Sacconi Quartet - David W. Bowerman: Unto the Hills (2013)

For this new album Champs Hill Records has secured the services of fine musicians including Thomas Carroll (cello), Daniel Pailthorpe (flute), Emily Pailthorpe (oboe), Julian Milford (piano), Sophie Bevan (soprano), and the Sacconi Quartet, all of whom have previously recorded for the label; and Hannah Bishop (trumpet) who makes her first recording for CHR.

Although Bowerman’s first love was always music, he received little or no formal training before he started composing. The results are remarkable, most strikingly his idiomatic writing for instruments. Bowerman himself has written: “I unashamedly draw on music that has meant much to me; a love of the music of Elgar and the organ works of César Franck.”