Peter Gregson

Peter Gregson – Mari (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 13:32 minutes | 142 MB | Genre: Soundtrack, Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Mari (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is composed by Peter Gregson. An award-winning composer and cellist, Gregson is known for his distinctive cello sound, with his artist releases positioning him at the forefront of modern instrumental music.

Peter has written music for documentaries, video games, short films and feature films, including A Little Chaos directed by Alan Rickman. Recent work includes the open-world video game Boundless.
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Peter Gregson – Untitled for 7 Dancers (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 24:42 minutes | 465 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

You never know what you’ve got until it’s gone. So goes the idiom describing our lack of appreciation for people and things until we lose them. And what about music? What about our experiences? Over a year into a pandemic, and I’m certainly missing live shows. It’s not that I truly enjoyed sitting on some wooden hard pews, nodding away close to midnight after a very long day, straining to capture a glimpse in the near-complete dark. And I definitely do not miss the spilt beer, the chirping of telephones, and the insistent clamour of talking over the audible tale. But I do miss the moment of music creation, its resonant forms, the player’s connection with the sound of their instrument, and, most importantly, the invisible conversation between the audience and the artist. These thoughts are renewed as I rewatch this video, where the British composer and cellist (and even a friend), Peter Gregson, sits on the stage and plays into the empty theatre, its hollow vacancy the sole witness to feelings expressed. For this piece, “Patina”, the same as the title of his upcoming new album on Deutsche Grammophon, Gregson zooms in on the instrument, stripping away at the layers of sound, until you are left all alone, surrounded by the inaudible absence. And when your mind plays a trick by filling the void, inventing the melodies no longer in music, you too become a performer, playing with Gregson along side by side, on the stage of this moment facing the future of the unknown.

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Peter Gregson – Patina (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:02 minutes | 951 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

It’s beneath the surface that we often discover real beauty. Strip away melody, and the underlying sounds and textures become the story. Cellist and composer Peter Gregson brings us up-close to music’s inner truth: the delicate sounds of bow meeting string (“Patina”) and fingers on keyboard (“Sense”); the complex, woody overtones of a solo cello (“Don’t Wake”)-all of which we often ignore. This is an album of textures-human, acoustic, and digital-and almost formless soundscapes that envelop the listener, their imperfections inviting an atmosphere of peace and calm, comfort and reassurance. In “Sequence (Seven),” Gregson blends electronica and strings to mesmerizing effect, while his soaring, close-mic’d cello lends “Over” a gorgeous, raw beauty.

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Peter Gregson – Lights in the Sky (2014/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:48 minutes | 384 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Best-known for his collaborations with technologists and avant-garde composers, the cellist and composer Peter Gregson has launched his own label with a full-length album of his own compositions. As well as writing the pieces for cello, piano and analogue synthesizer, Gregson also performs all of the music.

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Peter Gregson – Boundless (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:25 minutes | 645 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Peter Gregson’s second release of 2021 is a follow-up to the recording of his beautiful performance from Hollywood’s Capitol Studios which was issued in January as a digital and visual album entitled An Evening at Capitol Studios: Bach Recomposed by Peter Gregson.

Boundless an Original Game soundtrack is composed entirely by Gregson with arrangements by collaborator Sam Thompson and includes twenty songs that were used within the Wonderstruck-developed video game, originally released in 2018.

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Peter Gregson – Bach: The Cello Suites – Recomposed by Peter Gregson (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:53:00 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Award-winning cellist and composer Peter Gregson is the latest contemporary composer to be invited by Deutsche Grammophon to reinterpret iconic works in the classical canon for their pioneering Recomposed series. Gregson follows in the footsteps of contemporaries Matthew Herbert, Matthias Arfmann, Jimi Tenor and Max Richter, whose Recomposed by Max Richter – Vivaldi: The Four Seasons was the latest, hugely popular release in the series.

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Peter Gregson – An Evening at Capitol Studios: Bach Recomposed (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 14:48 minutes | 300 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Cellist Peter Gregson’s Bach Recomposed versions of Bach’s unaccompanied cello suites appeared in 2018, featuring rather ambient arrangements of the works for a complement of six cellos, with synthesizer layers added by Gregson. These performances of Gregson’s pieces were recorded in early 2021 and have found commercial success with the present EP. It’s possible that that success is due to the fact that listeners can get an idea of what the set is like in just 14 minutes, but the EP will also be of interest to admirers of Gregson’s original work. Most noticeable is the transfer of the recording venue to Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, which provides an ideal ambiance for Gregson’s music. Many of Gregson’s original arrangements retained a good deal of Bach’s melodic material, but here, he has selected some of the more minimal items from his original group, heightening the meditative quality imparted by the Capitol studio. As before, the music is accessible to anyone, from aficionados of pop electronics to those interested in the application of experimental electronic techniques to the classical repertory, and the music is worth the time for anyone. – James Manheim

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Peter Gregson – Adolescence (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:04 minutes | 359 MB | Genre: Soundtrack, Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

In demand as a cellist for his improvisation work across major film and television soundtracks for composers including Lorne Balfe, Alex Heffes, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Michael Price and many others, Spitfire Audio developed a sample library of Peter’s extended cello techniques and sounds from his blue, five-string electric cello, all recorded at Pixel, his studio at Tileyard Studios, London.

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