BBC Singers, Hallé Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni – Emily Howard: The Anvil (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:52 minutes | 594 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records
The imagined sounds of mass protest run through composer Emily Howard’s and poet Michael Symmons Roberts’s The Anvil, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Manchester International Festival to mark the bicentenary of the 1819 Peterloo massacre, in which crowds protesting for universal suffrage in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, were brutally crushed.
To a solo soprano who narrates and remembers and a baritone who seems caught in the action, the work adds the immense forces of four choirs – each given music tailored to its particular capabilities, from professional to amateur – and the BBC Philharmonic to ask: what future was being forged in the tragic events that took place that day?
A second collaboration between Howard and Symmons Roberts, Elliptics, is quieter, more elegiac: a meditation on love and death, and on what we hope will survive.
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Simon Callaghan, Ben Gernon, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Rheinberger & Scholz: Piano Concertos (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:13 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
Just what the Romantic Piano Concerto series does best: three works unlikely to be encountered in the concert hall, in performances by artists who wholeheartedly—and justifiably—believe in the music. The high expectations of this series are amply realized in volume seventy-six.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra & Ben Gernon – The Immersive Experience (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:11:27 minutes | 3,47 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
The Immersive Experience is a spectacular collection of 35 of the greatest classical tracks, recorded in Dolby Atmos surround sound by the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir and young British conductor Ben Gernon at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.
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David Childs, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & Ben Gernon – The Symphonic Euphonium, Vol. 2 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:06 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Unlocking the full potential of the euphonium as a concerto instrument with symphony orchestra has been an ambition for David Childs since he premiered the orchestral version of Philip Wilby’s Euphonium Concerto in the BBC Young Musician of the Year final in 2000. The four compositions on this album are all results of that ambition, in different ways.
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