Also available on CD - TIMOTHY REYNISH CONDUCTING: VOL 1 - UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WIND ENSEMBLE 4949-MCD Samurai (1995) . Nigel Clarke United Kingdom Diaghilev Dances (2003) . Kenneth Hesketh United Kingdom Danse Funambulesque (1930) . Jules Strens Belgium L’Homme Armé (2003) . Christopher Marshall New Zealand Concerto for Wind Orchestra (2003) . Christian Lindberg Sweden VOL 2 - UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WIND ENSEMBLE 5347-MCD Dances from Crete (2003) . Adam Gorb United Kingdom Gran Duo (2000) . Magnus Lindberg Finland Awake, You Sleepers (2002) . Laurence Bitensky USA Per la Flor del Lliri Blau (1934) . Joaquin Rodrigo Spain VOL 3 - ITHACA COLLEGE SYMPHONIC BAND 6733-MCD King Pomade Suite no 2 (1953) . Ranki Gyorgy Hungary Elegy for Miles Davis (1993) . Richard Rodney Bennett UK/USA Symphony of Winds (1981 . Derek Bourgeois UK Blackwater (2006) . Fergal Carroll Ireland Tails aus dem Voods Viennoise (1992) . Bill Connor Wales VOL 4 - ITHACA COLLEGE WIND ENSEMBLE 6804-MCD Improvisations-Rhythms (1975) . Andreas Makris Greece/USA Reflections (2000) . Richard Rodney Bennett UK/USA L’Homme Armé (2003) . Christopher Marshall New Zealand Resonance (2006) . Christopher Marshall New Zealand Dances from Crete (2003) . Adam Gorb United Kingdom Marsch (1981) . Marcel Wengler Luxembourg THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ORCHESTRA CHAN 9549 Percy Grainger Works for Wind Orchestra Volume 1 CHAN 9630 Percy Grainger Works for Wind Orchestra Volume 2 CHAN 9697 British Wind Band Classics, Holst & Vaughan Williams CHAN 9805 German Wind Band Classics, Hindemith, Schoenberg, Toch & Blacher CHAN 9897 French Wind Band Classics, Berlioz, Schmitt, Milhaud, Bozza & Saint-Saens DOYCD 037 Morning Music - Midnight Music:Richard Rodney Bennett & Irwin Bazelon DOYCD 043 Wind Music by Edward Gregson DOYCD 127 Wind music by Judith Bingham, Adam Gorb and Roger Marsh KLAV 11152 Wind music by Nigel Clarke, Adam Gorb, Martin Ellerby & Geoffrey Poole More information on Timothy Reynish visit www.timreynish.com For info on recordings of WASBE Conferences in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 go to www.markcustom.com INTRODUCTION Professor in Woodwind and Brass at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and conducted the Wind Ensemble in a gala concert at the Barbican, celebrating the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Guildhall. In the Spring of 2006 he was visiting DEVELOPING AN INTERNATIONAL REPERTOIRE Professor at Ithaca College, in the Spring of 2009 visiting Professor at Cornell University. His appearances in the USA have included conducting engagements at Universities of Arizona State, Bowling Green, Timothy Reynish writes: Colorado, Connecticut, Florida State, Illinois, Iowa State, Ithaca College, Louisville, Michigan, Michigan State, Murray State, Syracuse, This is the fifth CD in my repertoire series aimed at making a wide range of international non-commercial repertoire better Stetson, Tennessee Tech, Texas at Austin, Texas Christian, Western Kentucky, Vanderbilt and Western Michigan. known; it is the first which is a compilation of music drawn from concerts with different ensembles, recorded between 1998 and 2008. www.timreynish.com A CELEBRATION Of the six works on this disc, I have commissioned or published five, the odd one out being Adam Gorb’s exuberant TIMOTHY REYNISH ALSO CONDUCTS THESE FINE ENSEMBLES: Adrenaline City, commissioned by the US Military; these recordings are being released as a triple celebration of the 75th birthday in 2010 of Aulis Sallinen, of the award-winning works of Adam Gorb, and of British wind music of the past quarter of a century. 8477-MCD ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ORCHESTRA, (UK) CLARK RUNDELL, TIMOTHY REYNISH, MARK HERON AULIS SALLINEN Coogee Funk/Higgins - Deep Soul Diving/Howard - The Gilded Theatre/Hesketh - Kerala Reverie/Ward The Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen is one of the leading composers of his generation in the world today, and has - Wasteland Wind Music/McNeff - Tranquility/Gorb frequently been hailed as the natural successor to Jan Sibelius, but with eight symphonies, six operas, more than fourteen concertante works, chamber and choral music, his music covers a far wider range than his illustrious compatriot. The Palace 8469-MCD ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ORCHESTRA, (UK) Rhapsody was written in 1996 in response to a joint commission from the Royal Northern College of Music and the College Band CLARK RUNDELL, TIMOTHY REYNISH, MARK HERON Directors National Association. Toccata Marziale/Vaughan Williams - An Elegy for Ur/Roxburgh ADAM GORB 7211-MCD IRISH YOUTH WIND SYMPHONY On December 1st 2009, The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors declared Adam Gorb winner of the JAMES CAVANAGH & TIMOTHY REYNISH, CONDUCTORS award for the best Wind work in the year, the third time in five years; his Adrenaline City was the winner of this award in 2008 Trumpet Concerto (I. Senza Sordino, II. Intermezzo Lirico, III. Rondo in Modo Classico)/K. Lendvay - Vranjanka/K. Hesketh - and is the final piece on this compilation. Prelude and Toccata/J. Kinsella - Image in Stone (I. Image in Stone (A Greek Grave stele from the first century A.D.), II. Death Be Not Proud, III. Song, IV. On the Beach at Night)/S. McNeff - Samurai/N. Clarke BRITISH WIND MUSIC When I first went to the USA as a Churchill Fellow researching wind band and wind ensemble music in 1983, H. Robert Reynolds gave me advice on developing repertoire: TIMOTHY REYNISH CLINIC FROM 2006 MIDWEST CLINIC All we can do is to make it better for the next generations. 6787-MCD "The British Are Coming!" Great literature from Great Britain -Clinic Since the founding of WASBE and BASBWE in 1981, I have commissioned or published over one hundred works at every level of difficulty to try to make it better for the next generations. This disc is a small tribute to the dozens of composers and their TIMOTHY REYNISH TRANSCRIPTIONS CAN BE FOUND ON THESE RECORDINGS: publishers who have contributed new works to this vibrant and exciting repertoire. I was delighted in the eighties to be able to publish the charming song settings of Buxton Orr in A John Gay Suite, followed 5002-MCD TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-COMMERCE WIND ENSEMBLE by The Palace Rhapsody. I commissioned Adam Gorb’s witty Symphony No 1 in C in 2000 for a fortieth birthday party, (the BRADLEY N. KENT, CONDUCTOR frequent stops in the scherzo and trio are aimed at catching out and embarrassing guests who were talking). Matthew Taylor’s Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare/R. Strauss - Occident et Orient, Op. 25/C. Saint-Saëns/ed. T. Reynish/B. Perry - Black Dog/S. Blasket Dances and Kenneth Hesketh’s Vranjanka are both part of the William Reynish commissioning series which started in McAllister - Fest Marsch from Tannhäuser/R. Wagner/trans. R.W. Rumbelow - O Magnum Mysterium/M. Laudridsen/trans. H.R. 2001, and the disc ends with Adam Gorb’s virtuoso Adrenaline City, a kind of son of his Awayday. Reynolds - Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H)/R. Nelson 2 11 TIMOTHY REYNISH TODAY’S DILEMMA – WE CAN’T UNPICK THE 20TH CENTURY Timothy Reynish has emerged as one of the leading conductors of wind bands and wind ensembles in the world. In the In programming I look for emotion in music; I try to balance moods and styles, to provide contrast, to give players and past few years he has conducted many of the principal professional bands in Asia, Europe, North and South America; these include audiences points of reference, to match works and to draw on an international repertoire. I try to choose pieces which will civilian bands such as Dallas Wind Symphony, State of São Paulo Symphonic Band, Brazil, Volga Wind Orchestra of Saratov, Russia, challenge the players and their audiences in four ways, emotionally, musically, intellectually and technically, pieces which Cordoba Symphonic Band, Argentina, Philharmonic Winds, Singapore, and leading military bands including the “President’s Own” acknowledge developments of the past hundred years but which maintain contact with the public. It is very tempting for US Marine Band, Staff Band of the Norwegian Army, US Military Academy West Point, Singapore Armed Forces Band, Croatian conductors, players and audiences to turn to well-tried pieces which provide safe listening. Army Symphonic Wind Orchestra Zagreb, Hungarian Army Symphonic Band Budapest, Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, and the Band of the Royal Marines, Portsmouth. The late Sir Michael Tippett once wrote: He comes to the wind world via a thorough grounding in orchestral music and opera, having studied horn with Aubrey We all know that the big public is extremely conservative and is willing to ring the changes on a few beloved Brain and Frank Probyn and been a member of the National Youth Orchestra for six years. He was a music scholar at Cambridge, works till the end of time, and that our concert life, through the taste of this public, suffers from a kind of inertia of working under Raymond Leppard and Sir David Willcocks and held principal horn positions with the Northern Sinfonia, Sadler’s sensibility, that seems to want no musical experience whatever beyond what it already knows.....Surely the matter is Wells Opera (now ENO) and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra His conducting studies were on short courses with that the very big public masses together in a kind of dead passion of mediocrity, and that this blanket of mediocrity George Hurst at Canford Summer School, Sir Charles Groves and Sir Adrian Boult, with Dean Dixon in Hilversum and Franco is deeply offended by any living passion of the unusual, the rare, the rich, the exuberant, the heroic and the Ferrara in Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, where he won the Diploma of Merit. A prize winner in the Mitropoulos aristocratic in art. International Conducting Competition in New York, he has conducted concerts with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the BBC Regional Orchestras and the London Symphony A leading British composer, Diana Burrell, spoke of her perception of the job of a composer: Orchestra as well as in Norway, Holland and Germany, and opera in Sweden.