John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times BBC Singers & Martyn Brabbins
Album info
Album-Release:
2023
HRA-Release:
06.10.2023
Label: BIS
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Artist: BBC Singers & Martyn Brabbins
Composer: John Pickard (1963)
Album including Album cover
- John Pickard (b. 1963): Three Latin Motets:
- 1 Pickard: Three Latin Motets: I. O nata lux 01:43
- 2 Pickard: Three Latin Motets: II. Te lucis ante terminum 03:05
- 3 Pickard: Three Latin Motets: III. Ubi caritas et amor 02:58
- O magnum mysterium:
- 4 Pickard: O magnum mysterium 03:01
- Orion:
- 5 Pickard: Orion: I. Nebula 04:24
- 6 Pickard: Orion: II. Alnitak 06:34
- 7 Pickard: Orion: III. Betelgeuse 06:12
- Ave Maris Stella:
- 8 Pickard: Ave Maris Stella 04:14
- Ozymandias:
- 9 Pickard: Ozymandias 04:27
- Tesserae:
- 10 Pickard: Tesserae 11:37
- Mass in Troubled Times:
- 11 Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times: Introitus 02:37
- 12 Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times: Kyrie 02:15
- 13 Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times: Gloria 05:58
- 14 Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times: Credo 07:07
- 15 Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times: Sanctus 03:50
- 16 Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times: Agnus Dei 04:03
Info for John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times
Bei den bisherigen BIS-Veröffentlichungen von Werken John Pickards handelte es sich hauptsächlich um Instrumentalkompositionen. Die vorliegende Einspielung präsentiert eine weitere Facette des britischen Komponisten, mit Kompositionen für Chor unter der fachkundigen Leitung von Martyn Brabbins sowie zwei Instrumentalstücken. Die fünf kurzen lateinischen Motetten sowie Ozymandias, Pickards Opus 1, können als "Gelegenheitsstücke" bezeichnet werden, die während der Studienzeit des Komponisten oder für den Chor, den er an der Universität Bristol leitet, entstanden sind. Sie zeichnen sich durch eine solide tonale Grundlage und eine überwiegend homophone Schreibweise aus und bieten einen Einstieg in den eher dissonanten Stil der späteren Werke. Die für die BBC Singers geschriebene Messe in Troubled Times ist ein ehrgeiziges Werk, das Zeugnis ablegt von einem Kontext globaler Unsicherheit. Die Messe ist eine Zusammenarbeit mit dem Schriftsteller Gavin D'Costa, der einen komplexen, auf mehreren Quellen in fünf Sprachen basierenden Text konzipierte, der religiöse Texte aus dem Westen und dem Nahen Osten mit Gedichten verbindet, die die Not der Flüchtlinge thematisieren. Orion für Trompete und Orgel, das zum Teil programmatisch ist, das prächtigste Sternbild heraufbeschwört und die Trompeterin Chloë Abbott glänzen lässt, und Tesserae für Orgel solo mit seiner umwerfenden Virtuosität, hier gespielt vom Erstinterpreten des Werks, David Goode, runden dieses Album ab.
Chloë Abbott, Trompete
David Goode,Orgel
BBC-Sänger
Martyn Brabbins, Leitung
Chloë Abbott
is a British trumpet player, musician and curator. She is the first ever female trumpeter to be cast as ‘Michael’ in Stockhausen’s Licht, for performances of Luzifer’s Tanz in The Holland Festival 2019.
Chloë regularly performs with Modelo62, Musikfabrik, Asko Schönberg and Apartment House. She has recorded several CDs for the label Another Timbre with the UK-based group, Apartment House; recorded for the BBC with Music We’d Like to Hear and An Assembly, performed the solo part in Richard Ayres’ ‘Noncerto 31; played in a musical pilgrimage with the ‘Trumpets aus Licht’ at Klangspuren; collaborated closely with contemporary choreographer Sze Chan as part of a movement and sound exploration called WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), performed with Ensemble Modelo62, and worked with various London-based new music collectives. Recent performances in 2017/18 include being selected to join the Ulysses Ensemble at Ircam’s Manifeste Academy, Aldeburgh Music, Voix Nouvelles Academy at the Royaumont Foundation and collaboration with IEMA as well as workshops and open spaces at Darmstadt Ferienkurse 2018. In these projects she has worked with conductors and composers such as Beat Furrer, Helmut Lachenmann, Lucas Vis, Peter Rundel, Heinz Holliger, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Rebecca Saunders and Milica Djorjevic.
She also both performed in and curated a contemporary concert day at the Musique Cordiale Festival in southern France in August 2017.
She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2015, she completed both an MMus and BMus Hons. She studied under John Kenny, Noel Langley, Paul Cosh, Paul Beniston, Steve Keavy and Will O’Sullivan. Whilst at Guildhall Chloë was also a Britten-Pears Young Artist during 2014 and 2017. She finished further studies at Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag in 2019. Studying on the unique music course - Master Aus Licht - learningintensely with Marco Blauuw, focusing primarily on Stockhausen repertoire, but also covering a wide range of new and recent repertoire for the trumpet.
Chloë has performed in masterclasses with Hakan Hardenberger, Thierry Caens, Tine Thing Helseth, David Blackadder, Alison Balsom, Patrick Harrild and Philip Cobb. She has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, The Tallis Society, London Handel Society, London Arts Orchestra and Jersey Chamber Orchestra in venues such as Dutch National Opera House, Centquatre, TivoliVredenburg, Cafe Oto, Centre Pompidou, Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, The Place and LSO St Lukes, playing both baroque, classical and new contemporary repertoire for trumpet.
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