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 John Pickard Sixteen Sunrises • Symphony No. 5 • Concertante Variations BIS 2261 1 CD/SACD stereo/surround • 63min • 2016 ↓ Werke und Interpreten ↓ Bestellen bei jpc Dies ist die nunmehr vierte CD mit weitgehend groß besetzten Orchesterwerken von John Pickard bei BIS (darunter eine vorzügliche für Blasorchester), und es ist erfreulich, dass dieses audiophile Label,… Continue reading Klassik- heute (in German) Symphony no.5, Sixteen Sunrises review

Pickard, John – Sinfonie Nr. 5 In neue Gefilde Label/Verlag: BIS Records Detailinformationen zum besprochenen Titel   Martyn Brabbins läuft zusammen mit dem großartigen BBC-Orchester aus Wales in den Werken von John Pickard zu Höchstform auf. Hochspannend, differenziert, vielfarbig. John Pickard (geb. 1963) gehört längst zur nachwachsenden nächsten britischen Komponistengeneration. Sein profiliertes Œuvre, das im Bereich… Continue reading Klassik.com (in German) John Pickard: In neue Gefilde Symphony no.5, Sixteen Sunrises

Pickard Symphony No.5 (2014); Sixteen Sunrises (2013); Concertante Variations (2011); Toccata after Claudio Monteverdi (1998) BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Martyn Brabbins BIS BIS 2261SACD Summary The fourth release in BIS’s survey of orchestral works by John Pickard (b1963), featuring his latest symphony and two shorter pieces which between them underline the expressive scope of his musical thinking; rounded off… Continue reading Arcana FM On record:Symphony no.5, Sixteen Sunrises

The chief work on BIS’s fourth CD devoted to the music of John Pickard (b1963) is his Fifth and most recent Symphony, composed in an intense burst of creativity in the early months of 2014. (Its predecessor, the Gaia Symphony for brass band – 11/14 – took 13 years to achieve its final form!) Pickard’s five symphonies cover his entire career… Continue reading Gramophone Sixteen Sunrises. Symphony No 5 review

Financial Times John Pickard: Symphony No.5— ‘urgent, must-listen music’ Subscription required. https://www.ft.com/content/a1db0f7a-6fff-11e7-93ff-99f383b09ff9

Reviewed by John Quinn The first disc closes with one of the most impressive works in the entire collection. John Pickard has selected five poems by Laurence Binyon who, as he rightly says, is rather an unfashionable poet these days. Four of the poems are concerned with nature while one of them – the fourth… Continue reading MusicWeb International – Now Comes Beauty – Binyon Songs

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins with Emily Pailthorpe at Maida Vale – Simon Wills’s Empress of Blandings, Dan Jenkins’s SRI, Richard Blackford’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, and John Pickard’s Channel Firing Friday, October 16, 2015 Studio 1, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Delaware Road, Maida Vale, London Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse The BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Maida… Continue reading Classical Source – BBC Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins – Maida Vale 16 October 2015