THE PIED PIPER - BBC RADIO 4

THE PIED PIPER TRANSMISSION DATE JUST ANNOUNCED.
Hear John's songs and music for David Tennant's 'Pied Piper' this Boxing Day at 11.30am on Radio 4

John Harle once again composes music for Radio 4 drama, this time with the Children's Christmas Special for 2011.

David Tennant stars in Robert Browning's THE PIED PIPER, with a score including new nursery rhymes sung by the choir of Wingham School, and 'So Many Tears' sung by Thomas Platts, head chorister at Canterbury Cathedral.

POLAR

"A widescreen, HD film performance of the landscapes and animal life of Arctica and Antarctica- marrying music to unforgettable and never-seen-before footage of polar bears, penguins, beluga whales, and with truly symphonic power matching the colossal scale of these icy, remote landscapes, Polar is an ode to these mysterious and monumental regions of the world."
World Class Service - Producers of 'Polar'

Reviews

“Harle’s own music was filled with majesty and awe to the snowy landscapes, making the most of the Philharmonic Orchestra’s power and subtlety”.
Liverpool Post

“And for the most part it was precision timing in a programme carefully constructed by Harle, who has also composed a series of very attractive, melodic and majestic pieces to act as prologue and epilogue and a quartet of short sequences charting the moon’s path across Arctic skies”.
Liverpool Echo

“The marriage of footage of the Aurora Borealis and the Phil shimmering beneath in another excerpt from Rautavaara was nothing less than hypnotic, and a beautifully realised finale from Sibelius’s Symphony No 5 accompanied swooping aerial shots of lofty peaks, fissured glaciers and sculpted icebergs”.
Liverpool Echo

“Polar is a unique concert experience during which breathtaking footage of the Arctic and Antarctic is accompanied by carefully chosen orchestral pieces, each handpicked by conductor John Harle who took the helm guiding the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra through each exquisite movement”.
Click Liverpool

Performances

23 October 2011 Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester With Manchester Camerata

11 December 2011 National Concert Hall, Dublin With RTE

21 December 2011 Symphony Hall, Birmingham With CBSO

ECSTASY OF GOLD' - EMI CLASSICS

John Harle is producer, arranger and co-performer on this EMI Classics release of the music of Ennio Morricone, which features Japanese saxophonist Yasuto Tanaka, for release in February 2012. Recorded in Tokyo, and including suites from 'Once Upon a time in the West' and 'The Mission', the CD also includes lesser-known Morricone from the 1960s that John has chosen for the CD, including 'Striptease' from 'Machine Gun McCain', and 'Matto Caldo, Soldo, Morto - Girotondo' from 'Dirty Angels'.

LUCIAN FREUD - BBC TELEVISION - 'IMAGINE'

Following the death of the great British artist Lucian Freud in July 2011, BBC's 'Imagine' series have commissioned a 90 minute documentary from film-maker Randall Wright, to be presented by Alan Yentob. John's score for the documentary is for full, live, orchestral forces, and mirrors the muscular, tactile and earthy nature of much of Freud's work.

SOSPIRO MUSIC

Sospiro Music is a new CD and live event company involving saxophonists John Harle, Rob Buckland, Tim Garland and Simon Haram. Launch concert in Spring 2012 at TESTBED 1 in Battersea, the Sospiro Music website will include CDs, downloads, news, events and a huge free archive of audio and video material from all Sospiro Music Artists. Sospiro Music will feature a new CD of John's music.

JOHN HARLE CD - 'THE LITTLE DEATH MACHINE'

Recording in Spring 2012, for release in Autumn 2012 - a CD of John's recent works, including the saxophone concertos 'The Little Death Machine', 'The Golden Demon', and 'Bluebird', the major choral work 'City Solstice', and new works for saxophone and strings.