Edwin Roxburgh : Saturn/ Clarinet Concerto

Roxburgh's Clarinet Concerto features soloist Linda Merrick in a work of symphonic scope and expressivity; she is acompanied by the Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer. In Saturn - a tribute to Holst, Roxburgh's predecessor at the Royal College of Music - Roxburgh explores the mythical characters of its moons and satellites in a series of orchestral showpieces which culminates in the wild abandon, and percussive onslaught, of Saturn itself; Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra is conducted by Peter Stark.

"Saturn is an epic orchestral and electronic space-scape, effortlessly blending Roxburgh's understanding of Boulez and Stockhausen with a Birtwistle-like sense of ritual. An orbiting soprano saxophone beams down ideas to an orchestral underlay dominated by clattering percussion and mind-expanding electronics; this is an extraordinarily ballsy mission undertaken by HCYO."
The Wire 2006

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Track Listing	Track Time	MP3
Clarinet Concerto: 1 Very still - poco agitato -	15'59
Clarinet Concerto: 2 Sostenuto -	6'32
Clarinet Concerto: 3 Con anima	8'56
Saturn: Rings & Shepherds	2'43
Saturn: Mimas	2'12
Saturn: Enceladus	1'10
Saturn: Tethys	1'56
Saturn: Dione	2'13
Saturn: Rhea	0'49
Saturn: Titan	2'26
Saturn: Hyperion	2'37
Saturn: Iapetus	0'41
Saturn: Phoebe	1'44
Saturn: Saturn	9'44

Composers on this disc

Edwin Roxburgh