Huw Wiggin – Nicholas Simpson: Fastness (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:18 minutes | 623 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © MPR
Fastness is a disc of orchestral music by Nicholas Simpson, who read law at Nottingham University, played guitar in rock bands, and then studied composition with John Tavener at Trinity College of Music, where he won the Chappell Prize for composition and the Ricordi Prize for conducting. Simpson practised as a criminal layer in London, but quit to be a professional musician on moving back to Manchester in 1998. His music has been widely played both in the UK and abroad, his output including three symphonies, a piano concerto, chamber music, an oratorio and Quarantine, an opera based on Jim Crace’s 1995 Booker-shortlisted novel of the same name.
Tracklist:
1-1. Manchester Camerata – He Was Despised (Variations on a Theme of Handel): I. Theme (01:07)
1-2. Manchester Camerata – He Was Despised (Variations on a Theme of Handel): II. Grandioso (02:13)
1-3. Manchester Camerata – He Was Despised (Variations on a Theme of Handel): III. Variation II. Andante mesto e rubato (02:32)
1-4. Manchester Camerata – He Was Despised (Variations on a Theme of Handel): IV. Variation III (01:46)
1-5. Manchester Camerata – He Was Despised (Variations on a Theme of Handel): V. Variation IV. Siciliana (01:26)
1-6. Manchester Camerata – He Was Despised (Variations on a Theme of Handel): I. Theme (01:21)
1-7. Manchester Camerata – He Was Despised (Variations on a Theme of Handel): VII. Variation VI (02:09)
1-8. Manchester Camerata – He Was Despised (Variations on a Theme of Handel): VIII. Variation VII (02:03)
1-9. Manchester Camerata – He Was Despised (Variations on a Theme of Handel): IX. Variation VIII. Allegro corragioso (02:59)
1-10. Huw Wiggin – Fastness (19:17)
1-11. Manchester Camerata – Bachianas Mancuniensis: I. Prelude (01:43)
1-12. Manchester Camerata – Bachianas Mancunensis: II. Allemande (02:24)
1-13. Manchester Camerata – Bachianas Mancuniensis: III. Courante (02:51)
1-14. Manchester Camerata – Bachianas Mancuniensis: IV. Sarabande (03:19)
1-15. Manchester Camerata – Bachianas Mancuniensis: V. Gigue (02:44)
1-16. Manchester Camerata – I. Angelus (03:36)
1-17. Manchester Camerata – Little Suite: II. Sorrow (05:34)
1-18. Manchester Camerata – Little Suite: III. Home (04:07)
