The Melting Ice4181/1Mournful cello melody set against a desolate & foreboding soundscape created entirely from cello textures2:29
Richard Harwood
Richard Harwood (PRS)
An award-winning cellist and soloist for movie soundtracks.
Latest Tracks
- Patterns In Nature4181/2Graceful, flowing cello ensemble accompanied by fretless bass & percussion. Calming & beautiful, inspired by nature3:03
- A Frosty Reception4181/3Concerned, reflective cello melody with percussion over a tense repeated figure & string drones2:43
- The Dunes4181/4Darkly mysterious Middle Eastern theme with serpentine cello melody over darbukas, butones & harmonic drones3:32
- Uncertain Futures4181/5Sophisticated, gently driving cello ensemble & percussion slowly builds in hopefulness & expectation. Journeying feel2:56
- Cellospheres4181/7Melancholy, atmospheric & mysterious cello melody with a spiritual feel soars over moody string drone textures3:35
The story behind the sound
Since his concerto debut at the age of ten, the English 'cellist Richard Harwood has performed in major venues throughout the world including the Royal Albert, Wigmore, and Carnegie Halls Musikverein, Concertgebouw and Alte Oper. As concerto soloist, Richard has worked with conductors such as Mark Wigglesworth, Case Scaglione, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Okko Kamu, and Yehudi Menuhin, and with numerous orchestras including The Philharmonia, RTÉ NSO, Auckland Philharmonia and Ural Philharmonic. Richard's discography includes a debut disc (EMI Classics) with pianist Christoph Berner, “Composing Without The Picture” (Resonus); a solo album of concert works written by film composers, Christopher Gunning's Cello Concerto and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, both with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He is regularly featured as a soloist on movie soundtracks, including Patrick Doyle’s score to Kenneth Branagh’s Murder On The Orient Express. Richard was appointed principal cellist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 2018. He has also been guest principal at the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, as well as the Royal Opera House, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, BBC NOW and RTÉ Concert orchestras.
Award-winning cellist Richard Harwood has performed in major venues worldwide and appeared on Radio 3, Classic FM and Radio France and as a soloist on movie soundtracks.