Composer
CHRISTOPHER
GUNNING
Christopher Gunning was a British composer of music for films, television and the concert hall. He composed 13 symphonies, numerous concertos and other concert works, and a large number of scores for films and television dramas, including Agatha Christie’s ‘Poirot,’ La Vie en Rose, Middlemarch, Cold Lazarus, Rebecca, Under Suspicion, Firelight, The Big Battalions, Wild Africa, When the Whales Came and Porterhouse Blue. He won 4 BAFTA and 3 Ivor NovelloAwards, and BASCA’s prestigious Gold Badge Award.
In hisconcert music he developed an individual yet approachable, colourful, and highly expressive language which frequently gives his music a strongly dramatic and emotional flavour. In film, he worked on a wide variety of productions, ranging from period to contemporary dramas and wildlife films. In a career spanning some 50 yeas he worked in just about every musical area; he loved working with orchestras, both as composer and conductor, and was equally at home with computers.
Announcement: Christopher Gunning
(5th August 1944 – 25th March 2023)
Best Selling CDs
Out of stockCD – POIROT
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Out of stockCD – SKYLINES (CONTAINS THE THEME FROM ‘AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT’)
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Out of stockCD – SYMPHONIES 2, 10 AND 12
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Out of stockCD SYMPHONY NO 6 NIGHT VOYAGE SYMPHONY NO 7
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Signum presents the recording of Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7 along with ‘Night Voyage’, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
“...a Christmas gift for his daughter, Verity. And what a gift it is! ...This is beguiling music.”
Classical Source
“...Gunning shows the potential for making a major contribution to the future of British music, and this release makes it well worth your while getting to know who he is right now."
Fanfare Magazine
“...Christopher Gunning is a resourceful and imaginative composer, clearly fascinated by the single movement form in which both of these symphonies are cast... the third immediately takes a grip on the imagination and offers the listener a full symphonic workout”