Alun Hoddinott(1929-2008)

[relm1]

Yes, that's a great cd, with nos 2, 3 and 5. A great place to start a Hoddinott collection.

I think this too is an excellent disc and wonderful place to start with Hoddinott.  Featuring a symphony, a tone poem, song cycle, and chamber orchestra work, this disc shows his edgy style but also his evocative but lyrical and more impressionistic sides too.


https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%208762

[vandermolen]

I think this too is an excellent disc and wonderful place to start with Hoddinott.  Featuring a symphony, a tone poem, song cycle, and chamber orchestra work, this disc shows his edgy style but also his evocative but lyrical and more impressionistic sides too.


https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%208762

I agree. Symphony No.6 is the most approachable of those I know and I enjoy the whole disc, especially Lanterne des Morts.

[Symphonic Addict]

https://www.youtube.com/v/rUtiWZLaXS0

Something I can detect from this composer's style that I enjoy so much is the way he manages to conjure up gripping atmospheres that includes wizardry, a strong sense of mysticism, rhythm and forbidding seriousness. The result is striking, as it could be heard in this orchestral work Dragon Fire. A quite cogent work with a protuberant part for timpani and percussion.

[Figaro]

I was looking about for information about Hoddinott's vast trove of unrecorded music and came across this thread.
http://artmusic.smfforfree.com/index.php?topic=6289.0

It makes reference to off-air recordings existing of a range of Hoddinott concertos such as those for trumpet, trombone, percussion, and the third piano concerto. I've searched but of the hoddinott concerti this thread asserts can be listened to, I can only find the organ and second Violin concertos. Anyone know where one might find any of the others?

thanks in advance!

[calyptorhynchus]

My favourite work of his is Taliesin. His other works I don't get along with.

[relm1]

I was looking about for information about Hoddinott's vast trove of unrecorded music and came across this thread.
http://artmusic.smfforfree.com/index.php?topic=6289.0

It makes reference to off-air recordings existing of a range of Hoddinott concertos such as those for trumpet, trombone, percussion, and the third piano concerto. I've searched but of the hoddinott concerti this thread asserts can be listened to, I can only find the organ and second Violin concertos. Anyone know where one might find any of the others?

thanks in advance!

Did you check youtube?  Alot of them are there like the horn concerto here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGuSfsTajns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgQGDIE6J7g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZQx9r9SwI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTE9tutKn9A

etc.

Grr...I can't figure out the youtube embedded even though I copied it from Karl's explanation.  Here are the links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGuSfsTajns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgQGDIE6J7g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZQx9r9SwI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTE9tutKn9A

[Albion]

I was looking about for information about Hoddinott's vast trove of unrecorded music and came across this thread.
http://artmusic.smfforfree.com/index.php?topic=6289.0

It makes reference to off-air recordings existing of a range of Hoddinott concertos such as those for trumpet, trombone, percussion, and the third piano concerto. I've searched but of the hoddinott concerti this thread asserts can be listened to, I can only find the organ and second Violin concertos. Anyone know where one might find any of the others?

thanks in advance!

Yes, I have archived bucket-loads of Hoddinott broadcasts over the years. PMd you on AMF...

Hoddinott, Alun (1929-2008)

Clarinet Concerto No.1, Op.3 (1950)+++
Mark Walton, clarinet/ London Studio Strings/ Barry Wordsworth

Viola Concertino, Op.14 (1958)+++
Frederick Riddle, viola/ BBC Welsh SO/ David Atherton

Welsh Dances, Suite No.1, Op.15 (1958)^
Ulster O/ David Hill (br. 6/11/2008)

Folk Song Suite (1962)+++
BBC Northern Ireland O/ Eric Wetherall

Job, Op. 24 (1962, rev. 1977)++++
   Paul Wilson, bass/ BBC Welsh Choral Society/ Cardiff Bach Choir/ BBC Welsh O/ Vernon Handley (br. 8/5/1979)

Concerto Grosso No.1, Op.41 (1965)+++
BBC Welsh SO/ Daniel Jones (br. 1976)

Concerto Grosso No.1, Op.41 (1965)<>
BBC Welsh SO/ Daniel Jones (br.1976)

Piano Concerto No.3, Op.44 (1966)+++
Martin Jones, piano/ BBC SO/ Boris Brott (br. 2/8/1974)

Severn Bridge Variations - Variation 2 (1966)+++ [in SA-SP folder]
BBC Welsh SO/ Boris Brott (br. 20/7/1976)

Night Music, Op.48 (1966)<>
BBC Welsh SO/ John Carewe

Organ Concerto, Op.51 (1967)+++
Gillian Weir, organ/ BBC Welsh O/ Boris Brott (br. 1/9/1974)

Organ Concerto, Op.51 (1967)<>
John Scott, organ/ BBC Welsh SO/ Bryden Thomson

Roman Dream, Op.54 (1968)~~~~
Margaret Price, sop/ Cardiff Festival Players/ James Lockhart (Argo LP ZRG 691, 1972)

Fioriture, Op.60 (1968)<>
BBCSSO/ James Loughran

Welsh Dances, Suite No.2, Op.64 (1969)^
BBC NOW/ Thierry Fischer (br. 1/2/2007)

Sinfonietta No.2, Op.67 (1969)+++
BBC Welsh SO/ Boris Brott

Symphony No.4, Op.70 (1970)++++
Hallé O/ Maurice Handford (br. 23/3/1970)

The Hawk is Set Free, Op.72 No.5 (1970)+++
BBC Welsh SO/ Bryden Thomson

Welsh Folksongs (1971)~~~~
Huw Tregelles Williams, organ/ Pendyrus Male Choir/ Glynne Jones

Welsh Airs and Dances (1975)^
BBC NOW/ Students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama/ Jonathan Mann (br. 14/5/2010)

The Beach of Falesà, Op.83 (1970-74) - excerpts~~~~
Geraint Evans, bar (Case); Delme Bryn-Jones, bar (Wiltshire); Sandra Browne, mezzo (Uma); Forbes Robinson, bass (Black Jack); Terence Walters, ten (Schooner Captain); Edward Byles, ten (Father Galuchet); Rowland Jones, ten (Papa Randall)/ Welsh National Opera Chorus and O/ Richard Armstrong (1974)

Landscapes for orchestra, Op. 86 (1975)+++
BBC Welsh SO/ Boris Brott

Landscapes for orchestra, Op.86 (1975)<>
New Philharmonia O/ Hans-Hubert Schonzeler

French Suite, Op.91 (1976)++++
BBC NOW/ Vasily Petrenko (br. 4/4/2006)

Scenes from The Trumpet Major, Op.103a (1981)<>
BBC Welsh SO/ Owain Arwel Hughes

Fanfare with Variants (1985)<>
National Youth O of Wales/ Edward Gregson

Welsh Dances, Suite No.3, Op.123 (1985)^
National Youth O of Wales/ Owain Arwel Hughes (Berlin, 10/8/2004)

Symphony No.7, Op.137 (1989)**
Thomas Trotter, organ/ BBC NOW/ Tadaaki Otaka (br. 21/6/2005)

Symphony No.7, Op.137 (1989)<>
Jane Watts, organ/ BBC Welsh SO/ Richard Hickox

Symphony No.8, Op.142 (1992)++++
National Youth Brass Band of Wales/ Edward Gregson (20/9/1992)

Symphony No.8, Op.142 (1992)<>
National Youth Brass Band of Wales/ Edward Gregson (20/9/1992)

Symphony No.9, A Vision of Eternity, Op.145 (1992)~~
Gwyneth Jones, sop/ BBC NOW/Tadaaki Otaka (br. 2/1/1994)

Symphony No.9, A Vision of Eternity, Op.145 (1992)<>
Gwyneth Jones, sop/ BBC NOW/Tadaaki Otaka (br. 2/1/1994)

Violin Concerto No.2, Mistral, Op.153 (1995)+++
Olivier Charlier, violin/ BBC NOW/ Douglas Bostock (br.1995)

Trumpet Concerto, The Shining Pyramid, Op.154 (1995)^
Philippe Schartz, trumpet/ BBC NOW/ Douglas Bostock (br. 19/9/2005)

Dragon Fire, Concertante for Timpani, Percussion and Orchestra, Op.167 (1998)<>
BBC NOW/ Mark Wigglesworth

Symphony No.10, Op.172 (1999)**
BBC NOW/ Tadaaki Otaka (br. 19/10/2007)

Symphony No.10, Op.172 (1999)<>
BBC NOW/ Tadaaki Otaka (br. 19/10/2007)

Euphonium Concerto, The Sunne Rising, The King Will Ride, Op.180 (2002)^
David Childs, euphonium/ BBC NOW/ Pierre-Andre Valade (br. 22/2/2006)

Lizard, Concerto for Orchestra, Op.181 (2003)<>
BBC NOW/ Tadaaki Otaka (br. 9/11/2003)

Lizard, Concerto for Orchestra, Op.181 (2003)
BBC NOW/ Jac van Steen (24/1/2009, br. 18/2/2021)

Trombone Concerto, Op.185 (2004)^
Mark Eager, trombone/ BBC NOW/ Grant Llewellyn (6/10/2004, rpt. 24/2/2006)

La Serenissima: Images of Venice, Op. 189 (2007)++++
Helen Field, sop/ Jeremey Huw Williams, bar/ BBC NOW/ Jac van Steen (1/3/2007, br. 3/3/2008)

Taliesin (2007)*****
BBC NOW/ François-Xavier Roth (10/10/2009, br. 23/2/2010)