compositions by David Gordon unless otherwise stated
1 Greenland
2 Choro Moreno (Mané Silveira)
3 Diminished Tango
4 Tune 7
5 Too Early to Say Goodnight
6 Oblivion (Astor Piazzolla)
7 A Jazz Thing
1 Bluesli
2 September Moon
3 Chorinho (Lyle Mays)
4 Le Départ (Guiffray/Gordon)
5 Brandy for Fauré
6 Après un Rêve (Gabriel Fauré)
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Chanson d’Amour (Gabriel Fauré)
Just announced: I’ll be playing a chamber concert at the Glasshouse, Gateshead on Sunday 28 July as part of BBC Proms season. With violin star Daniel Pioro, singer Ruby Hughes and cellist Clare O’Connell. Details here.
Just released on Signum Records: ‘Earthcycle’ with David Le Page and Orchestra of the Swan, including the four mini violin concertos I’ve written as counterparts to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Link here.
And to be released on 12 February: London Tango Quintet‘s debut album ‘Dancing with Piazzolla’. Taster video here. BBC Radio 3 In Tune session on Friday 9 February, 5pm. London album launch gig on Saturday 10 February here.
Last week was a wonderful cluster of rehearsals, radio broadcast and appearance at the London Jazz Festival, celebrating William Byrd’s music in his centenary year, with the historically informed jazz group Tenor Madness, featuring Jenny Bliss Bennett. To hear the BBC Radio 3 In Tune recording, go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001s5vy and we’re on 1 hour and 8 minutes in. Available till 15 December. Next stop Cambridge Jazz Festival, with the choir of St Catharine’s college, on this Friday, 24 November.
Yup. The official digital release of the trio’s latest album, Pachyderm, is tomorrow, 2 December, with the CD out on 9 December, on Mister Sam Records.
Pre-order etc. here
Meanwhile:
Finally, after a long gestation, the JazzPsalms for Peace project, featuring singer Jacqui Dankworth, will get its premiere on Sunday 20 November 2022. More details soon.
Yet another performance of my recorder concerto, ‘Romanesque’, or at least the last four movements of it, happening at 2pm on Thursday 8 November at the Early Music Festival in Blackheath, played by the wonderful Daniel Swani. Details here
With Rosario Bonaccorso on bass, the trio is delighted to make its debut in Italy on 14 June. Details here.
With the magnificent David Le Page and the Town Church strings, I’ll be taking part in a 200th anniversary celebration of Admiral Saumarez with music by Beethoven and contemporaries. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 1 in C will be a new experience. And I hope the cadenzas will be a new experience for us all.
Very excited to be back at the wonderful Risør Festival. Frode Larsen, the brains behind it all, has got me doing all sorts of things as usual: organising a concert with Christian Tetzlaff, among others, which includes playing the Bach violin sonata in G, BWV 1019; playing Ligeti’s fiendish harpsichord solo Hungarian Rock, improvising on Grieg folksongs, jamming with a Sami jazz group, recreating an old Norwegian radio programme … and all being well collaborating with jazz pianist Michael Wollny on some Goldberg Variations variations. 26 June – 1 July if you’re in the area.
Tonight, Thursday 9 November, at the Greenwich Early Music Festival.
featuring Charlotte Barbour-Condini, who premiered it.
Details here
Delighted to announce a five-date mini tour with David Gordon Trio from 11-16 November. We’re delighted to welcome Italian bass-playing legend Rosario Bonaccorso to join us. Details on the David Gordon Trio website.
September 24 sees the premiere of a new collaboration between Zak Ozmo’s London-based group with the great Concerto Köln, in the Philharmonie, Köln. More details to follow
A mild Helsinki January saw the premiere of Tango Alakulo, a celebration of Finland’s centenary of independence with an alternative spin, through the medium of that Finnish obsession: tango. A remarkable and sold-out show saw actor/writer Timo Torikka star as the lift-boy who introduced characters in Finland’s history to speak and sing for themselves, while we the band played on. Joiking from Wimme Saari, singing from Yona, a pair of black cats dancing, all under the artistic direction of designer Klaus Haapaniemi. More dates to follow – we hope, possibly including a big EU one in Berlin in June.