{"id":9700,"date":"2022-10-07T13:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?post_type=product&p=9700"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:25:47","slug":"adrian-williams-symphony-no-1-portraits-of-ned-kelly-english-symphony-orchestra-kenneth-woods-nimbus-alliance","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/product\/adrian-williams-symphony-no-1-portraits-of-ned-kelly-english-symphony-orchestra-kenneth-woods-nimbus-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Williams – Symphony No. 1, Portraits of Ned Kelly. English Symphony Orchestra\/Kenneth Woods (Nimbus Alliance)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Adrian Williams, Symphony No. 1 & Chamber Concerto: Portrait of Ned Kelly<\/h3>\n
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This World Premiere Recording featuresSymphony No. 1, as well as an enticing work: Chamber Concerto: Portraits of Ned Kelly.<\/div>\n
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\u201cMy first symphony began its life during the spring of2018following a request from Kenneth Woods for a work for theEnglish Symphony Orchestra\u2019s 21st Century SymphonyProject. The basic score was completed towards the end of the following year but continued to undergo quite a few changes almost until its recording in December 2021. The symphony, which is dedicated to Kenneth Woods \u2018for giving me hope\u2019 is one of my largest-scale pieces. am hugely grateful to Ken Woods and the ESO for their tremendous dedication.\u201d Adrian Williams<\/div>\n
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\u201cThis remarkable work is one of two by Williams to grow from his friendship with the great Australian painter,Sidney Nolan. Nolan and Williams were neighbours in the Welsh Borders region that Williams has called home for most of the last forty years. Williams, a prolific pianist, was given the invitation to use the piano atThe Rodd, Nolan\u2019s house in northwest Herefordshire and now the home of the Sidney Nolan Trust. The Chamber Concerto is a musical response to Nolan\u2019s most famous series of paintings, which depict scenesfrom the wild life of Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly, an outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer who rampaged across Australia in the years prior tohis arrest and execution in 1880. Williams\u2019 music almost always has a virtuosic edge to it, but the demands placed on the musicians in this work are truly extraordinary, yet it is incredibly rewarding to play. In this sense, Williams\u2019 designation of the work as a concerto is both telling and apt is it demands that everyone in the ensemble contributes their utmost in rhythmic precision, agility, accuracy in extremes of register and lyrical storytelling.\u201d Kenneth Woods<\/p>\n

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“This brilliant and virtuosic work may sound like a modern day Till Eulenspiegel drugged out of his mind. It\u2019s funny, surreal and somehow also moving… <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The orchestra, under the baton of its leader Kenneth Woods, is at its best in the many rather brief solos and besides that in the ensemble as a whole. Despite the many demands on all participants, no weaknesses show. The ensemble is balanced and disciplined and shows the necessary intensity. The direction by Kenneth Woods results in a clearly structured performance that presents the music with verve.” Remy Franck, Pizzicato (Luxembourg)\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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