Saxophonist John Harle who recently won an Ivor Novello Award for the soundtrack to Lucian Freud: Painted Life is to release Art Music in the autumn, it’s been confirmed. The album to be released by Sospiro Records, also home to Steve Lodder and Rob Buckland, features ‘Tainted Love’ singer Marc Almond on ‘The Arrival of Spring’ with lyrics based on a poem by William Blake. Harle, best known for his soundtrack to TV drama Silent Witness and as a founder member of the Michael Nyman Band, who has just released a charity EP ‘Round Midnight’ in tribute to the late Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, was inspired for Art Music by the paintings of Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Francis Bacon, John Craxton and John O Connor. Classical soprano Sarah Leonard, Czech violinist Pavel Šporcl and the Doric Sting Quartet are also to feature on the album to be released in late-September.
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