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ARTISTS

Fidelio Trio,

The Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan, violin, Robin Michael, cello and Mary Dullea, piano) perform extremely diverse repertoire throughout Europe, Asia and South Africa and frequently broadcast for BBC Radio 3. Since their South Bank debut they have appeared at Reggello Festival and Contemporaneamente Festival, Lodi (Italy), West Cork Music, Belfast Festival at Queens, Royal Opera House, London, Corsham Festival, Petworth Festival, Fuse Leeds, Musica Viva (Portugal) and Composer’s Choice Series, National Concert Hall, Dublin. 

The Fidelio Trio have worked closely with many leading composers including Michael Nyman, Toshio Hosokawa and Howard Skempton and have premiered music by Salvatore Sciarrino, Edison Denisov, Beat Furrer and Toru Takemitsu. They are Music Network artists and supported by PRS Foundation, Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland.

They have given masterclasses at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire, Royal Holloway University of London and Cork School of Music. 

 

Image Credit: Sophie Dennehy
Website: http://www.fideliotrio.com/
Orkest de Ereprijs,
Orkest de Ereprijs play contemporary music especially composed for them, and undertake projects exploring different disciplines, resulting in programmes which combine music with dance, sculpture, cinema, theatre and architecture. Their repertoire includes works by composers of many nationalities, resulting in invitations to festivals and theatres abroad. By changing the structure of the ensemble – working with invited soloists, additional instrumentalists or singers, or using electronic means – their stage presentation and sound can be radically altered from a classical chamber orchestra, to a pop group, to an electronic studio.
 
The ensemble is based in Apeldoorn, in the Netherlands, where it organises the annual International Young Composers Meeting, in association with the International Gaudeamus Music Week.
Website: http://www.ereprijs.nl/
BBC Concert Orchestra,
The BBC Concert Orchestra is the UK’s most versatile orchestra. Their action-packed, eclectic schedule boasts concert programmes with music from Haydn to Tchaikovsky, film scores with Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) and the Pet Shop Boys to gigs alongside the Guillemots, Kasabian, Annie Lennox, KD Lang and Will Young.
 
The 56 players happily switch between recording shimmering scores for TV like Planet Earth, Coast, Walking with Dinosaurs, Kombat Opera and Sports Personality of the Year to building talent and audiences of the future in schools workshops in London and the South East. The Orchestra’s Composer-in-Residence is Jonny Greenwood (otherwise best-known for his work with Radiohead). His score for the film There will be Blood which was recorded with the BBC Concert Orchestra was nominated for two Golden Globes and a BAFTA.
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/concertorchestra/
Charles Hazelwood, Conductor
Charles Hazlewood is one of the most dynamic British musicians of his generation. Currently principal guest conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, he also guest conducts many leading UK and world orchestras. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2003, and BBC Proms debut in 2006.
 
As music director of contemporary ensemble Excellent Device (formed in 1991), Hazlewood has blazed a trail in new ways of approaching music; its sister orchestra, Harmonieband, fearures leading UK period instrumentalists. Hazlewood is music director and co-founder of the Cape Town-based lyric theatre company Dimpho Di Kopane; as a composer, he has conceived the music for Yiimimngaliso (The Mysteries), Ibali Loo Tsotsi (The Beggar's Opera), and The Snow Queen, premiered in New York in 2004.
 
As part of his drive to engage the maximum number of people with music, Hazlewood is known to millions as "the face of classical music" (The Daily Telegraph) for BBC TV, in addition to presenting Discovering Music on BBC Radio 3 and the Sony Award-winning Charles Hazlewood Show on BBC Radio 2 broadcast from his farm in rural Somerset.
 
Future projects include a new album and film combining Excellent Device with Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals, and creating a brand new fully-staged version of Handel's Messiah, and a landmark series for the BBC on the history of British music.
Website: http://www.charleshazlewood.com

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COMPOSER:

Joe CUTLER

DESCRIPTION

Joe Cutler's first full-length album demonstrates his multi-faceted style of composition - from the song cycle In Praise of Dreams, written for soprano Sarah Leonard, to the driving rhythms of Sal's Sax (performed by Orkest de Ereprijs) and the dark orchestral Music for Cello and Strings - recorded by Robin Michael with the BBC Concert Orchestra under Charles Hazlewood.

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Gramophone Critics' Choice of 2008 · Music Web 'Record of the Month'

"The titles of Joe Cutler's pieces seem designed as smokescreen more than anything else. Behind their jokey references and diverse cultural allusions lurks beautifully crafted music of great energy and creative imagination." Guardian

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PUBLISHING DETAILS

Joe Cutler’s music is available from Sound and Music (formerly BMIC)

RECORDING CREDITS

Music for Cello and Strings was recorded on 29 November 2007 at CTS Studios, Watford Colosseum.

Engineer: PHILIP BURWELL for BBC Radio 3
Producer / Editor: NEIL VARLEY for BBC Radio 3
Buckley’s Hot Licks was recorded on 26 January 2004 at the Church of St Silas, Kentish Town.
Engineer / Producer / Editor: DAVID LEFEBER for Metier
Sal’s Sax was recorded on 15-16 June 19996 at Musis Sacrum, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Engineer: BERT VAN DIJK
Archie and Bartlebooth were recorded on 15 April 2007 at Riverrun Studios, Potton, Bedford; In Praise of Dreams was recorded on 17 April
2007 and Clavinova Music on 19 February 2008, both at Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire.
Engineer / Editor: SIMON HALL
Executive Producers: SIMON HALL, JOE CUTLER
Mastering: SIMON HALL
Executive Producer: COLIN MATTHEWS

Front Cover image: TOM DALE
Design: FRANCOIS HALL

Music for Cello and Strings, In Praise of Dreams, Archie, Bartlebooth, Clavinova Music and Sal’s Sax (P) 2008 NMC Recordings Ltd
Buckley’s Hot Licks (P) 2006 BMIC

 

Catalogue number:
NMC D134
Release Date:
16 June 2008