Judith
Bailey: Recordings
Currently there are three discs containing Judith Bailey's works available, covering her orchestral and instrumental music, and one song.
Orchestral
Music
Havas -
A disc of music by George Lloyd and Judith Bailey played by
the Bath Philharmonia conducted by Jason Thornton was issued
on EM
Records in August 2014. This includes two of Judith's
compositions Havas - a period of summer Op.44 and the
Concerto for Orchestra Op.55 with four works by George Lloyd,
all of which receive their first recordings. The recordings
were made in St. Jude's Church, Hampstead Heath in April 2014
and some pictures of the sessions are shown below. The disc
has been reviewed on MusicWeb International here.
Instrumental
music
The Davey Chamber
Ensemble - Juliet Davey, Prunella Sedgwick (violins); Lucy
White (viola); Catherine Wilmers ('cello); Jane Plessner (clarinet);
Nicola Grunberg (piano) - have recorded the following works:
String Quartet
Op. 31
Clarinet Quintet Op. 47
The Towers of San Gimignano Op. 51
Egloshayle Trio Op. 59
Aquamarine Waltz Op. 65
Microminiature No. 1 Op. 68
Microminiature No. 2 Op. 70
Visions of Hildegard Op. 72
Light Op. 76
The sessions took
place at the Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University on
19-21 December 2007 (see photos below). Jim Pattison of Dunelm
records was the engineer.
The disc was released
on Divine Art's Metier label (msvcd92101) at mid-price - see
Divine Art's website
for details. It has been reviewed on MusicWeb by Rob
Barnett, Dominy
Clements and Jonathan
Woolf.
Other recording
A commercial recording of Judith's song Jeäne
has been available on a disc entitled Songs of Dorset
on the Dunelm Records label which was reviewed
on MusicWeb in 2002. It has since been re-released on Divine Art DDV 24163.
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