NEW ON NAXOS | JULY 2022
INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
8.559915 Release Date: 08 Jul 2022
Peter Boyer © Benjamin Ealovega
DISCOVER
Peter BOYER (b. 1970) Orchestral Works Balance of Power * Curtain Raiser * • Fanfare for Tomorrow * Rolling River • Elegy * 1 • In the Cause of the Free 2 Radiance * • Fanfare, Hymn and Finale * Christine Pendrill, English horn 1 Bryn Lewis, Harp 1
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Key Features: •
This is the third album of Peter Boyer’s music to appear in our American Classics series, following on from his popular Ellis Island: The Dream of America (8.559246), and his First Symphony (8.559769), which was admired in Gramophone for ‘a fluent, powerful style that fuses conservative American currents with Hollywood-ish size and populist sentiment’, and summed up by ClassicsToday.com as ‘lots of fun, and a really good listen’. This programme, with its wide range of commissions for a variety of high-profile purposes and personalities, has at least as much appeal as that of the previous albums, and with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) as a guarantee of the highest quality of musicianship this will be a release to attract wide audiences. • The LSO is known for acquiring loyal audiences during successful tours and residencies in New York, Paris and Tokyo, and as Resident Orchestra of the Barbican Centre in London it reaches a huge public with around 70 concerts every year. This new release joins an already substantial and highly successful catalogue for the LSO on the Naxos label.
James Fountain, Trumpet 2 London Symphony Orchestra Peter Boyer * WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
This album presents eight of the most recent works by Peter Boyer, one of the leading American orchestral composers of his generation. Balance of Power was commissioned for the 95th birthday of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, while Fanfare for Tomorrow was composed for the inauguration of President Joe Biden in 2021. Each of these pieces displays Boyer’s vivid soundscapes and tuneful American sensibilities, from the cinematic sweep of Rolling River to Radiance , composed especially for this album. Boyer’s GRAMMY- nominated Ellis Island: The Dream of America (8.559246) has received over 250 performances and was televised by PBS. About Peter Boyer, Composer and Conductor Peter Boyer is one of the most frequently performed American orchestral composers of his generation. His works have received over 600 public performances by more than 200 orchestras, and tens of thousands of broadcasts by classical radio stations around the US and abroad. He has conducted recordings of his music with three of the world’s finest orchestras: the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Boyer’s GRAMMY-nominated Ellis Island: The Dream of America has become one of the most performed American orchestral works of recent years, with 250 performances by more than 100 orchestras. In 2017, Ellis Island was filmed in concert with Pacific Symphony (conductor Carl St.Clair), and a cast of stage and screen actors for PBS’ Great Performances, America’s preeminent performing arts television series.
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