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Richard Blackford
12+ albums
contemporary classicalClassicalUKcomposerenglish
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Richard Blackford (born 13 January 1954 in London, England) is an English composer. Richard Blackford PhD studied composition with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music and conducting with Norman Del Mar. He was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship and the Tagore Gold Medal. He spent a number of years as Hans Werner Henze's assistant in Italy on a Leverhulme scholarship, where he received his first commissions while immersed in the European avant-garde. He returned to London in 1977 to turn his sights to the dramatic potential of music, combining teaching at LAMDA with commissions for theatre scores along with concert commissions. After becoming first Composer in Residence at Balliol College, Oxford, he was commissioned to write the opera Metamorphoses for the Centenary of the Royal College of Music. Further collaborations with Ted Hughes and Tony Harrison led to international film and theatre projects, including The Prince's Play and Fram at the Royal National Theatre. In all he has composed four operas, two musicals, much concert music and the scores to over two hundred films, being nominated for an Emmy Award in 2001 for Outstanding Achievement In Music. The mid-1990s saw a renewed focus on lyrical and dramatic works for the concert hall, notably Mirror of Perfection and Voices of Exile, both subjects of television documentaries. 2011 saw the premiere of Not In Our Time, a 55-minute choral and orchestral work commissioned to mark the Centenary of the Bournemouth Symph
top songs
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Canticle Of Winter
5992Pietà: I. Stabat mater dolorosa
1593The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony: I. Introduction and Tuning
904The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony: II. Scherzo and Riffs
705Mirror of Perfection: V. Canticle of the Birds
676The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony: III. Elegy
667Pietà: VII. A chorus of angels sang
618Pietà: III. Pro peccatis suae gentis
539Song for a Raggy Boy
5210The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony: V. Song of the Musician Wren
52albums
Blackford: Pietà
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Canticle of Winter
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Blackford: Mirror of Perfection & Vision of a Garden
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The Recovery of Paradise: Blackford Cello Concerto
The Great Animal Orchestra, Symphony for Orchestra and Wild Soundscapes
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Richard Blackford: Kalon
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Richard Blackford: La Sagrada Familia Symphony & Babel, A Cantata
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Blackford: Niobe, Kalon & Blewbury Air
Richard Blackford: Mirror Of Perfection
Richard Blackford: Voices of Exile
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Richard Blackford: Songs of Nadia Anjuman (Live)
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Songs of Nadia Anjuman: No. 1, Turmoil