John Pickard Sixteen Sunrises • Symphony No. 5 • Concertante Variations BIS 2261 1 CD/SACD stereo/surround • 63min • 2016

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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 […]

Pickard, John – Sinfonie Nr. 5 In neue Gefilde

Label/Verlag: BIS Records
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Martyn Brabbins läuft zusammen mit dem großartigen BBC-Orchester aus Wales […]

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 […]

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 […]

Financial Times John Pickard: Symphony No.5— ‘urgent, must-listen music’

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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 […]

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 […]