Adderbury Ensemble

Christopher Ball: Horn Concerto; Oboe Concerto, et al. / Tim Thorpe, horn; Paul Arden-Taylor, oboe

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2011-11-08

Works: Christopher Ball: Concerto for Horn; In the Yorkshire Dales, for flute, oboe & orchestra; On a Beautiful Day, for flute, oboe & orchestra; Oboe Concerto; Celtic Moods, for flute & orchestra; Invocati...
Performers: Armstrong, Roger; Burgess, Jonathan; Craven, Leslie; Taylor, Paul Arden; Thorpe, Jim
Conductors: Ball, Christopher
Ensemble: ; Adderbury Ensemble; Emerald Concert Orchestra

BBC Music Magazine, April 2012 ***
Fine wind soloists, the horn player Tim Thorpe especially, add lustre to these English, pastoral and modest works.
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Chamber Music By John Veale & Robert Crawford / Adderbury Ensemble

1 CD / Metier / 2011-01-31

Works: John Veale: String Quartet; Impromptu for recorder; Triptych, for recorder & string quartet; Robert Crawford: Elegiac Quintet, for recorder & string quartet; Two-part Inventions (3), for recorder & v...
Performers: Fenton, Jane; Lewis, Simon; Melchior, Lisanne; Merrick, Linda; Turner, John; Windass, Christopher
Conductors:
Ensemble: Adderbury Ensemble

This disc includes chamber music by two British composers - one born in 1922 and the other in 1925 - both of whose compositional careers...continue...
Recording information: St. Michael's Church, Summertown, Oxford, England (05/07/2009-05/09/2009)....continue...

Ball: Recorder Concerto, etc / Arden-Taylor, Ball, Adderbury

1 CD / Pavane / 1999-05-29

Works: Christopher Ball: Concerto for Recorder "The Piper of Dreams"; Concerto for Oboe; Quintet for Winds "Scenes from a comedy"; Pagan Piper; Pan Overheard
Performers: Arden-Taylor, Paul; Brett, Adrian; Craven, Leslie; Gladstone, Anthony; Harrison, Peter [Bassoon]
Conductors: Ball, Christopher
Ensemble: Adderbury Ensemble

"Anyone interested in the extremes of the new traditionalism should investigate this release. The wind concertos of conductor-composer...Ball are so unremittingly pleasant, so uncompromising in...continue...