Composer: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Performer: David Nicholson, Elisabeth Dooner, Maurice Checker, Josef Pacewicz, Ruth Ellis, Alison Green
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8572356
Release: 2014
Size: 279 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Strathclyde Concerto No. 9, Op. 170
Strathclyde Concerto No. 10, Op. 179
02. I. Allegro non troppo
03. II. Lento
04. III. Moderato
05. Carolísima, Op. 168
Peter Maxwell Davies’s Strathclyde Concertos, jointly commissioned by Strathclyde Regional Council and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in 1987, have given rise to a whole family of concertos for different and unusual instruments. Strathclyde Concerto No. 9 provides an opportunity for woodwind instruments to shine as soloists, the music inspired by the infinite shades of winter light reflected from the seas of Orkney. The final tenth concerto is “a concerto for orchestra that’s as bracing as a gale on the rugged Orkney cliffs” (BBC Music Magazine), and the delightful Carolísima is filled with dances and singable tunes.