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James B Wilson - Turner's Ships
For solo piano
Performed by Yana Khvan

For more details and score: https://www.ram.ac.uk/multimedia/turners-ships

About 200 PIECES:

As part of its Bicentenary celebrations, the Royal Academy of Music embarked on an ambitious project, inviting 200 composers to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice. The recordings and scores for these works, written for every principal study instrument taught at the Academy, will be available on Monday 19 December 2022, creating a new library of varied contemporary works by many of the world’s leading composers.
ram.ac.uk/200-pieces

Turner's Ships

Wilson - Turner's Ships

Four Tet kindly asked me to join him on Radio One the other day .Here's my 30 minute segment from the show. Tracklist below!

Bruce – Petal Pluck [Hessle Audio]
DJ Harlow – I’m The D [White Label]
Mosca – Cedar Wood State (Volt Mix) [Not So Much]
Pearson Sound – Untitled [Unreleased]
Rudeboyz – Space Walk [Unknown]
Pangaea – Skips Desk [Unreleased]
Peverelist vs. Pearson – Aztec Crimson [Unreleased]
Kowton – A Blueish Shadow [Livity Sound]
Pearson Sound – Robin Chasing Butterflies [Unreleased]

30 min mix on BBC Radio 1 // Four Tet sitting in for Benji B

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Played by Grand Band at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival, as part of the Peter Reynolds Composer Studio.

Grand Band: Vicky Chow, David Friend, Paul Kerekes, Blair McMillen, Lisa Moore and Isabelle O'Connell. https://www.grandbandnyc.com/

Mill, for 6 pianos (Live)

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For solo piano, played by Joseph Havlat. Recorded live in concert at Dartington Summer School, 2017. Nominated for a British Composer Award 2018.
Sheet music available here: https://www.wmarsey.com/music/belmont-chill

Belmont Chill

https://alexpaxtonmusic.com/Music-for-concerts

Counter tenor
Sop Sax / kazzos
Alto Sax / kazzos
2 trombones
2 Synths/ melodicas
Drum Kit
Violin
Cello

Patrick Terry
Matt Herd (solo)
David Ingermells (solo)
Kalliopi Mitropoulou
Mike Newman
David Zucchi
Alex Paxton

Purple-Tree Tapestry

The Green Fuse 

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The inspiration for The Green Fuse came from a poem, written by Dylan Thomas. In ‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower’ (1934), Thomas contemplates the nature of the force which drives all things. The poem evokes the strength of this force but also confronts its uneasy duality, which both moves a plant to flower and puts a man in his grave. What is this energy that makes creativity and joy possible and yet becomes life’s destroyer?
Thomas conjures many striking images to convey the majesty of nature and the bloom of youth; the incandescent power of our world. They are coloured, however, by a pervasive melancholy and inevitability. The poem leaves the question ‘why?’ unanswered, like a brooding cloud. However, I find a faint hint of consolation, a feeling not of hope but of comfort through discourse: a warmth. ‘Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood/Shall calm her sores.’
The music opens with a burst of colour. The green fuse is lit.
 
James Wilson

James Wilson More Tunes

The Green Fuse

This is a rehearsal of part of the polyrhythmic max patch that actually broke directly before the gig, so I couldn't play with it, really fucking frustrating, one day I will do this again with all the other parts of the patch which I never got to try out.

fuck it...

Barbican1 Rehearsal Seq1 [remote control orchestra]

Sphinx Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra Live at the Newman Center in Denver

Star-burst

Concerto for Jazz-Musician & Orchestra. Composed by Alex Paxton.
2.2.2.2 4.2.3.1 2Perc.Tmp.Hp Strings 10.8.6.4.2 

Od Ody Pink'd was written for the Alex Paxton and Royal National Scottish Orchestra and recorded here by the  Alex Paxton & Puple-Tree Tapestry Orchestra  (2019)

Principals
Taylor Maclennan - Flute
Lavinia Redman - Oboe
Alexander Roberts - Clarinet
Izabela Musial - Bassoon
Gwyn Owen - Trumpet
Alex Paxton - Trombone
Lasma Taimina - Violin
Clifton Harrison - Viola
Cecilia Wyld - Cello
Gwen Reed - Bass



https://alexpaxtonmusic.com
https://alexpaxtonmusic.com/Music-for-concerts
https://alexpaxtonmusic.com/TROMBONE-and-Improvisation

Od Ody Pink'd. Concerto for Jazz-Musician & Orchestra.

Live performance at the Korzo Theater, Den Haag, 16th February 2013
E guitar: Pete Harden. 
Samplers: Erik-Jan De With, Joey Marijs, Saskia Lankhoorn, Anton van Houten.


David Fennessy on "Caruso (Gold is the sweat of the sun)" (2012)
 
Throughout the troubled production of his 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, set deep in the Peruvian jungle, the German filmmaker Werner Herzog kept vivid and shocking diaries which he published years later as the book ‘Conquest of the Useless’. I have become somewhat obsessed with these diaries recently and have begun work on a series of pieces drawing on different themes contained therein. This piece, ‘Caruso’, deals with the initial image, or dream which inspired Herzog to make the film in the first place.
 
“A vision had seized hold of me...of a large steamship scaling a hill under its own steam, working its way up a steep slope in the jungle, while above this natural landscape, which shatters the weak and the strong with equal ferocity, soars the voice of Caruso, silencing all the pain and all the voices of the primeval forest and drowning out all birdsong”.
 
In my piece, the guitar is enveloped by a ‘choir’ of Carusos whose influence is by turns obsessive, healing, overpowering and ultimately, silencing.


The work is written with financial support of the Arts Council Ireland.

Caruso (Gold is the sweat of the sun) - David Fennessy (Live)

James B. Wilson is an award-winning composer of contemporary classical music based in Bedfordshire, England. He studied, with a scholarship, at Royal Academy of Music under Gary Carpenter and David Sawer, and also took frequent lessons with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

James’ music explores the rich textural, timbral and harmonic possibilities of acoustic instruments and the voice. His output is influenced by stories of our time and the work and ideas of many composers and artists, ranging from Benjamin Britten to Sonic Youth, the poetry of Dylan Thomas to the films of David Lynch. For instance a recent piece (Free-man) saw James explore the events of the Bristol Bus Boycott and is dedicated to activist Dr Paul Stevenson OBE.

His multifaceted compositions range from intimate music for soloists and duets, to immersive electronic pieces, ensemble music, and works for orchestra. His passion for working with the voice, as well as instrumentalists, is also apparent in his output, with numerous choral pieces alongside concert works with a theatrical influence or vocal quality.

He has won a number of awards including the Evan Senior Scholarship, Peter Lamborne Youth Bursary, Lena Pritchard Green Award, Charles Black Fellowship, and worked with many leading musicians including Benjamin Grosvenor, members of the London Symphony Orchestra, Genesis 16 and Note Inegales. James is an NMC Recording Artist and his music is broadcast internationally, recently with a performance given by the BBC Singers, later broadcast on Radio 3. He was the first ever composer commissioned by the Chineke! Orchestra; the resulting piece, The Green Fuse, premiered at The Cheltenham Festival.

The Green Fuse

James B. Wilson

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