Matthew Taylor - Orchestral Music Vol.2 | Toccata Classics TOCC0708

Matthew Taylor - Orchestral Music Vol.2

£13.25

Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0708

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Expected Release Date: 7th June 2024

Contents

Artists

James Turnbull (oboe)
Poppy Beddoe (clarinet)
Mira Marton (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor

Matthew Taylor

Works

Taylor, Matthew

Clarinet Concertino, op.63
Oboe Concerto, op.60
Symphony no.6, op.62
Violin Concertino, op.52

Artists

James Turnbull (oboe)
Poppy Beddoe (clarinet)
Mira Marton (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor

Matthew Taylor

About

The music of the English composer Matthew Taylor (b. 1964) manages both to honour tradition and pull out some surprises. Clearly in the tradition that leads from Carl Nielsen through Robert Simpson, the works here observe Nielsen’s fondness for dignity of expression, the occasional hint of power tempered by an almost Mendelssohnian lightness of touch – and, here and there, a note of levity: the Sixth Symphony, after all, is dedicated to the memory of Sir Malcolm Arnold. The three concertante works are performed here by musicians whose playing Taylor particularly admires.

“Matthew Taylor is a consummate string quartet composer. His music enshrines a personal voice that may reflect influences but has deeply absorbed them. It is fluidly constructed and generates its own sense of time and direction. It is marked by strong characterisation and genuine craft and it honours the past without being in any way dependent on it.” – Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International, on TOCC0144 (Taylor - String Quartets 5, 6 & 7)

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