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Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia and Walton: Belshazzar's Feast & Henry V (Andrew Davis, Leonard Slatkin & Willard White)
01 Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis [17'04]02 - 10 William Walton - Belshazzar's Feast * [33'09]Willard White- baritone, Leeds Festival Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus *; BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew DavisBBC MM83 [recorded September 1998 & April 1999*; issued with BBC Music Magazine in July 1999][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Gloucester Cathedral and Leeds Town Hall*, UKRecording engineers: not stated; Producer: Ann McKayOne of the finest performances and recordings of the Tallis Fantasia that I have heard.And for some more Walton:01 - 10 William Walton (arr. Christopher Palmer) - Henry V. A Shakespeare Scenario [60'28]Samuel West- narrator, BBC Singers, Trinity Boys Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard SlatkinBBC MM215 [recorded November 2001; issued with BBC Music Magazine in March 2002][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: BBC Maida Vale Studio 1, LondonRecording engineer: Neil Pemberton; Producer: Ann McKayDownload from […]
2019-05-13 09:00:26
Rating: 0 Vaughan Williams discovers Walt Whitman and studies with Maurice Ravel, who both influence his first great orchestral works. This continuously choral symphony sets words from Walt Whitman’s Sea Drift and Passage to India, abridged by the composer. The four movements relate to an expanded classical symphonic design of opening Allegro, slow movement, Scherzo, and Finale. Their titles are: ‘A Song for All Seas, All Ships’, ‘On the Beach at Night Alone’, ‘The Waves’, and ‘The Explorers’. Premiere: October 1910Leeds Town HallLeeds Festival Chorus/Orchestra On 12 October 1910, his […]
2019-02-14 05:42:00
Rule Britannia: Last Night of the Proms (CD review)
Paul Daniel, English Northern Philharmonia and Leeds Festival Chorus. Naxos 8.553981.The Naxos disclaimer reads, "This is a recording of music performed frequently at the Last Night of the Proms, but not of the event itself." Just so you don't think you're getting an actual live Royal Albert Hall performance as traditionally recorded by other labels. Nevertheless, the music is thoroughly English in spirit, and the disc represents a good value in popular chauvinistic English music. The program starts with Walton's "Crown Imperial," then goes on to what is practically England's second national anthem, "Jerusalem." It continues with the centerpiece of the collection, Sir Henry Wood's "Fantasia on British Sea Songs"; and it concludes with Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1." Paul Daniel In between these works are other pieces by Elgar, Arnold, Parry, and Walton. Maestro Paul Daniel, the English Northern Philharmonia, and the Leeds Festival Chorus play […]
2018-09-25 06:36:11
Marking the Centenary of the Armistice in Leeds
[…] and Leeds Playhouse co-production at the Howard Assembly Room tells the stories of women who volunteered on the front line, inspired by Helen Zenna Smith’s novel Not So Quiet, Radclyffe Hall’s war account in The Well of Loneliness, and the life of war artist and ambulance driver Olive Mudie-Cooke, , writer Jessica Walker and director Jacqui Honess-Martin combine staged scenes, film projections, music hall songs and forgotten rarities by early-20th century female composers.The BBC Philharmonic, Leeds Festival Chorus, the City of Glasgow Chorus, Cantabile Choir and soloists Evelina Dobračeva, Andrew Staples and Benjamin Appl, will be performing Britten's War Requiem, whilst the Orchestra of Opera North, the company’s Youth Chorus, Young Voices and Children’s Chorus perform a new micro-opera, The Songs of War by Will Todd. Another collaboration brings the Orchestra of Opera North together with St Peter’s Singers and Sir Michael Morpurgo for War Horse: The Story in Concert. […]
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