{"id":49082,"date":"2024-10-25T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfc4bbe8-95cb-4846-a094-f15f93e337d2"},"modified":"2024-10-31T14:07:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T13:07:15","slug":"adrian-sutton-violin-concerto-orchestral-works","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/adrian-sutton-violin-concerto-orchestral-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Sutton: Violin Concerto &#038; Orchestral Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 25 October 2024 at 11:41 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html> <head\/> <body> <p><strong>Adrian Sutton<\/strong><br\/> Violin Concerto*; Five Theatre Miniatures; A Fistful of Fives; War Horse Suite; Short Story<br\/> *Fenella Humphreys (violin); BBC Philharmonic\/Michael Seal<br\/><em>Chandos CHAN 20349\u00a0\u00a0\u00a074:21 mins\u00a0<\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"> <audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/10\/ORCH-Sutton-Violin-Concerto-Life-Force.mp3\"\/> <\/figure> <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Clip: Adrian Sutton: Violin Concerto &#8211; Life Force (Fenella Humphreys; BBC Philharmonic\/Michael Seal)<\/h6> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/adrian-sutton\">Adrian Sutton<\/a>\u2019s natural\u00a0<em>m\u00e9tier<\/em>\u00a0is the theatre, and even the Violin Concerto has an external programme which concerns a seagull and its appearance around various coastlines. The first movement begins dreamily with an eloquent long line for the soloist over gently lapping orchestral textures, and there\u2019s contrast later in more rhythmic passages: Adrian Sutton was himself a violinist, and the writing is idiomatic, but also tricky in its demands, both athletic and lyrical, which are effortlessly met by Fenella Humphreys.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/what-concerto\">What is a concerto?<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <p>The idiom is firmly tonal and British \u2013 the second movement reflects the composer\u2019s invitation to write a response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/ralph-vaughan-williams\">Vaughan Williams<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>The Lark Ascending<\/em>, and has something of the same repose, although with a more angular melodic line; and the finale is a boisterous affair, with snappy dancing rhythms.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/four-of-the-best-recordings-of-vaughan-williamss-the-lark-ascending\">Four of the best recordings of <em>The Lark Ascending<\/em><\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <p>In\u00a0<em>Short Story<\/em>, the specifics of the story are left to the listener\u2019s imagination, even though there\u2019s a clear if sometimes discursive narrative arc, with musical characters interacting and changing, as the piece begins in an almost folklike manner, rises to a climax and then subsides.\u00a0<\/p> <p><em>A Fistful of Fives<\/em>\u00a0crackles with energy from the start: five themes, all in five time, are contrasted in instrumentation and rhythm. It\u2019s a showpiece for orchestra and conductor, and comes across in a tight performance and really vivid sound.<\/p> <p>The six numbers in the\u00a0<em>War Horse Suite<\/em>\u00a0are derived from the stage play, and are constrained to an extent by their original length as music cues. But the\u00a0<em>Theatre Miniatures<\/em>\u00a0are all the better for having been expanded from their original form, and make sense as a group of character pieces in various styles.\u00a0<em>Martin Cotton<\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"5 Theatre Miniatures: No. 3, Gigue\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gyjTGNSklE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Clip: Adrian Sutton: 5 Theatre Miniatures \u2013 Gigue (BBC Philharmonic\/Michael Seal) <\/figcaption> <\/figure> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Friday, 25 October 2024 at 11:41 AM Adrian Sutton Violin Concerto*; Five Theatre Miniatures; A Fistful of Fives; War Horse Suite; Short Story *Fenella Humphreys (violin); BBC Philharmonic\/Michael SealChandos CHAN 20349\u00a0\u00a0\u00a074:21 mins\u00a0 Clip: Adrian Sutton: Violin Concerto &#8211; Life Force (Fenella Humphreys; BBC Philharmonic\/Michael Seal) Adrian Sutton\u2019s natural\u00a0m\u00e9tier\u00a0is the theatre, and even the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":49083,"template":"","categories":[1,80,79,19],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/adrian-sutton-violin-concerto-orchestral-works.jpg",900,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/adrian-sutton-violin-concerto-orchestral-works-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/adrian-sutton-violin-concerto-orchestral-works-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/adrian-sutton-violin-concerto-orchestral-works-768x768.jpg",768,768,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/adrian-sutton-violin-concerto-orchestral-works.jpg",800,800,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/adrian-sutton-violin-concerto-orchestral-works.jpg",900,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/adrian-sutton-violin-concerto-orchestral-works.jpg",900,900,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Published: Friday, 25 October 2024 at 11:41 AM Adrian Sutton Violin Concerto*; Five Theatre Miniatures; A Fistful of Fives; War Horse Suite; Short Story *Fenella Humphreys (violin); BBC Philharmonic\/Michael SealChandos CHAN 20349\u00a0\u00a0\u00a074:21 mins\u00a0 Clip: Adrian Sutton: Violin Concerto &#8211; Life Force (Fenella Humphreys; BBC Philharmonic\/Michael Seal) Adrian Sutton\u2019s natural\u00a0m\u00e9tier\u00a0is the theatre, and even the&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/49082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}