Indra Hughes brings a personal approach to Summer Sonic with a strong West Auckland thread, where this Lancashire lad now lives.
This programme includes a beautiful bassoon concerto by Capel Bond, Indra’s eighteenth-century predecessor as Organist of Holy Trinity, Coventry, which was his first job after University. Ben Hoadley talks about his 2013 composition 'Huia' which is a depiction of the beautiful location where Indra lives, and there’s a recording of the première of that piece played by the APO with a link to a video of that performance. And he includes his recommendation for the best recording of the Saint-Saens’ Organ Symphony.
Passamezzo Moderno by Diego Ortiz performed by More Hispano
Ben Hoadley: Huia - APO with Indra Hughes,organist conducted by Hamish McKeich
Video by Chris Watson for SOUNZ (with permission)
Music Details:
ORTIZ: Passamezzo Moderno - More Hispano/Parrilla (rec & dir) (Carpe Diem CD-16279)
ELGAR orch Gordon Jacob: Movt 1, from Organ Sonata (orchestral version) – BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Hickox (Chandos CHSA 5049)
Madeleine DRING: movt 2, from Trio for flute, oboe & piano – Nancy Ruffer (fl), John Anderson (ob), Helen Crayford (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7181)
BOND: Bassoon Concerto No 6 - Sally Jackson (bsn), The Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra/Goodman & Holman (Hyperion CDA 66467)
MONACO/BURKE: This is my night to dream - Mel Tormé (vocals), orchestra/Broadbent (Concord CCD-4614)
SAINT-SAENS: Movt 4, from Organ Symphony - Wayne Mashall (org), Oslo PO/Jansons (EMI 7243 5 55184 2 2)
ALBINONI: Movt 2, from Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 – Paul Goodwin (ob), The King’s Consort/King (Hyperion CDA 66383)
ANON: Dum pater familias – New London Consort/Pickett (L’Oiseau-Lyre 436 445)
SAMMARTINI: Movt 3, Organ Concerto in B flat Op 9/4 – La Risonanza/Fabio Bonizzoni (org & dir) (Glossa GCD 921 505)
Ben HOADLEY: Huia - Indra Hughes (org), APO/McKeich (RNZ)
BACH: Prelude & Bourée 1 & 2, from Cello Suite No 3 BWV 1009 – Pieter Wispelwey (cello)
(Channel CCS 12298)
FINZI: Eclogue – Piers Lane (pno), Royal Liverpool PO/Handley (EMI 7243 5 65742)
ORTIZ: Passamezzo Moderno - More Hispano/Parrilla (rec & dir) (Carpe Diem CD-16279)