This is part of the work I wrote with a grant from Saskatchewan Arts Board (Sask Arts), because I was paid well to write this work I am distributing this for free;
I hope you enjoy it.
It was created in a way that one large four-movement work was written, but also nine small works we written as well. A pattern of ensemlble reoccured in each of the four movmements so, the work opens with . . . .
see Opus 242 for full text.
Released: May 16, 2021
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Performed by Richard Burdick’s Horn & swam ensemble
This multi track recording was done in April, 2020
Cover Photo : tree roots by R Burdick
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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1. | "Rain Forrest, Plains, Waltz and Sun" a nonet, Op. 270 |
7:10 |
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7:15 |
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7:19 |
4. |
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8:11 |
5. |
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10:49 |
6. |
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8:15 |
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9:14 |
8. |
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6:27 |
9. |
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11:09 |
10. |
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2:03 |
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60:56 |
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