Posts by Clare Knight
Gregson work featured in ‘Radio3 in Concert’
Tom Redmond presents a concert recorded at the Royal Northern College of Music Brass Band Festival 2025, with Foden’s Band, which features the world premiere of Edward Gregson’s Tenor Horn Concerto: Three Gods, with soloist Tim de Maeseneer.
Listen at 7.30 on Monday 24 March, or on BBC Sounds shortly after the broadcast, here…
Read MoreGregson in the Recording Studio
Edward Gregson attended recording sessions last week in the BBC Studios at Media City, Salford, when the BBC Philharmonic under Ben Gernon recorded his music for a new CD on the Chandos label (to be released in the Autumn of 2025). All the works will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 later in the year. It will be the fifth CD recording of his concertos and orchestral music in a series which Chandos commenced in 2003.
Three of his concertos were recorded: those for Tuba (1976), Oboe (2020), and Viola (2023), along with two shorter works for piano and orchestra, …
Read MoreEdward Gregson featured composer at RNCM International Brass Band Festival
In anticipation of his 80th birthday later in the year, the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) is to celebrate by way of featuring his music in their annual brass band festival. The RNCM has commented: An award-winning English composer, Gregson has made a profound impact on the wind and brass repertoire. The festival will journey through his works, from his earliest compositions to his latest piece. Edward Gregson was Principal of the College from 1996-2008, during a highly successful time in the College’s history.
Eight of his works will be performed, from his early French Horn Concerto (1971) to …
Read MoreGregson nominated for Ivors Composer Award
The Concerto is cast in three movements, played without a break, each being named after a different mythical Goddess: Morrigan (Celtic), Warrior Queen, but also ‘earth mother’; Aphrodite (Greek), Goddess of sexual love and beauty; Diana (Roman), Goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and …
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