Roumania marks the 6th studio album to be released by the British artist Bernard Oglesby in 2015 on the Bauer label. The work, 5 years in the making, explores the haunting Ballad for violin and piano by Ciprian Porumbescu and features a series of short works that deconstruct the Romania ballad while remaining true to the Doina folk tradition of melancholy, longing (dor), erotic feelings and love.

Roumania Song Cycle 2 for piano and double bass
Bernard Oglesby: Composer and arranger.
Anton Heart: Piano.
Double Bass: Mihai Neculai


Roumania Song cycle No 2 for Piano and Double Bass

Bernard Oglesby (Roumania)
12th song cycle (From Death) for 2 pianos 

Composer: Bernard Oglesby.
Piano: Marracha Ward/Anton Heart
Recorded in Germany 2013.

Roumania marks the 6th studio album to be released by the British artist Bernard Oglesby in 2015 on the Bauer label. The work, 5 years in the making, explores the haunting Ballad for violin and piano by Ciprian Porumbescu and features a series of short works that deconstruct the Romania ballad while remaining true to the Doina folk tradition of melancholy, longing (dor), erotic feelings and love.

Roumania 12th song cycle (From Death) for 2 pianos

Bernard Oglesby Press Release

Mefkure Orchestral Work composed by Bernard Oglesby.

The Mefkure orchestral work is the second classical release composed by the British Artist Bernard Oglesby. The work forms part of a trilogy of orchestral pieces focused around the extraordinary poems of the Romanian poet O. Nimigean.

The Mefkure Orchestral work explores the "The Night Sea Journey" as a parallel to a kind of "descensus ad inferos" (Harrowing of Hell). It features Ayer Ontak and Mihai Neculai on violin and cello and Bernard Oglesby on piano and percussion. The work comprises of 5 movements that chart the embarkation on August 5, 1944 of the Turkish motor-schooner Mefkure as it set sail from the Romanian port of Constanta bound for Istanbul and Palestine. It carried over 300 passengers, mostly Jews looking to escape from Romania, Hungary and Poland. Twenty-five miles northeast of Igneada, Turkey, in the Bosporus, the schooner was attacked with gunfire and torpedoes. The survivors were machine-gunned whilst struggling in the water. Only 11 survived.

The work’s focused atmosphere, shape of sound and tactile structure eco the vast diaspora - movement, migration and scattering of people away from an ancestral homeland. Oglesby's preparatory research into Romanian folk songs and traditional instruments sets the tenor and undertone of the score, with some of the instrumentation being specially prepared and detuned to create particular pitch, voicing and register. The work is released on the Ontak Studio label and will be distributed by AWAL Digital Limited in November 2012.


The Night Journey

Bernard Oglesby Press Release

Mefkure Orchestral Work composed by Bernard Oglesby.

The Mefkure orchestral work is the second classical release composed by the British Artist Bernard Oglesby. The work forms part of a trilogy of orchestral pieces focused around the extraordinary poems of the Romanian poet O. Nimigean.

The Mefkure Orchestral work explores the "The Night Sea Journey" as a parallel to a kind of "descensus ad inferos" (Harrowing of Hell). It features Ayer Ontak and Mihai Neculai on violin and cello and Bernard Oglesby on piano and percussion. The work comprises of 5 movements that chart the embarkation on August 5, 1944 of the Turkish motor-schooner Mefkure as it set sail from the Romanian port of Constanta bound for Istanbul and Palestine. It carried over 300 passengers, mostly Jews looking to escape from Romania, Hungary and Poland. 


Twenty-five miles northeast of Igneada, Turkey, in the Bosporus, the schooner was attacked with gunfire and torpedoes. The survivors were machine-gunned whilst struggling in the water. Only 11 survived.

The work’s focused atmosphere, shape of sound and tactile structure eco the vast diaspora - movement, migration and scattering of people away from an ancestral homeland. Oglesby's preparatory research into Romanian folk songs and traditional instruments sets the tenor and undertone of the score, with some of the instrumentation being specially prepared and detuned to create particular pitch, voicing and register. The work is released on the Ontak Studio label and will be distributed by AWAL Digital Limited in November 2012.


Black Sea

Departe: Piano, Cellos and Animoog Synth (7.30)
Piano Bernard Oglesby
Animoog Synth Bernard Oglesby
Cello Ayer Ontak/Mihai Neculai

Ar trebui: Cello , Violin, Viola and Voice (8.40)
Cello Ayer Ontak/Mihai Neculai
Violin Mihai Neculai
Voice Bernard Oglesby

Moartea-nu: Cello and Voice (6.00)
Cello Ayer Ontak/Mihai Neculai Voice Bernard Oglesby

Recorded at the Ayer Ontak Studios 2012

Available as a download from digital Stores world wide, including Itunes. Hardcopy Cds available from music stores worldwide and info@bernardoglesby.com


Departe forms part of an extensive body of orchestral and film works based in part on the extraordinary poems of O. Nimigean.

O. Nimigean is a poet, novelist, and critic — one of the major voices of contemporary Romanian literature. His style is praised for its freshness, versatility and chameleonic variety, while his wide range of registers and forms span pastiche, satire, profane experiments with reshaping the sonnet, ballad, love-song, and elegy.﻿

Departe


Departe: Piano, Cellos and Animoog Synth (7.30)
Piano Bernard Oglesby
Animoog Synth Bernard Oglesby
Cello Ayer Ontak/Mihai Neculai

Ar trebui: Cello , Violin, Viola and Voice (8.40)
Cello Ayer Ontak/Mihai Neculai
Violin Mihai Neculai
Voice Bernard Oglesby

Moartea-nu: Cello and Voice (6.00)
Cello Ayer Ontak/Mihai Neculai Voice Bernard Oglesby

Recorded at the Ayer Ontak Studios 2012

Available as a download from digital Stores world wide, including Itunes. Hardcopy Cds available from music stores worldwide and info@bernardoglesby.com


Departe forms part of an extensive body of orchestral and film works based in part on the extraordinary poems of O. Nimigean.

O. Nimigean is a poet, novelist, and critic — one of the major voices of contemporary Romanian literature. His style is praised for its freshness, versatility and chameleonic variety, while his wide range of registers and forms span pastiche, satire, profane experiments with reshaping the sonnet, ballad, love-song, and elegy.﻿

 



Ar trebui

Departe: Piano, Cellos and Animoog Synth (7.30)
Piano Bernard Oglesby
Animoog Synth Bernard Oglesby
Cello Ayer Ontak/Mihai Neculai

Ar trebui: Cello , Violin, Viola and Voice (8.40)
Cello Ayer Ontak/Mihai Neculai
Violin Mihai Neculai
Voice Bernard Oglesby

Moartea-nu: Cello and Voice (6.00)
Cello Ayer Ontak/Mihai Neculai Voice Bernard Oglesby

Recorded at the Ayer Ontak Studios 2012

Soon to be available as a download from digital Stores world wide, including Itunes. Hardcopy Cds available from music stores worldwide and info@bernardoglesby.com


Departe forms part of an extensive body of orchestral and film works based in part on the extraordinary poems of O. Nimigean.

O. Nimigean is a poet, novelist, and critic — one of the major voices of contemporary Romanian literature. His style is praised for its freshness, versatility and chameleonic variety, while his wide range of registers and forms span pastiche, satire, profane experiments with reshaping the sonnet, ballad, love-song, and elegy.﻿

 



Moartea-nu

Torah, to be released on the Ontak label in May 2013 marks the solo piano works composed by the British artist Bernard Oglesby. Oglesby's work pays direct homage to Erik Satie's The Gymnopédies which he states remains one of the most haunting and compellingly beautiful works of art he has ever experienced. Like Satie he placed great emphasis on Contamine de Latourr's poem Les Antiques ("The Ancients").

Black Mirror

Bernard Oglesby Jannah (Paradise) Pre-release

Jannah marks the 4th studio album composed by the British artist Bernard Oglesby to be released in July 2013 on the Ontak Label. The work in 5 movements explores the concept of original sin and the concupiscence orientation of humankind to long for and desire human physical intimacy. The works represents a profound sea change in Oglesby's production methods as the piece was composed entirely using an iPhone and recorded using a bank of iPads and 5 musicians.

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