Nash Ensemble Bickley Brabbins - Gardener Of AleppoFour previous releases on BIS have all featured John Pickard's music for large orchestra or, in the case of the Gaia Symphony (BIS 2061), large brass band. This new album, on the other hand, presents scorings ranging from a solo oboe to a chamber ensemble of eight players. The seven works cover just over 30 years; the earliest one, Serenata Concertata, was Pickard's first paid commission written at the age of twenty. In his liner notes, Pickard notes

Even today The Faction's music is featured in many skateboard videos and documentaries

whose talents would be showcased most famously in The Five Venoms and Crippled Avengers

Jimmie Skinner was a country singer

Miquel Llobet / Franz Halasz - Cangons I Danses Catalanes

we wanted to record Escalay by the Egyptian oud player Hamza el Din who died in 2006

into the speech of the other

combining traditional music instruments (musical bow

and Don Ruby

William Dongois

Hapless revenue inspector Cedric Charlton (Tok Stephens) had to cope with their lifestyle-and the attentions of lovely eldest daughter Mariette (Sabrina Bartlett)-in this lively ITV redo of "The Darling Buds of May"

named after the book-is like a surf song from a sci-fi movie

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