Richard Blackford: Mirror Of Perfection

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Label: NIMBUS
Catalog: NIM6205
Format: CD

Mirror of Perfection & Choral Anthems

Blackford: Mirror of Perfection Ying Huang (soprano) & Bo Skovhus (baritone) Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Ballard Lane Preparatory School Choir & Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Richard Blackford A Westminster Te Deum Olivia Robinson (solo soprano) & Iain Farrington (organ) BBC Singers, David Hill On Another’s Sorrow Olivia Robinson (solo soprano) & Iain Farrington (organ) BBC Singers, David Hill I Know That My Redeemer Liveth Olivia Robinson (solo soprano) & Iain Farrington (organ) BBC Singers, David Hill From The Song of Songs Olivia Robinson (solo soprano) & Iain Farrington (organ) BBC Singers, David Hill A Lullaby of the Nativity Olivia Robinson (solo soprano) & Iain Farrington (organ) BBC Singers, David Hill I Will Sing To The Lord Olivia Robinson (solo soprano) & Iain Farrington (organ) BBC Singers, David Hill

Richard Blackford is one of the pre-eminent concert and media composers of the UK. His music has been performed and broadcast all over the world and has been featured in the Adelaide, Cork, Montepulciano, Brighton, Cheltenham, Long Island and Berlin Festivals. His feature film credits include City of Joy, Prometheus and Song for a Raggy Boy, the latter winning eleven international film festival awards. He is the most performed media composer in Germany, having over one hundred and forty drama feature credits to his name for ZDF alone. UK TV credits include the acclaimed BBC BAFTA-nominated drama Fingersmith, A Little Bit of Lippy, Summer Solstice, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, 1940s House, Family, Finding Sarah, Preston Front and Shell Seekers, starring Vanessa Redgrave. In 2008 Richard was appointed the first ever Composer in Association with the Brno Philharmonic, who gave the world premiere of his Violin Concerto. Both of his critically acclaimed choral works Mirror of Perfection and Voices of Exile were the subjects of television documentaries and have been frequently broadcast on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3. September 2011 saw the premiere of another major choral work Not In Our Time, commissioned for the Centenary of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, at the Cheltenham Music Festival. It was subsequently performed to great acclaim in Chicago in 2012.

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