Edwin Roxburgh: Saturn

Roxburgh's Clarinet Concerto features soloist Linda Merrick in a work of symphonic scope and expressivity; she is acompanied by the Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.

In Saturn - a tribute to Holst, Roxburgh's predecessor at the Royal College of Music - Roxburgh explores the mythical characters of its moons and satellites in a series of orchestral showpieces which culminates in the wild abandon, and percussive onslaught, of Saturn itself; Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra is conducted by Peter Stark.

"Saturn is an epic orchestral and electronic space-scape, effortlessly blending Roxburgh's understanding of Boulez and Stockhausen with a Birtwistle-like sense of ritual. An orbiting soprano saxophone beams down ideas to an orchestral underlay dominated by clattering percussion and mind-expanding electronics; this is an extraordinarily ballsy mission undertaken by HCYO."
Philip Clarke, The Wire, 2006

Linda Merrick, RNCM SO, HCYO, Peter Stark, Edwin Roxburgh - Edwin Roxburgh: Saturn (NMC D119)

Download Album

1.		Linda Merrick, clarinet/ RNCM Symphony Orchestra/ Edwin Roxburgh, conductor - Clarinet Concerto: 1 Very still - poco agitato -	15m 37s
2.		Linda Merrick, clarinet/ RNCM Symphony Orchestra/ Edwin Roxburgh, conductor - Clarinet Concerto: 2 Sostenuto -	6m 32s
3.		Linda Merrick, clarinet/ RNCM Symphony Orchestra/ Edwin Roxburgh, conductor - Clarinet Concerto: 3 Con anima	8m 49s
4.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Rings & Shepherds	2m 39s
5.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Mimas	2m 11s
6.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Enceladus	1m 10s
7.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Tethys	1m 55s
8.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Dione	2m 12s
9.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Rhea	48s
10.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Titan	2m 25s
11.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Hyperion	2m 37s
12.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Iapetus	41s
13.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Phoebe	1m 43s
14.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Saturn	9m 40s

Linda Merrick, RNCM SO, HCYO, Peter Stark, Edwin Roxburgh - Edwin Roxburgh: Saturn (NMC D119)

CD Album

1.		Linda Merrick, clarinet/ RNCM Symphony Orchestra/ Edwin Roxburgh, conductor - Clarinet Concerto: 1 Very still - poco agitato -
2.		Linda Merrick, clarinet/ RNCM Symphony Orchestra/ Edwin Roxburgh, conductor - Clarinet Concerto: 2 Sostenuto -
3.		Linda Merrick, clarinet/ RNCM Symphony Orchestra/ Edwin Roxburgh, conductor - Clarinet Concerto: 3 Con anima
4.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Rings & Shepherds
5.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Mimas
6.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Enceladus
7.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Tethys
8.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Dione
9.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Rhea
10.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Titan
11.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Hyperion
12.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Iapetus
13.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Phoebe
14.		Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra/ Peter Stark, conductor - Saturn: Saturn

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