Fantastic harmonies and orchestration ... very impressive! It's pure joy listing to this piece ...

really great piece! the orchestration and harmonies are really fantastic. I am located in malvern and so this is rather special for me

The divine nature lighting up the sky with soaring anticipations of joy and hope for… the next magnum opus, residing where its’ true self lives and dwells with pleasure ( סֶלָה Psalm 82:6)  above the wings that spawn the uplift.  I rejoice with you from exile.

I just love this composition so very much. The picture of the composer flying kites is so atypical, the lyrics are so fun and yet so deeply romantic. It makes Edward Elgar so approachable, you know, like when we were kids. Thank you again so much for composing this beautiful, joyous musical masterpiece.

HuiJin, you have a complete spirit melt here with the musik and the story and your voice is absolutely perfect and beautiful! Thank you so much!

A short film for Kites Over Malvern can now be found on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXw3XPWpkmg

what a lovely beginning! Very lovely recording too!

Amazing music one of the best I hear in years

NOW AVAILABLE ON iTUNES AND AMAZON.

Please follow the following link to see Kites Over Malvern, the short film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXw3XPWpkmg

Hui Jin (tenor), Brno Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mikel Toms.

Music by Andrew Webb-Mitchell
Words by Joanna Boulter

“In Songs of Awe and Wonder, Andrew Webb-Mitchell has created a stunning set of symphonic songs on a grand scale. The music is full of passion and heroism, with glorious harmony and beautiful textures. The orchestration is beautifully detailed and the vocal writing creates a soaring line that carries the listener right through the vast canvas of the cycle. The work is dedicated to Mahler but, although the scale of the work is comparable to a Mahlerian song cycle, the music is in no way derivative and Andrew Webb-Mitchell has his own unique style and sound-world.”

Tasmin Little, violinist

Kites Over Malvern pays tribute to the English composer Edward Elgar, depicting him pursuing his passion for flying kites over the Malvern Hills. As he stands on the hillside, the kites are reeling in the cosmic symphony that he feels all around. He watches the kites soaring skywards and holds himself in readiness to transcribe this enigmatic artistry.

One of the pre-eminent musical figures of his time, Elgar bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as the finest English composer since the days of Handel and Purcell. Elgar's most fruitful period was the first decade of the twentieth century, during which he wrote some of his noblest, most expressive music, including the Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55 (1907-1908), and the Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 (1909-1910). His best-known works from this period, however, are the first four of his Pomp and Circumstance Marches (1901-1907); the first of these, subtitled "Land of Hope and Glory," became an unofficial second national anthem for the British Empire.

Kites Over Malvern offers a glimpse of the man in his earlier years before public recognition, drawing inspiration from his love of the open countryside and consolation for his artistic isolation.

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Kites Over Malvern - Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikel Toms

Classical Composer and Director of the British Schools Foundation Choral Programme in China.

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