Simpson: Geysir / Mozart: Gran Partita

 
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MARK SIMPSON / W. A. MOZART
Simpson: Geysir / Mozart: Gran Partita
Mark Simpson, Fraser Langton (clarinets), Nicholas Daniel, Emma Feilding (oboes), Amy Harman, Dom Tyler (bassoon), etc

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Release Date: Friday 20 March 2020

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A stunning pairing of Mozart's glorious 'Gran Partita' Serenade with a work written specifically to be performed alongside it, Geysir by the exceptional clarinettist-composer, Mark Simpson. Mark Simpson's simmering, volcanic Geysir was inspired by the rich opening chord of Mozart's 'Gran Partita', and by its bubbling clarinet writing, which develop into what Simpson describes as a "flurry of colour and harmonic shifts". As a clarinettist himself, writing Geysir "was an instinctive thing - it never felt like trying to overcome any limitations… I'm very proud of it…" Mark Simpson, who performs on this release alongside a line-up of other extraordinary musicians including oboist Nicholas Daniel, was the first ever winner of both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year competitions in 2006. By 2019 he was composer in residence at the Leicester International Music Festival, and is currently working on a Violin Concerto for Nicola Benedetti and commissions for the LSO, WDR Sinfonieorchester and RSNO.

GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Chamber

"In a teeming catalogue, this new Gran Partita more than holds its own. But the clinching factor for many will be Mark Simpson's companion piece: a tour de force of wind colour and carefully controlled tension that makes an immediate impact and reveals more and more on repeated hearings...His elite players do him proud, in a performance of risk-taking virtuosity." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice February 2021

Tracks:

Simpson, M: Geysir
Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B flat major, K361 'Gran Partita'