Jonathan Powell: David Hackbridge Johnson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 - COMPACT DISCS

Jonathan Powell: David Hackbridge Johnson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

David Hackbridge Johnson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4

Artist:

Jonathan Powell

Label:

Toccata

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5060113448033

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-06-05

Number of Discs:

1

David Hackbridge Johnson, born near London in 1963, is an all-round musician - not only a prolific composer but also a conductor, violinist, singer, pianist, jazz drummer and poet. Both works in this album, recorded under the baton of the composer, have extra-musical stimuli. The Piano Concerto evokes the Kafkaesque fantasy world and tragic fate of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz, a victim of Nazi oppression - and it also marks the early death of another uniquely gifted individual, since it was written for Jonathan Powell, whose last recording it became. The Symphony, taking it's lead from earlier composers like Bax, Britten and Vaughan Williams, is a response to the English landscape, as seen through the paintings of a number of artists whose work Hackbridge Johnson esteems - it's colours and moods changing as kaleidoscopically as nature itself.

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