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Adrian Williams writes InchMy first symphony began it's life during the spring of 2018 following a request from Kenneth Woods for a work for the English Symphony Orchestra's 21st Century Symphony Project. The basic score was completed towards the end of the following year but continued to undergo quite a few changes almost until it's recording in December 2021. The symphony, which is dedicated to Kenneth Woods 'for giving me hope' is one of my largest-scale pieces. Am hugely grateful to Ken Woods and the ESO for their tremendous dedication, and to the generosity of the Steven R Gerber Trust in the USA for their sponsorship of this performance.Inch This remarkable work is one of two by Williams to grow from his friendship with the great Australian painter, Sidney Nolan. Nolan and Williams were neighbors in the Welsh Borders region that Williams has called home for most of the last forty years. Williams, a prolific pianist, was given the invitation to use the piano at The Rodd, Nolan's house in northwest Herefordshire and now the home of the Sidney Nolan Trust. The Chamber Concerto is a musical response to Nolan's most famous series of paintings, which depict scenes from the wild life of Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly, an outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer who rampaged across Australia in the years prior to his arrest and execution in 1880. Williams' music almost always has a virtuosic edge to it, but the demands placed on the musicians in this work are truly extraordinary, yet it is incredibly rewarding to play. In this sense, Williams' designation of the work as a concerto is both telling and apt is it demands that everyone in the ensemble contributes their utmost in rhythmic precision, agility, accuracy in extremes of register and lyrical storytelling.

During lockdown, Bevis Frond frontman Nick Saloman, having little else to do, found himself writing loads of songs. Some were used on the Fronds Little Eden' album, many were discarded, and some were kept with a view of doing something with them in the future. Nick felt that a batch of these songs were pretty good, but not really suitable for The Bevis Frond, maybe being a bit too punky. However, wanting to record these songs, he called up his mate Tony Page, the former lead singer with vintage punk bands The Ploy and Apocalypse, to see if he fancied doing some vocals. Tony was only to pleased to take part. Then Nick asked bandmate Paul Simmons if he'd do all the guitar parts.. So what do we have here then? I guess it's a loud, angry, melodic, wry punk rock album full of great tunes. Hope you 'love it', and if you don't, well, that's life1. Love It 2. Elephant Flu 3. Calling Miss Euphemia Hawkshaw 4. The Rest Is Silence 5. Mess It Up 6. Speechless 7. The Search Goes On 8. Nwobhm Baby 9. From Life 10. Consider It Done 11. That's Your Lot 12. Free To Be 13. This Is Showbiz 14. Freaks 15. Teenage Grandad's Back Story

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