The composer Howard Blake remains to be maybe greatest recognized for one single piece of music, The Snowman. His well-known track ‘Strolling within the Air’ from it was the chart success that launched Aled Jones in 1985, while the live performance model for narrator and orchestra is carried out world-wide and the full-length ballet for Sadler’s Wells runs for a season yearly in London. However Blake’s intensive output is much extra diverse than this is able to lead you to imagine.
For the early a part of his profession he wrote quite a few movie scores, together with The Duellists with Ridley Scott, A Month within the Nation, and naturally The Snowman. However his output stretches from a Piano Concerto commissioned to honour Diana, Princess of Wales, large-scale choral works and chamber music.
I first met Howard in 2013 at a celebration for his seventy fifth birthday at which he accompanied the sensible younger cellist Benedict Kloeckner in three works for cello and piano, two of which have been created for Kloeckner. Now, ten years later, Howard and Benedict can be joined by Julian Trevelyan (piano), Lana Trotsovek (violin), Ian Byrne (viola), Boris Bijak (flute) and Andrew Marriner (clarinet) for a birthday celebration at St John’s Smith Sq. on 10 Could 2023 which incorporates three of trios, Violin Sonata and Piano Quartet.
Full particulars from the St John’s Smith Sq. web site.
