Rory Boyle's Capriccio

In 1998 the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland's tour included Boyle's CAPRICCIO which was given performances at venues including the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the London Proms. The work has subsequently been recorded on the orchestra's most recent CD with the leading Japanese conductor Junichi Hirokami. In the Proms programme, the conductor Nicholas Cleobury wrote, "While Boyle's Scottish roots are never far away, his music has a strong, mainstream European, Stravinsky-based rigour, with his own brand of virile, challenging, but always comprehensible counterpoint, dissonance which is hard-fought yet never gratuitous, an unsentimental lyricism and unerring sense of architecture".

Commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland with subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council. Recorded on 24th July 1998 in the Colosseum, Watford.

Conductor: Junichi Hirokami
Producer: Andrew Keener