Welcome to
THE NOVELBOND WEBSITE
This website provides an introduction to the music of Joseph James with information about recordings and forthcoming performances, and with details of how to order existing recordings.
Announcement
Francis James Brown, one of the two partners who make up Joseph James, died in London on January 18th, 2008.
Reviews
Ateș Orga on Wanderer Fantasy
“Orlando Jopling does powerful, extraordinary things with this music, generating a structural momentum, emotional charge and climax that can evade even the best of pianists.”
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Recorded works
Features
Recording with the English Chamber Orchestra
On 20 December 2007 a recording of Joseph James’s most recent works was completed at Air Studios, London, with the strings and soloists of the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Orlando Jopling.
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Baroque instruments in The Scarlet Letter
The music of Joseph James is notable for the extraordinary range of sonorities that are encountered. The opera The Scarlet Letter (1991) is scored for a very large orchestra, unusual not only for the inclusion of a huge percussion session, but also for the use of several instruments characteristic of the Baroque period.
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