{"id":6137,"date":"2014-07-06T19:53:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T18:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?page_id=6137"},"modified":"2017-02-06T20:12:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T19:12:37","slug":"philip-sawyers-cello-concerto-symphony-no-2-concertante-for-violin-piano-and-strings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/bio\/discography\/philip-sawyers-cello-concerto-symphony-no-2-concertante-for-violin-piano-and-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Sawyers- Cello Concerto, Symphony no. 2, Concertante for Violin, Piano and Strings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sawyers-CD-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6132\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sawyers-CD-cover-1010x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sawyers CD cover\" width=\"489\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sawyers-CD-cover-1010x1024.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sawyers-CD-cover-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sawyers-CD-cover.jpg 1479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Released 7 July, 2014<br \/>\nNimbus Records<br \/>\nProduced, engineered and edited by Simon Fox-G\u00e1l<\/p>\n<p>Orchestra of the Swan<br \/>\nKenneth Woods, conductor<br \/>\nMaja Bogdanovic, cello<br \/>\nSteinberg Duo<br \/>\n&#8212; Nicholas Burns- piano, Lousia Stonehill- violin<\/p>\n<p>Cello Concerto<br \/>\nSymphony no. 2<br \/>\nConcertante for Violin, Piano and Strings<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce \"><ul class=\"products columns-4\">\n<li class=\"product type-product post-6300 status-publish first instock product_cat-cds product_tag-nimbus-records product_tag-orchestra-of-the-swan-2 product_tag-philip-sawyers has-post-thumbnail shipping-taxable purchasable product-type-simple\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/product\/philip-sawyers-symphony-no-2-cello-concerto-concertante-for-violin-piano-and-strings\/\" class=\"woocommerce-LoopProduct-link woocommerce-loop-product__link\"><span class=\"et_shop_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sawyers-CD-cover-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-woocommerce_thumbnail size-woocommerce_thumbnail\" alt=\"Philip Sawyers- Symphony no. 2, Cello Concerto, Concertante for Violin, Piano and Strings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sawyers-CD-cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sawyers-CD-cover-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span class=\"et_overlay\"><\/span><\/span><h2 class=\"woocommerce-loop-product__title\">Philip Sawyers- Symphony no. 2, Cello Concerto, Concertante for Violin, Piano and Strings<\/h2>\n\t<span class=\"price\"><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-amount amount\"><bdi><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-currencySymbol\">&pound;<\/span>12.00<\/bdi><\/span><\/span>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHere are three recent works of strong personality, genuine substance and warm-hearted integrity\u2026uncommon skill in handling instrumental forces\u2026performed here with thrilling conviction and formidable assurance by soloist Maja Bogdanovic\u2026 and the Orchestra of the Swan\u2026Sawyers\u2019s excitingly integrated music marries a generous lyrical impulse to a genuine thematic substance and marvellously invigorating contrapuntal flair\u2026 dashingly eloquent advocacy by the Steinberg Duo\u2026 Boasting admirable sound and judicious balance, this rewarding\u00a0collection earns the strongest recommendation\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2014\/10\/13\/cd-review-gramophone-magazine-on-sawyers-symphony-no-2\/\">Andrew Achenbach- Gramophone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicweb-international.com\/classrev\/2014\/ROTY\/ROTY_2014_AL.htm\">A 2014 MusicWeb International RECORD OF THE YEAR<\/a>\u00a0\u201cIt reveals Sawyers as a composer of real range, skill, intelligence and power. Contemporary music that is accessible in the best sense \u2013 knotty but not opaque, challenging but compelling. Very well engineered too and performed with zealous passion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #494949;\">\u201c\u2026with regard to Sawyers\u2019s compositions: they speak naturally, seriously, but by no means doggedly; his music is emotionally direct and always involving the intelligent listener. This is the kind of music for which many people have been secretly hoping for years\u2026 \u00a0I began with the Concertante (2006), the shortest work here at eleven minutes and calling for the fewest number of players. It is a magnificent composition, in the line of a single-movement three-sectioned combination of emotional power and relaxation, drama and contemplation, superbly expressed within an underlying and unifying pulse. The music is immediately intriguing and concerned entirely with development. The preparation for the central slower section is wonderfully achieved, growing quietly (and wholly organically) from the previous concluding bars, it builds to a genuine and powerful climax before morphing into the faster third section \u2013 a true \u2018coming together\u2019 of the material\u2026. \u00a0I ought not to have been surprised by the sheer fearlessness and directness of expression of the Second (2008), the work of a musician who is communicative, intelligent and unfailingly musical at all times within a very wide expressive range. There are no miscalculations in this work: it is a genuine Symphony, such as Sibelius, Nielsen, Schoenberg and Shostakovich would instantly have recognised, and in no sense is it \u2018old-fashioned\u2019 \u2013 the concept of \u2018fashion\u2019 in music is as unacceptable to Sawyers as it was to those earlier masters. Power, strength and expressive range are here a-plenty, and the continuous flow of the music is gripping, travelling this way and that, but at all times utterly well-paced. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect is that it is written for exactly the same-sized orchestra that Beethoven calls for in his Seventh Symphony, eminently playable, lying under the fingers and totally rewarding\u2026.The performances are totally committed and the recording quality is really fine. This is the kind of music that gives one hope for the future of our art.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #f33f3f;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.classicalsource.com\/db_control\/db_cd_review.php?id=12181\">\u00a0Robert Matthew-Walker, The Classical Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #494949;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #202020;\">\u201cThe symphony is full of drama and excitement. While at times it can seem restless and disturbed there are also plenty of moments of calm during which Sawyers\u2019 facility for writing haunting themes shows itself. This is a symphony where the cerebral and the emotional are perfectly in keeping with each other. They deliver a work that is passionate, at times even volcanic, but always genuine in its expression\u2026It\u2019s another demonstration of Sawyers\u2019 complete grasp of writing thematically interesting music that rewards the listener at every level. While short in terms of length it is dynamic with a powerfully driven motivic sense that cannot fail to grab the listener\u2019s attention\u2026This is a disc that anyone new to the music of Philip Sawyers, as I was, will find highly rewarding and thoroughly infectious.\u201d<br \/>\n<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #f33f3f;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musicweb-international.com\/classrev\/2014\/Aug14\/Sawyers_sy_CC_NI6281.htm\">\u2013 Steve Arloff, MusicWeb International<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #494949;\">\u201c\u2026.And now here is Philip Sawyers with an effortless demonstration that\u00a0the history of music can proceed in an unbroken\u00a0line\u00a0and that music of yesterday can easily accommodate the best products of today\u2026 There is much pleasure in observing with what\u00a0freedom\u00a0and resource Sawyers shows passing but fleeting respect for 12-note techniques in both the Symphony and Concertante. That is as it should be. To have\u00a0piano\u00a0and violin \u00a0as\u00a0soloists\u00a0in a concerted work is unusual. Haydn \u00a0and \u00a0Mendelssohn \u00a0had \u00a0shown that it could be done successfully, and Sawyers has also managed a work of great accomplishment. The start could hardly be more compelling\u2026This CD reflects great credit on all the\u00a0performers, but most on a composer previously unknown to me.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2014\/08\/19\/cd-review-music-and-vision-daily-on-philip-sawyers-orchestral-music\/\">\u2013Robert Anderson, MV Daily\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/bio\/discography\/philip-sawyers-cello-concerto-symphony-no-2-concertante-for-violin-piano-and-strings\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Released 7 July, 2014 Nimbus Records Produced, engineered and edited by Simon Fox-G\u00e1l Orchestra of the Swan Kenneth Woods, conductor Maja Bogdanovic, cello Steinberg Duo &#8212; Nicholas Burns- piano, Lousia Stonehill- violin Cello Concerto Symphony no. 2 Concertante for Violin, Piano and Strings \u201cHere are three recent works of strong personality, genuine substance and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4172,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7712,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6137\/revisions\/7712"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}