Geoffrey Gordon Composer

This is the recording of the premiere of composer Geoffrey Gordon's bass clarinet concerto, Prometheus, featuring the Philharmonia Orchestra, from Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, with conductor Martyn Brabbins and soloist Laurent Ben Slimane, recorded 19 January 2019. This work was co-commissioned by the Philharmonia, the Minnesota Orchestra and the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. PROGRAM...

This is the studio recording of Geoffrey Gordon's ICE - aut inveniam viam aut faciam, from Mythologies and Mad Songs, on the Orchid Classics label, recorded in Glasgow, featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Martyn Brabbins from 4 October 2022. "....a massive meditation on Arctic exploration that places a very human sense of struggle in a powerfully evoked world of grinding...

This is the live performance of Geoffrey Gordon's Crucifixus for double choir and solo cello, from the Presteigne Festival, Wales, UK - featuring the Choir of Royal Holloway, conductor Rupert Gough and cellist Alice Neary, principal cello of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, within the confines of the 13th century Anglican Priory Church in Leominster, Herefordshire, England, 25 August 2024. TEX...

This is the Asian premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's Fumée for Bb clarinet and chamber orchestra, with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, conductor Christoph Poppen and soloist Horácio Ferreira, from HK City Hall Concert Hall, Hong Kong, 29 June 2024, taken from the album Fumée, now available worldwide on Neuma Records. https://neumarecords.hearnow.com/geoffrey-gordon-fumée PROGRAM NOTE: Immersed in the magica...

This is a the premiere performance of Exposure for solo violin, by composer Geoffrey Gordon, featuring soloist Elisabeth Kufferath for whom the work was commissioned by the Freundeskreises Hauskonzert Musik für heute e. V.,as part of Musik 21 Lower Saxony. The premiere performance took place at the Calder Saal at the Sprengel Art Museum, Hannover, Germany – 14 November 2021. PROGRAM NOTE: Inspired...

This is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.

This is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.

This is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.

This is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.

This is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.

This is the studio recording of composer Geoffrey Gordon's orchestral work, PUCK - fleeing from the dawn, from the new Orchid Classics CD, Mythologies and Mad Songs - featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Martyn Brabbins. This work is inspired by the painting of the same name by Scottish artist, David Scott (1837). The recording was made in Glasgow, 3-4 October 2022, with pro...

This is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.

This is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.

This is an excerpt of the first movement of Geoffrey Gordon's Creavit Deus Hominem, for oboe and orchestra, from the world premiere performance by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Duncan Ward and soloist José Luis García Vegara, for whom the orchestra commissioned the new work, which is inspired by the Synchromism art movement of the early 20th c. Performance: Hr-Sendesaal, Frankf...

This is the live premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's la terre est bleue comme une orange No. 2 (the earth is blue like an orange) - a work for string quartet inspired by French surrealist poet Paul Eluard's iconic poem. This work was commissioned by the San Francisco-based Friction Quartet and the premieres took place on 23 and 24 September 2022 at Noe Valley Ministry and Ruth Bancroft Garde...

This is a performance of Geoffrey Gordon's Quintettsatz (drawn from his QUINTET for clarinet and strings) given by Ensemble De Sono Futura, Turin, Italy - 8 March 2017.

This is the world premiere performance of the two trumpet version of Geoffrey Gordon's He Saith Among the Trumpets, with Paul Merkelo, solo trumpet, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Stéphane Beaulac, principal trumpet, Orchestre Métropolitain - with percussionist Josh Wynnyk - recorded at Maison Symphonique, Montréal Quebec, 22 April 2021. This work, originally for solo trumpet in C, was comm...

This is a studio recording of composer Geoffrey Gordon's new work for tenor trombone and piano, Vermilion, after the painting by Henri Matisse, with soloist Yu Tamaki Hoso and pianist Kosuke Akimoto, recorded in Tokyo, 28 August 2021. PROGRAM NOTES: "I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish" said renowned French artist, Henri Matisse (1869-1954), whose predilection for exploring and using...

This is a live recording of composer Geoffrey Gordon's work for solo harp, Jeux de Création, commissioned for Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra principal harp, Anne-Sophie Bertrand. The studio recording of this work will be released on the Naxos label (the CD will also be called Jeux de Création) in October 2021. PROGRAM NOTES: Jeux de Création, for solo harp, takes inspiration from the aesthetic...

Horn soloist Tommi Hyytinen (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra), mezzo soprano Niina Keitel and pianist Marko Hilpo give the European premiere of composer Geoffrey Gordon's chamber vocal work, Winterleben, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland - Monday, 7 June 2021 . Winterleben is a song cycle setting five texts, in German, by Mahler's favorite poet, Friedrich Rückert, for mezzo, horn and p...

Horn soloist Tommi Hyytinen (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra), mezzo soprano Niina Keitel and pianist Marko Hilpo give the European premiere of composer Geoffrey Gordon's chamber vocal work, Winterleben, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland - Monday, 7 June 2021 . Winterleben is a song cycle setting five texts, in German, by Mahler's favorite poet, Friedrich Rückert, for mezzo, horn and p...

GORDON: Roman Rituals for solo horn Saar Berger, horn - Ensemble Modern PROGRAM NOTES:  The flame is a reminder of Pentecost when witnesses were unified by the power of the Holy Spirit and saw "tongues, as of fire" (Acts 2:3).  Pentecost comes from a Jewish harvest festival called Shavuot. The apostles were celebrating this festival when the Holy Spirit descended on them. It sounded like a very...

This is a live recording of Geoffrey Gordon's new work for piano trio, Ewelme 1475 ... a work responding to the plague of 1471-1475. Below is the program note from the score: "According to the chronicle of the grey friars at King's Lynn, the plague arrived by ship from Gascony to Melcombe in Dorset– today normally referred to as Weymouth – shortly before the Feast of St. John The Baptist on 24 Jun...

This is the world premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's Aphrodite and Eros (fighting off the advances of Pan), for violin and cello, with violinist Yuri Revich and cellist Benedict Klöckner, from the International Music Festival Koblenz 2020 (IMUKO). This work is inspired by a sculpture dating from ca. 100 BC, from Delos, now housed in the Exhibition Room of the National Archaeological Museum...

This is an excerpt of the world premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's Peter Quince at the Clavier, for baritone and piano - a setting of the Wallace Stevens poem - from the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna - 16 March 2018. Baritone Tobias Greenhalgh and pianist Marcin Koziel perform. PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER Wallace Stevens I. Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the selfsame s...