Symphony No. 4 'Gaia' Symphony / Eden
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JOHN PICKARD
Symphony No. 4 'Gaia' Symphony / Eden
Eikanger-Bjorsvik Musikklag, Andreas Hanson
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Monday 28 July 2014
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Composed over a period of fourteen years, John Pickard's Gaia Symphony and Eden are scored for the standard 'British' brass band, with expanded percussion in the case of 'Gaia'. Both works in different ways mirror concerns regarding the world and nature, and their relationship with the human species.
The two demanding scores are here performed by Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag from Norway, one of today's leading brass bands and the first non-British band to claim the European brass band title.
"This disc contains his two major works written for brass band. The Gaia Symphony was indeed composed for the Cory Band from the Rhondda Valley in South Wales during the period when Pickard was their composer-in-residence....anybody who is interested in the development of music in the twenty-first century should rush out and buy this CD at once. It is to be hoped that this will encourage BIS to explore the music of Pickard further, with recordings of his other four symphonies" (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2014).
