Maw - Sinfonia *
Gardner, Addison, Dodgson - Music for Brass

* English Chamber Orchestra, Norman Del Mar, conductor
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Philip Jones & Elgar Howarth, trumpets
Ifor James, horn John Iveson, trombone John Fletcher, tuba

Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 2008 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: SRCD.307
UPC/EAN: 5020926030726
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: ADD
Number of discs: 1
Total playing time: 62.56
Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

Tracks 1 - 3: Recorded at The Maltings, Snape, 12 October 1970
Tracks 4 - 14: Recorded at Decca Studio No. 3, London, 3 December 1974, Producer: Michael Bremner, Engineer: Stanley Goodall

Born on 5 November 1935 in Grantham, Nicholas Maw studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1955 to 1958 with Lennox Berkeley and Paul Steinitz, and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Max Deutsch. Despite the merits of such early works as Nocturne for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra (1958) or his Webernesque Six Chinese songs (1959), it was not until the première of his cantata for three women’s voices and orchestra, Scenes and Arias at the Proms in 1962 that Maw first came to prominence ...

	Sinfonia (1966)	Nicholas Maw (b. 1935)	30.00
1	I Molto sostenuto		13.49
2	II Threnody		9.30
3	III Variations		10.33
	Divertimento for Brass Quartet Op. 9 (1951)	John Addison (1920 - 1998)	8.17
4	I Fanfare		1.33
5	II Valse		1.23
6	III Scherzo		1.09
7	IV Lullaby		2.06
8	V Galop		2.06
9	Theme and Variations for Brass Quartet Op. 7 (1951)	John Gardner (b. 1917)	9.55
	Sonata for Brass Quintet (1963)	Stephen Dodgson (b. 1924)	10.48
10	I Allegro moderato		1.54
11	II Poco adagio		2.37
12	III Vivace		1.32
13	IV Lento		2.35
14	V Allegro		2.10