Special offer. Edwin Roxburgh: Saturn
Linda Merrick (clarinet)
Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra, Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra, Peter Stark, Edwin Roxburgh
The Clarinet Concerto (1995) falls into a half-hour single movement… the intense central meditation and build-up to a climactic cadenza with percussion is impressively realised. Linda Merrick...
Special offer. Edwin Roxburgh: Saturn
Linda Merrick (clarinet)
Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra, Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra, Peter Stark, Edwin Roxburgh
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The Clarinet Concerto (1995) falls into a half-hour single movement… the intense central meditation and build-up to a climactic cadenza with percussion is impressively realised. Linda Merrick...
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Roxburgh's Clarinet Concerto features soloist Linda Merrick in a work of symphonic scope and expressivity; she is accompanied by the Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer. In Saturn - a tribute to Holst, Roxburgh's predecessor at the Royal College of Music - Roxburgh explores the mythical characters of its moons and satellites in a series of orchestral showpieces which culminates in the wild abandon, and percussive onslaught, of Saturn itself; Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra is conducted by Peter Stark. 'Saturn is an epic orchestral and electronic space-scape, effortlessly blending Roxburgh's understanding of Boulez and Stockhausen with a Birtwistle-like sense of ritual. An orbiting soprano saxophone beams down ideas to an orchestral underlay dominated by clattering percussion and mind-expanding electronics; this is an extraordinarily ballsy mission undertaken by HCYO.' The Wire, 2006
Contents and tracklist
- Linda Merrick
- Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra
- Edwin Roxburgh
- Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra
- Peter Stark
Awards and reviews
September 2006
The Clarinet Concerto (1995) falls into a half-hour single movement… the intense central meditation and build-up to a climactic cadenza with percussion is impressively realised. Linda Merrick gives a confident and assured performance, and Roxburgh secures a committed response from the RNCM forces.
Saturn is an epic orchestral and electronic space-scape, effortlessly blending Roxburgh's understanding of Boulez and Stockhausen with a Birtwistle-like sense of ritual
