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Geoffrey Gordon London (2)

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Geoffrey Gordon - press photo 1 (in Cannes)

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Geoffrey Gordon - press photo 2 (in Cannes)

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Geoffrey Gordon - press photo 3 (in Cannes)

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Geoffrey Gordon - press photo 4 (in New York City)

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Geoffrey Gordon BIO (short) 2024

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Geoffrey Gordon BIO/CV and list of works 2024

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Geoffrey Gordon BIO 2024

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Mythologies and Mad Songs FANFARE review and interview

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Mythologies and Mad Songs GRAMOPHONE review

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Mythologies and Mad Songs press release Orchid Classics

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Antwerp Symphony Orchestra interview with Geoffrey Gordon...
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra interviews composer Geoffrey Gordon and soloist Dimitri Mestdag on the eve the world premiere of Mad Song, a concerto for English horn and orchestra commissioned for Mr. Gordon by the ASO for their principal English horn soloist, Mr. Mestdag. (This interview is in Dutch.)

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BIS: Cello Libris press release...
Press release from Swedish record label BIS announcing Cello Libris, the new CD featuring cello works of composer Geoffrey Gordon.

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Nature Magazine profile of Muse-IC project...
Music of the spheres and cells: Elie Dolgin profiles a compelling collaboration between scientists and composers in Paris, including composer Geoffrey Gordon, whose chamber work Cosmic Inflation and the End of the Dark Ages, was commissioned by the Curie Institute for this fascinating project.

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Classical Music Magazine: FATHOMS premiere...
Music critic Katy Wright, of Classical Music Magazine, interviews composer Geoffrey Gordon about his cello sonata FATHOMS prior to the London premiere at St. John's Smith Square.....in May 2017.

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I. At The Round Earths Imagin'd Corners
This is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's song cycle, At the round earths imagin'd corners, for baritone and piano, after the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, commissioned for and premiered as part of the Oxford International Song Festival, with baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Alisdair Hogarth - Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England... 7:45pm 27 October 2023.

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PUCK - fleeing from the dawn
This is the studio recording of composer Geoffrey Gordon's orchestral work, PUCK - fleeing from the dawn, from the new Orchid Classics CD, Mythologies and Mad Songs - featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Martyn Brabbins.

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Mad Song I. The wild winds weep, And the night is a-cold
This is the first movement of Geoffrey Gordon's concerto for English horn and orchestra, Mad Song, from the studio recording with the BBC Scottish SO, Martyn Brabbins and Dimitri Mestdag - Mythologies and Mad Songs on Orchid Classics.

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Prometheus - for bass clarinet and orchestra: 1st Movement
This is the first movement of the premiere performance of composer Geoffrey Gordon's bass clarinet concerto, Prometheus, featuring the Philharmonia Orchestra, from Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, with soloist Laurent Ben Slimane and guest conductor, Martyn Brabbins, 19 January 2019.

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Ode to a Nightingale for mixed choir and solo cello (excerpt)
This is an excerpt from the world premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's Ode to a Nightingale, a setting of the John Keats poem for mixed choir and solo cello, featuring the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and cellist Toke Moldrup. The performance took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 May 2018 and was recorded and broadcast by Danish Radio.

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FATHOMS IV. The Isle is Full of Noises
The Isle is Full of Noises is the fourth movement from Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS, Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude), for cello and piano, featuring cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck, which premiered at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 17 Dec. 2015. REVIEW: "The engaging and colorful 'Fathoms' links to the past with unabashedly programmatic, extroverted storytelling. Using a range of extended techniques and unusual textures, Mr. Gordon vividly sketches characters and scenes from 'The Tempest.' Caliban’s gruffness, Ariel’s quicksilver curiosity, the glowing romance between Ferdinand and Miranda all came alive in Mr. Moldrup and Mr. Beck’s intense playing. The final movement imagines Prospero drowning his book, with Mr. Moldrup gradually tuning the bottom string of his cello downward, creating the unnerving sensation of something sinking, slowly, to ever darker depths." The New York Times: 18 December 2015 Release date: 29 June 2019

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Cosmic Inflation and the End of the Dark Ages
This is the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's new chamber work, Cosmic Inflation and the End of the Dark Ages - commissioned by the Institut Curie, as part of the Muse-IC project - from the performance in Paris, at the Salle Cortot concert hall, on 12 March 2019, featuring an ensemble drawn from the musicians of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Marc Desmons. Cosmic Inflation and the End of the Dark Ages, scored for bass clarinet(doubling Bb clarinet), string quartet, piano and harp, is inspired by the research of astrophysicist Herve Dole into the first vibrations of the universe.

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Winterleben II. Winter-Lerchenton (European premiere)
Horn soloist Tommi Hyytinen (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra), mezzo soprano Niina Keitel and pianist Marko Hilpo give the European premiere of composer Geoffrey Gordon's chamber vocal work, Winterleben, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland - Monday, 7 June 2021. This is the second song in the cycle - Winter-Lerchenton. Winterleben is a song cycle setting five texts, in German, by Mahler's favorite poet, Friedrich Rückert, for mezzo, horn and piano. This work was originally commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, and first premiered in Zipper Hall,Los Angeles, on 7 August 2015.

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Ice "Aut inveniam viam aut faciam"
Provided to YouTube by Naxos Digital Services Ice "Aut inveniam viam aut faciam" · BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra · Martyn Brabbins · Geoffrey Gordon Mythologies & Mad Songs ℗ 2024 Orchid Music Limited Released on: 2024-05-17 Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Martyn Brabbins Composer: Geoffrey Gordon Auto-generated by YouTube.

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Geoffrey Gordon: Fumée (2021) (Asian première)
This is the Asian premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's concerto for clarinet and chamber orchestra, Fumée, with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, conductor Christoph Poppen and soloist Horácio Ferreira, from Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, 29 June 2024.

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Geoffrey Gordon: The Doktor Faustus Cello Concerto
This is an excerpt from composer Geoffrey Gordon's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, commissioned by the Copenhagen Philharmonic for their principle cellist, Toke Møldrup, and premiered on 31 January 2014, at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, with guest conductor, Rory Macdonald.

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GORDON: Vermilion for tenor trombone and piano
This is the studio recording of Geoffrey Gordon's Vermilion for tenor trombone and piano, after the painting by Matisse, featuring trombone soloist Håkan Björkman (Principal trombone, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe) and pianist Pilar Beltran. Recorded 11 September, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden - Sound engineer: Jan-Olof Gullö, RCM. www.geoffreygordoncomposer.com

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Geoffrey Gordon: Jeux de Création for solo harp
This is a live performance of composer Geoffrey Gordon's work for solo harp, Jeux de Création, commissioned for Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra principal harp, Anne-Sophie Bertrand. The studio recording of this work is available on the Naxos label on a CD of the same name, released in October 2021.

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Geoffrey Gordon: Roman Rituals for Horn Solo
Roman Rituals (2020), World Premiere as live video production Composer: Geoffrey Gordon Horn: Saar Berger Sound Engineer: Lukas Nowok

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Geoffrey Gordon: CRUCIFIXUS (world premiere)
This is the world premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's CRUCIFIXUS for double choir (SATB/SATB) and solo cello, featuring the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and cello soloist Toke Møldrup, given on 30 April 2017, Holmens Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark. The recording is courtesy of Danish Radio, available here: www.dr.dk/p2/p2-koncerten/p2-koncerten-2017-05-03

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