Oliver Davis – Oliver Davis: Blue (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:58 minutes | 942 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
Blue is inspired by water in its various forms. I chose to write the album for Beth & Flo after discovering their ability to play brilliantly together in a vast array of styles.
One of the earliest sketches I wrote for the album was the first movement of Sea Dances. I was inspired after seeing a short film online about the puffer fish and started to compose to the film, scoring the music to match the movements of the small fish. At the other end of the spectrum in terms of size is the blue whale, whose elegant motion I aimed to evoke in ‘Graceful giants’.
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Oliver Davis, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Bateman – Oliver Davis: Air (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:39 minutes | 997 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
Oliver Davis’s seventh album “Air” with Signum brings together a stellar array of performers, including violinists Benjamin Baker and Kerenza Peacock, soprano Grace Davidson and tenor Jeremy Budd, alongside German ensemble the Hanke Brothers and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Paul Bateman.Oliver Davis graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1994 and has since composed numerous concertos, ballet scores, albums, soundtracks and television scores working with many of the major London orchestras. Davis’ debut album “Flight”, recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra with soloist Kerenza Peacock, was released in March 2015 and quickly rose to number 2 in the UK Specialist Classical Charts. In addition it was chosen as “Featured Album of the Week” on Classic FM and was broadcast daily on the station. Several pieces from the album “Flight” have been used for a ballet choreographed by Ma Cong for the Tulsa Ballet Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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