Jerome de Bromhead: Orchestral Music
The vitality of these three works by the Irish composer Jerome de Bromhead (b. 1945) points to the sheer pleasure that their creator takes in writing music. The swirling ebullience of the tone-poem A Lay for a Light Year suggests the scale and energy of the cosmos. The edgy, elegiac lyricism of the Violin Concerto inhabits textures that are brittle and clear like Stravinsky’s. And the more chromatic Second Symphony suggests a vast sense of space behind a glittering foreground of kaleidoscopic orchestral colours.
Alan Smale, violin (Tracks 2–4)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Colman Pearce, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
- A Lay for a Light Year (2014)
- I Andante cantabile
- II Mesto
- III Vigoroso
- I Quasi Corrento
- II Quasi Variazioni Mesti
- III Quasi Toccata
Violin Concerto (2008)
Symphony No. 2 (1994)
MusicWeb International :
“De Bromhead is an interesting prospect and his music on this evidence encompasses neon-lit dream textures and imposingly statuesque brass writing. The music feels well organised and efficient.”
—Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International