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Recent Recordings Peter Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise With Ben Gernon, Conductor and Sean Shibe, Guitar We didn’t plan this new recording as a tribute to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies who sadly passed away in March, but, as Paul Driver in the Sunday Times pointed out, it has “afforded us a fond farewell” and offers a rich musical realisation of Orkney – the composer’s adopted home. The orchestral works on this album are interwoven with five Hill Runes for guitar (Sean Shibe) and an arrangement for the same instrument of Farewell to Stromness. The real discovery for Nicholas Kenyon (writing in the Guardian) is Ebb of Winter, commissioned by the SCO for its
40th Anniversary in 2014. “It is a vivid overture conjuring the wild spaces and often bleak weather of the islands that Max loved, with a wonderful openness and transparency in the orchestration.”
“...played with an irrepressible panache and swinging energy... It’s all hugely life-inspiring.” McAlister Matheson Music Newsletter –––––– Available to purchase now from the SCO Merchandise desk at concerts: £12. Also available to download in Studio Master from www.linnrecords.com –––––– Kindly supported by the SCO Sir Charles Mackerras Fund, The Bacher Trust and the Usher Hall, Edinburgh.
Stravinsky: Choral Works –––––– A ten-strong wind and brass ensemble from the SCO linked up with the Choir of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh under the direction of Duncan Ferguson. Joined by vocal soloists Ruby Hughes and Nicholas Mulroy, our ensemble recorded major works by one of the twentieth century’s most influential composers, Igor Stravinsky. Included on the album is Stravinsky’s Mass in its full version, alongside his ‘completions’ of three Cantiones Sacrae by Gesualdo. Stravinsky: Choral Works Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral Duncan Ferguson SCO Soloists
–––––– “This disc shows off a choir of distinction... Their fresh, youthful sound lends colour to the studious dourness of Stravinsky’s deliberately monochrome mass” Sunday Times, August 2016 “This logically planned programme is beautifully sung and blessed with outstandingly vivid recorded sound”. Gramophone, October 2016
