David Hackbridge JOHNSON: Orchestral Music, Volume Three
The first two Toccata Classics volumes of the orchestral music of the English composer David Hackbridge Johnson presented three mighty symphonies, conceived on a large scale and powerful in their utterance. The Fifteenth Symphony, tone-poems and other works offered here show a change in focus: an engagement with the natural world, reflecting the poetry of changing light and shifting winds, with man’s impermanent presence dwarfed by the implacable grandeur of nature. Here Paul Mann, a frequent Toccata Classics artist, conducts the orchestra of the very town- Liepaja, on the coast of Latvia- that inspired the Fifteenth Symphony.
Liepāja Symphony Orchestra
Kārlis Catlaks, E flat clarinet (Track 2)
Kristaps Catlaks, bass clarinet (Track 2)
Ilze Zariņa, leader
Paul Mann, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
- Aspens, Op. 362 (2017)
- Ziggurats, Op. 251 (2008)
- I Locrian Ground
- II Semper Dolens
- I Drift: Scorrevole dolcemente I Drift
- II Storm: Allegro con fuoco
- III Chorales: Lento
- Valse Mérovingienne, Op. 77a (2000; rev. 2017)
Two Elegies for Strings and Harp, Op. 159 (2005)
Symphony No. 15, Where the Wind was Born, Op. 361, No. 3 (2017)
First recordings
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