Robert Saxton - Scenes from the Epic of Gilgamesh

Robert SAXTON (b.1953)

Scenes from The Epic of Gilgamesh (2023)

The Resurrection of the Soldiers (2021)

English Symphony Orchestra

English String Orchestra 

Kenneth Woods

Recorded 7 April 2021 and 7 March 2023 at Waystone Concert Hall

Philip Sawyers - Double Concerto for Violin and Cello; Viola Concerto

Philip SAWYERS (b.1951)

Double Concerto for Violin and Cello

Remembrance for Strings*

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra

Octet

Daniel Rowland (violin, viola) 

Maja Bogdanović (cello)

English String Orchestra*

English Symphony Orchestra

Kenneth Woods

21st Century Violin Concertos (Patterson; Pritchard; Matthews; Fokkens; Doolittle)

 

An Eventful Morning in East London: 

21st Century Violin Concertos

Paul PATTERSON (b. 1947)

Allusions, for Two Solo Violins and Strings (2007) 

Deborah PRITCHARD (b. 1977)

Wall of Water ‒ Violin Concerto (2014) [21:07]

David MATTHEWS (b. 1943)

Romanza for Solo Violin and String Orchestra (2012) 

Robert FOKKENS (b. 1975)

An Eventful Morning Near East London ‒ Violin Concerto (2006) 

Emily DOOLITTLE (b. 1972)

falling still for Violin and Strings (2001) 

Harriet Mackenzie (violin)

Philippa Mo (violin: Patterson)

English String Orchestra

English Symphony Orchestra

Kenneth Woods (Fokkens)

rec. LSO St Luke’s, London, October 2014 (Pritchard); Wyastone Concert Hall, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, January 2017 (other works)