{"id":8752,"date":"2021-04-30T20:12:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T20:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=8752"},"modified":"2021-07-01T21:59:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T21:59:30","slug":"milos-releases-the-moon-the-forest-on-decca-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/milos-releases-the-moon-the-forest-on-decca-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"MILO\u0160 Releases “The Moon & The Forest” on Decca Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrating\u00a010 years with Universal<\/b>, superstar and bona fide\u00a0\u201cClassical Guitar God\u201d<\/i>\u00a0(The Times<\/em>)\u00a0MILO\u0160<\/b>\u00a0releases a brand new album, featuring\u00a0two outstanding original concertos<\/b>, both specially-commissioned for the star musician \u2013 a testament to his outstanding musicianship and pioneering spirit, showcasing new guitar repertoire on the world stage.<\/p>\n

The Moon & The Forest<\/i>, released on 30th<\/sup>\u00a0April 2021<\/b>, features works for guitar and orchestra by award-winning composers\u00a0Howard Shore\u00a0<\/b>(Lord of the Rings, The Departed)<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Joby Talbot<\/b>\u00a0(The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy, Winter\u2019s Tale)<\/i>. Inspired\u00a0by his now legendary artistry and unique personal heritage, both Shore and Talbot worked closely with MILO\u0160 in order to create two distinctive, groundbreaking scores.<\/p>\n

MILO\u0160 says, \u201cIt has long been my wish to challenge composers to write for the classical guitar, particularly with regards to the concerto\u00a0repertoire. For centuries, this instrument has touched many\u00a0people around the world and yet its repertoire remains very much underrepresented in the classical mainstream. It is exactly this that inspired me to seek new ideas and approach Joby and Howard in the first place. <\/i>The Moon & the Forest, with two brand new concertos that I adore and can humbly call my own, is my personal fairytale come true.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Best known for his epic scores to the\u00a0Lord of the Rings<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Hobbit<\/i>\u00a0films, Howard Shore\u2019s guitar concerto \u2018The Forest\u2019 partially deviates from his works on the screen, drawing instead from the symbiotic relationship between people and the earth.\u00a0Montenegro and its dark forests have been an inspiration to Howard and MILO\u0160 from the beginning, when the work was first commissioned by Canada\u2019s National Arts Centre.<\/p>\n

Shore adds,\u00a0\u201cI too live in a place where I am encompassed by things that grow and bloom and fade. It is everchanging. It is always striving for equilibrium and harmony. I find this interconnectedness and interdependency inspiring. These are ideas I carry with me and are often the source from which I express my musical ideas.\u201d\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

MILO\u0160 says,\u00a0\u201cThe first time I heard the piece, I was moved by the honest simplicity of its harmonies, idiomatic writing and incredibly programmatic nature that makes you instantly dream up so many colours and sceneries in your head. The work is magical, just like the enchanted forest Howard wanted to paint with his unique musical brushstrokes.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2018Ink Dark Moon\u2019 received its world premiere at the 2018\u00a0BBC Proms <\/b>at the Royal Albert Hall. Its dramatic orchestration and guitar writing aim to challenge the perceived notion of what a guitar concerto can and should be. The piece showcases a wealth of influences, shared between gentle, minimalist harmonies, edgy Balkan-inspired dance themes and Talbot\u2019s own characteristically relentless rhythmic propulsions.<\/p>\n

Taking its title from a collection of Japanese love poetry, the concerto very much places the guitar \u2013 and its soloist \u2013 at the very centre of proceedings. Cast in three movements that flow into one another, changes in mood and atmospheric timbre permeate the work, exploring sonorous landscapes that bring the vivid imagery to life.<\/p>\n

MILO\u0160 remarks, \u201cInk Dark Moon is like a perfect symphony – there is no element of delicacy or virtuosity left untouched. Joby loves the guitar- he celebrates it and envelops its delicate voice with veils of sound and colour. The full power of the orchestration and guitar writing in the third movement breaks the glass ceiling of possibilities.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

The album also includes innovative new arrangements for solo guitar of\u00a0Ludovico Einaudi\u2019s<\/b>\u00a0\u2018Full Moon\u2019 and\u00a0Robert<\/b>\u00a0Schumann\u2019s\u00a0<\/b>\u2018Tr\u00e4umerei\u2019 \u2013\u00a0two moving pieces from the Romantic and Modern classical repertoire. Canada\u2019s\u00a0National Arts Centre Orchestra\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<\/b>the\u00a0BBC Symphony Orchestra\u00a0<\/b>feature on the recording, conducted by\u00a0Alexander Shelley<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Ben Gernon<\/b>\u00a0respectively.<\/p>\n

To mark a decade of incredible music-making with Universal, MILO\u0160\u2019s new album cements his position as not only \u201cthe hottest guitarist in the world\u201d (Sunday Times<\/em>), but also a pioneer and innovator of contemporary guitar repertoire for the ages.<\/p>\n

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Celebrating\u00a010 years with Universal, superstar and bona fide\u00a0\u201cClassical Guitar God\u201d\u00a0(The Times)\u00a0MILO\u0160\u00a0releases a brand new album, featuring\u00a0two outstanding original concertos, both specially-commissioned for the star musician \u2013 a testament to his outstanding musicianship and pioneering spirit, showcasing new guitar repertoire on the world stage. The Moon & The Forest, released on 30th\u00a0April 2021, features works for … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3636,3910,4256,3974,7039,3908,3954,3686,3868],"class_list":["post-8752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-album","tag-classical","tag-composer","tag-contemporary","tag-decca","tag-guitar","tag-milos","tag-orchestra","tag-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8950,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions\/8950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}