CD40
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Released: September 9th, 2016
This CD is a retrospective of the horn quartets
written by RIchard Burdick
There are five different works here:
Horn Quartet No. 1, Op. 39 in four movements
Written for and performed by the Pacific Horn Quartet
Horn Quartet No. 2 in Bb, Op. 51 in four movements Originally written for four natural horns
Horn Quartet No. 3 “Quratet”, Op. 136 in four movements
Written for and performed by the Pacific Horn Quartet
Horn Quartet No. 4 “Amram visits Copland’s Tomb”, Op. 149 in four movements. This work was written for a competition and has never been performed. It a programmatic work describing the funeral of Copland.
I. To the Funeral
II. The Tomb (Artifice II) see also Artific I
III. Columns of the Mausoleum (Artifice II)“
Op. 149: IV. Amram’s Dance (Short Version)
Horn Quartet No. 5, Op. 154
About the Recording:
Richard Burdick as a musician:
French hornist: Richard O. Burdick is the first horn of Regina Symphony Orchestra and the Regina Symphony Chamber Players in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a prolific composer.His move to Canada in 2003, with his wife Rebecca and his two boys, marked the start of the fourth major period in his musical Career.
In the 1980’s Richard was first Horn of Napa Symphony, a member of a San Francisco based theater orchestra and played lots of chamber music as manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts, a chamber music series in Berkeley California.
Starting in 1990 he played fourth Horn full-time for Sacramento Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1996. He then won auditions for Fresno Philharmonic, Napa & North State Symphonies and played in Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera.
He is a prolific composer and has many self produced CD’s of his own compositions, Bach, his classical natural horn playing and multi-track performances of many of his favorite pieces.
He performs on a variety of horns, a baroque natural horn (1720), a classical era natural horn (1800), a romantic era (1840's) natural horn, a single F horn from the 1880's, his main symphony horn is a Brendan Model Finke triple horn.
He has also done many music related jobs such as arranger for Sacramento Symphony, librarian and personal manager for Sacramento Philharmonic, and manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts (chamber music series) in Berkeley, California for 19 years starting in 1984.
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