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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: DCD34069 (EAN: 801918340697) | 1 CD | DDD - 24 b Released in: 2008
- LABEL:
- DELPHIAN RECORDS
- Collection:
- World Premiere Recording
- Subcollection:
- Quartet
- Composers:
- HARPER, Edward
- Ensembles:
- Edinburgh Quartet | Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus
- Conductors:
- WALKER, Garry
- Other info:
World premiere recordings
Delphian's first orchestral recording presents a richly imagined new choral
symphony by Edward Harper, setting it alongside chamber works by this
inventive and limpidly expressive composer.
Harper's music is firmly within the British symphonic tradition, yet ranges wider still in its deeply felt response to human experience, from the 19th-century Dorset of William Barnes to a message of hope and reconciliation from the present-day Middle East.
Edward Harper was born in Taunton, Somerset. He studied music at Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained a first class honours degree, and at the Royal College of Music, London. Subsequently he studied for a further period with Franco Donatoni in Milan. Since 1964 he has been on the staff of the Faculty of Music at Edinburgh University, where he is a Senior Lecturer. He is active as a pianist and conductor and is the Director of the New Music Group of Scotland, an ensemble which has established itself as a significant and highly- valued part of Scottish musical life, as well as giving concerts in London and abroad.
Harper, E:
Three folk settings for string quartet
The Lowlands of Holland
The Ash Grove
Mairi's Wedding
Scena for solo cello
Scena II for flute, cello and piano
Symphony No. 2
Edward Harper (piano), Anna Jones (flute), Louise Paterson (cello) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Edinburgh Quartet, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, Garry Walker
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