Having had the great pleasure of conducting Oliver Davis’ albums ‘Flight’, ‘Seasons’, ‘Dance’, ‘Liberty’, and ‘Arcadia’, he now presents ‘Blue’, released on 5th October 2023.
Category Archives: Recordings
Oliver Davis – new recording.
Recently recorded Oliver’s new album with the RPO. Out next year. Wonderful music; wonderful playing.
America – Daniel Hope
For me a very important new album recently released on Deutsche Grammophon as I have arranged almost all of it. The only piece that didn’t need arranging was Copland’s ‘Rodeo’ as it was already written for strings. New suites for solo violin and strings by Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and individual pieces by Copland, Duke Ellington, Cooke, Ward and Price – a unique tour through the different voices of American music.
I arranged the Kurt Weill Suite in 2014 for concert use and publication by Schott. It was originally written for full symphony orchestra and is now re-arranged for strings plus jazz guitar and drums. The Gershwin Suite for violin and strings followed in 2018 and jazz trio was added later. Then came the Bernstein West Side Story Suite in 2019, accepted by the Bernstein Estate and published by Boosey and Hawkes. It’s a thrill to have them all together on one album and my heartfelt thanks to Daniel for so many wonderful ideas and commissions.
Oliver Davis recording
I’m very excited to be going back to Air Studios in November with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to record two new albums of music by Oliver Davis, having already conducted his albums Flight, Liberty, Dance, and Arcadia. Here below is a picture from a previous recording session at Abbey Road with Oliver and Kerenza Peacock in the middle and myself on the right.
HOPE
The new album from Daniel Hope that features several of my arrangements.
Misa Criolla by Ramirez arranged for solo violin, choir, percussion and strings.
Danny Boy arranged for solo violin and strings.
Dream a Little Dream arranged for violin, harp, piano and strings
Amazing Grace arranged for solo violin, voice, harp piano and strings
Nimrod by Elgar arranged for violin and male vocal group Amarcord.
Christmas with Hope
Daniel Hope and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra play four Christmas songs that I arranged for Solo Violin and Strings released by Deutsche Grammophon.
From Daniel: Four of the most beautiful Christmas songs ever written, in brand new arrangements by Paul Bateman, one of the great arrangers of our time. I’m joined by our Zürcher Kammerorchester on a new digital EP (Extended Play).
Fred Hall – Love’s Pure Light
A Christmas EP from Fred Hall, Costa Rican tenor with the National Symphony Orchestra. Conducted and arranged by yours truly.
New recording of John Jeffreys Violin Concerto
10 years ago I conducted a new recording of John Jeffreys’ Violin Concerto (1951) with Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay and the Philharmonia Orchestra but the composer died two weeks before the recording and it was never released. It is now on YouTube and it includes a short video introduction by myself. It’s a very profoundly moving and beautiful piece. Please click this link: https://youtu.be/XDtel61odBw