Once Around the Sun
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Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 8287669525200
Label : Bmg
Manufacturer : Bmg
Publisher : Bmg
Release date : 2005-05-23
Title : Once Around the Sun
Studio : Bmg
Number of discs : 1
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review by: violin-chico date: 2005-09-14 rating:... and once more...
I picked up this album after seeing the Joby Talbot Band play live at Queen Elizabeth Hall in July 2005. Was really impressed with the concert and have to say, I am thoroughly enjoying the CD as well.
Joby wrote a short piece for each month during 2004 as part of his stint as Classic FM's Composer in Residence. The works that have resulted have a tremendously diverse target audience. Part of the people who will love this will be fans of Joby from his days at Divine Comedy. There will be some who know Joby as a film composer and then others who discovered him on the airwaves at Classic FM.
Each of the pieces are scored for a small ensemble, using any of the combination of piano, violin, cello, percussion and harp. They feel very fresh and vibrant in their textures due to these restrictions but are harmonically accessible to all due to his background in popular and film music.
My personal highlights on the disc are April's track "The First Day of Summer" and September's "The Last Day of Summer" for their playful nature and the more sombre "Artic Circle" for timbre and fantastic percussion lines. Everton Nelson's playing of "Eleven", the track for November takes the listener to a world of J.S. Bach in terms of its figuration but the harmonic structure are certainly more modern than that
This CD to me has a variety of functions: it educates those more familiar with popular genres into the world of classical music and also takes those who like their classical works to a new genre leaving behind the chamber pieces of Beethoven and Mozart but retaining the sounds of the instruments they find recognisable. Either way, a broadening musical process is inevitable.
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