Composer: Christopher Tyler Nickel
Performer: Sarah Jackson, Oliver de Clercq, Laurel Spencer, Valerie Whitney, Holly Bryan
Orchestra: Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra
Conductor: Clyde Mitchell
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Avie
Catalogue: AV2736
Release: 2024
Size: 816 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Concerto for Piccolo
01. I. Andante con ferocia
02. II. Andante
03. III. Allegro con fuoco
Concerto for Four Wagner Tubas
04. I. Lacrimoso
05. II. Adagio
06. III. Allegro
Award-winning Canadian composer Christopher Tyler Nickel scales heights and plumbs depths with his novel new recording of concertos, for piccolo and for four Wagner tubas.
Following his recently released Requiem, last year’s epic seven-hour Gospel According to Mark, and concertante works for all ranges for his own instrument – oboe, oboe d’amore and bass oboe – Chris’ new recording includes a dazzling Concerto for Piccolo featuring principal piccolo player of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Sally Jackson, paired with an astounding assemblage of four players of the Wagner tuba, a hybrid tuba-French horn instrument commissioned by the namesake composer for his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Both Jackson and the four Wagner tuba soloists – Oliver de Clercq, Laurel Spencer, Valerie Whitney, Holly Bryan – are superbly supported by conductor Clyde Mitchell and the Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra.