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The Golden Section

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LN 0092

The Golden Section

Label Catalogue Number:
CKD092

Running Time: 67:13

Release Date: September 1999
Originally recorded in September 1999

Genre:
Classical

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The Wallace Collection (John Wallace and John Miller on trumpet, Paul Gardham on horn, Simon Gunton on trombone and Robin Haggart on tuba) perform works by John Tavener, John White, Jim Parker, Michael Nyman, William Mathias & James Macmillan.

Taverner's Trisagion was written originally for the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, who famously described it as "unplayable by a quintet of mere mortals"! The Wallace Collection's phenomenal technical skills are fully showcased in this work which takes its inspiration from the Byzantine church. Conversely the title track by Jim Parker is inspired by mathematics, namely the Fibonacci Sequence which is known as The Golden Section.

John White's Doggerel Machine uses strange contrasts and juxtapositions, and sets up mechanical repetition figures.

Best known for his film score for The Piano, Michael Nyman's Masque Arias is the composer's own transcription of music from the score he wrote for Prospero's Books and is very typical of the composer's style. James MacMillan' Adam's Rib was commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and takes its inspiration from the second chapter of Genesis.

John Wallace : Trumpet

John Miller : Trumpet

Paul Gardham : Horn

Simon Gunton : Trombone

Robin Haggart : Tuba

Recording information:

Engineered by Philip Hobbs

Produced by Mike Purton

Recorded at St. James' Church, Rushton, Tunbridge Wells on 26 & 27 November 1997 and 16 February 1998

Post-production by Ben Turner at Finesplice

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