'Grainger inspired me to find more minimal approaches within my arranging. I embraced his style of using English performance directions such as 'pure', warm' or 'heavy' and enjoyed mimicking his chromatic harmonic movements, cheeky syncopated backings and soaring countermelodies to give my writing some of the qualities found in these…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8jyUQGAVCo Both 'Molly on the Shore' and 'Ye Banks and Braes o Bonnie Doon', ingeniously orchestrated for brass by our trumpet player and composer-in-residence Ryan Linham, were originally set by Grainger for many different combinations of instruments. These settings not only immortalise the folk melodies but preserve in some measure…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3tiGnbZOmM English Fantasy No. 5 for Cornet - Featuring Sam Kinrade Here is Sam Kinrade playing English Fantasy No. 5 for Cornet. The piece forms the final part of a larger set of fantasies for solo brass quintet players scheduled for release by The Ensemble of the Golden Bough in…