Philip Grange: Homage

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Over the past 15 years Grange has also completed Eclipsing(2004), a large-scale orchestral piece. Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Philharmonic and premiered by them under Vassily Sinaisky; the work was also performed by the orchestra under Andris Nelsons in a BBC concert celebrating the composer’s fiftieth birthday. Also dating from this period are three string quartets; the first two were completed in 2003 for the Kreutzer and Lindsay Quartets while the third, Ghosts of Great Violence(2011/13), was written for the Quatuor Danel.More recently he has composed the large-scale chamber work Shifting Thresholds(2016) for the ensemble Gemini, Carved Forms(2017) for flute and accordion and a Violin Concerto (2019).The latter was commissioned by the BBC for Carolin Widmann and the BBC Philharmonic who premiered the work under Ben Gernon at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester in November 2019.

Grange's music has been broadcast throughout the world, and 20 of his works have been released on commercial CD, including 3 single-composers CDs: Dark Labyrinths (2000) (awarded Classical Album of the Week in Music Week), Darkness Visible (2006) and Zeitgeist (2007). During the early 1990s Grange completed two BBC commissions, Focus and Fade for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, which performed the premiere at the Royal Festival Hall in 1992 conducted by Andrew Davis, and Lowry Dreamscape, which was premiered at the 1993 BBC Festival of Brass by the Sun Life Brass Band conducted by Roy Newsome. Other works from this period include Piano Polyptich (premiered by Stephen Pruslin on 26 June 1993 at the Aldeburgh Festival) [6] and Bacchus Bagatelles for wind quintet. [7] Fiercely difficult to play though the music is – and it is meant to be unconducted, like true chamber music – it Nicola LeFanu/David Lumsdaine: Mandala 3 Metier/Divine Art msv28565 ʽʽIt is powerful music, an intense and absorbing work which receives virtuosic performances from pianist

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Grange's first published pieces date from the late 1970s, and include Cimmerian Nocturne (1979), which was commissioned by The Fires of London, and included a performance under director Peter Maxwell Davies at the 1983 Proms [4] as well as performances in Britain and abroad. Other early works include The Kingdom of Bones for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra, (1983), Variations (1988) and Concerto for Orchestra: Labyrinthine Images (1988) [5] Gemini. Indeed, listening to the disc iss omething like being party to an intimate, intelligent and far-ranging the mid-1970s – Ave Maris Stella and Psalm 124, Star-Folded and Economies of Scale date from 2000 and This is a thoroughly enjoyable programme. True, the music is not always immediately obvious, but that is no bad thing. Works of art can give up their secrets and their beauties slowly. All the pieces are written in a modernist style that is always approachable, interesting and satisfying. All these works are written with skill, strong formal principles, sharp dissonance balancing lyricism, and a rigorous intellectual underpinning There is nothing here for enthusiasts of neo-minimalist, characterless, post-Einaudi music that seems to dominate so much that passes for ‘art music’ these days. to your seat. In every perfectly imagined body gesture, facial expression and manipulation of her soprano, Wellsshowed a virtuoso understanding of Miss Donnithorne, her Reel, her Rant and her r ecitatives. She ran

skill of the players that the results sound natural and obvious, never overly contrived. This is chamber music Philip Grange’s earliest published compositions date from the late 1970s, and include Cimmerian Nocturne, written for Peter Maxwell Davies’ Fires of London – and inspired by Grange’s studies with Max. His compositions have been performed around the world to great acclaim and many have been recorded. Composer-portrait CDs provide important markers of a composer’s development. Furthermore, they do not promote single pieces, but, as is the case here, draw together works with a common thread, enabling an in-depth exploration of an aspect of a composer’s oeuvre. As recordings are realised carefully in a studio they are fully representative of a piece and thereby attract dissemination via platforms such as Spotify and YouTube and are often broadcast on radio stations. Indeed, a previous CD of Grange’s music recorded by Gemini has been broadcast in its entirety twice on Dutch radio and individual works have been broadcast elsewhere.Find sources: "Philip Grange"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( December 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) proves a gloriously strange and moving piece. A ‘meditation’ on the final chorus of the St. Matthew Passion, the work weaves bold new lines around transcribed excerpts of Bach’s score to create an affecting and