Description
This album of Andrew Powell’s ground-breaking music for solo and ensemble brass is long overdue. On the landmark of Andrew’s 75th birthday this tribute to one of Wales’s most important contemporary composers covers the music he has written over the past 25 years for his lifetime friend and collaborator, John Wallace.
John and his brass group, The Wallace Collection, are joined by the young quintet ‘Solstice Brass’ from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to give authoritative performances supervised by the composer. Performances also include the composer on percussion and piano (‘To a Walrus’) and both in that and the rest of the programme, on live electronics, supported by his wife, Kirsten Powell in the recording studio, and in the post-production process.
This overview of the last quarter-century of the evolution of Andrew’s brass music began in the Royal Academy Recording Studio (1999, Plasmogeny II), continued in Govan & Linthouse Parish Church (2021, Ritual), Laidlaw Music Centre St Andrews (2022, To a Walrus, Variations Toward a Theme), and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2023, “Within Those Radiances…” ).
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Comprehensive information, photographs, and links about the development of these works are provided via an exclusive web-page, accessed via the QR code provided on each purchased album.
