Детали релиза : Tommy Smith & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Modern Jacobite (2016) [FLAC (tracks)]

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Tommy Smith, the great Scottish saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, studied classical orchestration in the 1990s, and has played in plenty of challenging jazz/classical settings. But Modern Jacobite is his most ambitious journey yet, centred on an intricately woven three-movement symphonic work inspired by the Jacobite uprisings; it is bookended by a rapturous tenor-sax improvisation on Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise, and by Chick Corea’s famous Children’s Songs interleaved with Smith’s own Bairn’s Songs as personal variations on the same theme. The Jacobite pieces embrace violent, cinematic soundscapes for slewing brass and thundering percussion; deep cello themes that segue into pulsating tenor-sax ruminations; Scottish folk dances that become pipe-toned tenor jigs. There are seamless sprints into swing and fast-changing scene-shifts in which Smith’s sophisticated awareness of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s full potential testify to his long-honed musical class and attention to detail. Jazz/classical crossovers can be full of pitfalls, but this one is a triumph. (John Fordham, The Guardian)

Tenor saxophone, composer
TOMMY SMITH

Conductor
CLARK RUNDELL

Violin 1
LAURA SAMUEL
KANAKO ITO
CHERYL CROCKETT
PETER CYNFRYN JONES
JANE HAINEY
PETER ISAACS
ALASTAIR SAVAGE
OLIVIER LEMOINE
GENT KOCHO
AMY CARDIGAN
EMILY WARD
MINSI YANG
JANE IEMOINE

Violin 2
LISE AFERIAT
LIZA JOHNSON
ELIZABETH FLACK
JULIA NORTON
ALEX GASCOINE
JANIS WALTON
JULIA CARPENTER
BARBARA DOWNIE
ALICE RICKARDS
BEN NORRIS

Violas
SCOTT DICKINSON
ANDREW BERRIDGE
FIONA ROBERTSON
JACQUI PENFOLD
ALICE BATTY
RIK EVANS
MARY WARD
JENNIFER EDWARDS

Cellos
MARTIN STOREY
ALISON LAWRANCE
SONIA CROMARTY
HAROLD HARRIS
SHARON MOLLOY
GILL DE GROOTE
ANNE BRINCOURT
ROSEMARY TOWNHILL

Double Basses
NICHOLAS BAYLEY
IAIN CRAWFORD
JOHN VAN LIEROP
DEREK HILL
JEREMY WARD
PAUL SPEIRS

Flutes
TOM HANCOX
ROSEMARY LOCK
EWAN ROBERTSON

Oboes
JOE SANDERS
DANIEL FINNEY
JAMES HORAN

Clarinets
YANN GHIRO
BARRY DEACON
SIMON BUTTERWORTH

Bassoons
JULIAN ROBERTS
GRAEME BROWN
PETER WESLEY

Horns
DAVID FLACK
JEREMY BUSHELL
STEPHANIE JONES
JAMIE SHIELD

Trumpets
MARK O'KEEFFE
ERIC DUNLEA
ROBERT BAXTER

Trombones
BECKY SMITH
CHRISTOPHER MANSEFIELD

Bass Trombone
ALAN MATHISON

Tuba
ANDREW DUNCAN

Timpani
GORDON RIGBY

Percussion
HEATHER CORBETT
DAVID LYONS
ROBERT PURSE

Piano
LYNDA COCHRANE

Harp
HELEN MACLEOD