Sweelinck tot Stravinsky

Highlights from Allegro, a four part tv series made for the Netherlands broadcaster npo2, organised by EO with Ars Musica and filmed in Amersfoort at the Sint Joriskerk.

In this tv series I performed both on bass trombone and bass sackbut, covering music from Claude Goudimel (1514 - 1572) to Igor Stravinsky. (1882 - 1971)

These clips are from the first and second episodes featuring historical performance of Claude Goudimel, Jan Sweelinck and JS Bach.

The Year Without Summer

Lock-down Recital

-2020-

The year without summer is a recital centered around the poetic work "Darkness" by Lord Byron on the theme of an apocalyptic end of the world.

Written in 1816, a year known in history as The Year without Summer, after the Mount Tambora Strato-volcano erupted in the Dutch East Indies. The eruption cast huge quantities of sulphur into the atmosphere, blocking the sun, reducing global temperatures and causing raging storms across north-east America and northern Europe.

I recorded this recital in the summer of 2020 during the Netherlands Covid-19 lock-down while isolated in my apartment. The four works which make up this recital were chosen to depict the mental experience of the lock-down and the effect that the seemingly endless passing of time has when someone is trapped inside 24/7 for months.

Moonrise with Memories by Frederic Rzewski

At a Loss by Stuart T Campbell

KRAZNY by Peter McNamara

Little Duet in C Minor by Georges Bizet

Contrabass trombone excerpts from Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen

Presented here are Eight Excerpts from Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen on Contrabass Trombone

 Daniel Schnyder’s subZERO - Concerto for Basstrombone

Live with the Queensland Conservatorium Orchestra