Name: Bacchanale by Nic Gotham
Duration: 11 min 48 s
Description: I wrote Bacchanale on commission for the Riga Saxophone Quartet in 2007. The first performance was at the World Saxophone Congress in Ljubljana, Slovenia and featured the RSQ and the Slovenian Army Orchestra under Alain Crepin. This recording is by the RSQ and the Riga Professional Wind Orchestra with Jānis Puriņš conducting.

The closing aria from Act 1 of Vivier's opera Kopernikus, arr. by Trio Scordatura. With special guest Arnold Marinissen, percussion.

Tao tao tao (Claude Vivier, 1978, arr. Trio Scordatura)

I wrote Bacchanale on commission for the Riga Saxophone Quartet in 2007. The first performance was at the World Saxophone Congress in Ljubljana, Slovenia and featured the RSQ and the Slovenian Army Orchestra under Alain Crepin. This recording is by the RSQ and the Riga Professional Wind Orchestra with Jānis Puriņš conducting. 


Bacchanale

premiere performance, Theater Dakota, The Hague, April 2013 (with third movement spliced in from a rehearsal because the original distorted). Four movements: I. Progiesmiais II. Grass Wounds III. Jonui Plepui IV. Taksi Chorale.

Transmission (Anton Lukoszevieze, 2013)

I'm a composer and saxophone-player. Born in the UK, I've spent most of my life in Canada but lived in Riga, Latvia from 1998 to 2012. I now live in Toronto again.  As a musician, I split my time evenly between writing "contemporary classical" music and writing and playing jazz and jazz-related music. (Please visit NiMo Jazz here on SoundCloud to hear some of this.)

Bacchanale

Nic Gotham

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