard Howarth, Manchester Sinfonia, David Routledge, John Turner

I. Nocturne

Track length2:32

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II. Seascape

Track length4:13

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III. Playtime

Track length4:54

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Golland: New World Dances, Op. 62a

Work length6:58

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Richard Howarth, Manchester Sinfonia, David Routledge, John Turner

I. Ragtime

Track length2:39

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II. Blues

Track length2:15

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III. Bossa Nova

Track length2:04

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Hand, C: Salterello

Work length2:54

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Richard Howarth, Manchester Sinfonia, David Routledge, John Turner

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Prima facie are pleased to release a new collection of works by contemporary composers for recorder and strings. Performed by John Turner (recorder) and The Manchester Sinfonia, this collection of works includes the title work “Balmoral Suite” by Robin Stevens plus works by Peter Hope, John Golland, Anthony Hedges, Nicholas Marshall, Colin Hand, David Beck, Elis Pekhonen and Wilfred Heaton.

”I wrote this suite in 2017, as an affectionate tribute to a well-known family who habitually spend their summer holidays in the eponymous Scottish Highland abode. The work is a pastiche of Scottish folk music, with the occasional Modernist twist thrown in, to keep both listeners and players on their toes. Of the five movements, the first, Overture - The Family Gathers (descant, then sopranino) begins with a certain regal poise, after which ensues a medley of tunes expressing the wide range of ages and personalities brought together.

Grandpa Hankers for the Past (descant), in recognition of the somewhat conservative taste of perhaps the most musical family member, is written in a mannered, rococo style, with a straightforward ABACA structure, giving the recorder plenty of scope for ornamentation in the reprises of the opening section. A Enter Great-Grandpa (treble) gently acknowledges the growing frailty of the family’s oldest member, depicting a difficult walking gait and a degree ofunderstandable irascibility in the sections of dissonant harmony, especially where the strings play on the bridge. ” - Robin Stevens

John Turner is one of the leading recorder players of today. Born in Stockport, he was Senior Scholar in Law at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge before pursuing a legal career, acting for many distinguished musicians and musical organisations. These included numerous appearances and recordings with David Munrow’s Early Music Consort of London, the Academy of Ancient Music, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martinin- the-Fields and the English Baroque Soloists. He now devotes his time to playing, writing, reviewing, publishing, composing and generally energising. He has played as recorder soloist

with the Halle Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata, the English Baroque Soloists, the English Chamber Orchestra, and many other leading orchestras and ensembles. Concertos and works with orchestra have been written for him by Gordon Crosse, Anthony Gilbert, Peter Hope, Kenneth Leighton, Elis Pehkonen, Alan Bullard, John Casken, and many other distinguished composers.

Robin Stevens: Balmoral Suite (Portraits of the Royal Family)

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