Harriet Mackenzie, Richard Harwood, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Christopher Gunning – Christopher Gunning: Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto, Birdflight (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:53 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
Christopher Gunning returns with recordings of his Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto and Birdflight.
Not composed until 2011, Gunning’s Violin Concerto was composed after inspiration whilst the composer was out hiking in Wales. The violin is supposed to represent ducking and weaving, rather like the insects and animals found in the Welsh hills and valleys. However, despite this positive venture for the composer, the emotions of sadness and melancholy are never far from this music – feelings which never seem far from Gunning’s music.
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Verity Gunning, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Christopher Gunning – Gunning: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 & Oboe Concerto (2009/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:58 minutes | 602 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Christopher Gunning is best known for his film and television work, for which he has won four BAFTA awards (for La Vie en rose, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Middlemarch, and Porterhouse Blue) and three Ivor Novello awards (for Rebecca, Under Suspicion, and Firelight).
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Christopher Gunning – Christopher Gunning: Symphonies 6 & 7, Night Voyage (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:14 minutes | 1023 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
Following the celebrated releases of Gunning’s Symphonies Nos. 2, 10 & 12 in 2019 and his concertos for Violin and Cello with the piece ‘Birdflight’ in 2020, Signum presents the recording of Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7 as well as his piece ‘Night Voyage’, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Linked by the theme of journeying, Symphonies 6 & 7 explore Gunning’s fascination with a single movement form broken into several sub-sections. The piece ‘Night Voyage’ is a sea piece born on a rainy evening whilst the composer was standing on the edge of the Mersey river.
Four-time BAFTA winning composer Christopher Gunning, has composed twelve symphonies as well as concertos for the piano, violin, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, and guitar.
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