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2024-02-15 07:23:00
A Lionel Tertis Celebration: Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu; Harmonia Mundi
A Lionel Tertis Celebration - York Bowen, Rebecca Clarke, Vaughan Williams, Lionel Tertis, Frank Bridge, Brahms, Schumann, Faure, William Wolstenholme, Kreisler, W.H. Reed, Eric Coates, Cecil Forsyth, John Ireland, and Mendelssohn; Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu; Harmonia Mundi12 February 2024Timothy Ridout's warm tribute to Lionel Tertis moves between powerful dramatic utterance and more domesticated, salon pieces, with every piece in a finely judged performanceInspired by the supple violin playing of Fritz Kreisler, though entirely self-taught, Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) made it his mission to bring the viola back to the foreground in classical music. In order to create a repertoire, Tertis adapted existing material (famously creating a viola concerto from Elgar's Cello Concerto, see my review of Ridout's 2023 recording of this), as well as badgering composers for pieces. Like other such figures (his friend the cellist Pablo Casals, and the guitarist Segovia), Tertis' taste in music was relatively conservative and famously […]
2024-02-14 13:34:08
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2023-12-15 00:00:00
Another miscellany of orchestral and vocal music (Bostock, Corp, Davan Wetton, DePaul Wind Ensemble, Dreier, Elder, Pesek, The Albion Ensemble)
[…] Mate - Overture [6'46]05 Howard Flynn: Clatter of the Clogs. A Novelty Fox-Trot [3'02]06 Landon Ronald: In an Eastern Garden. No.2 from 'The Garden of Allah' [4'38]07 Armstrong Gibbs (ed. M Pilkington): The Betrothal Ballet Music, op.34 10'40]08 Montague Birch: Dance of the Nymphs [3'56]09 Ina Boyle: The Magic Harp ^ [9'16]10 Ludwig Pleier: Karlsbad's Dolls' Dance. Characteristic Piece [3'35]11 Rutland Boughton: The Immortal Hour. Love Duet for Orchestra [6'06]12 Montague Birch: Intermezzo (Pizzicati) [4'33]13 Cecil White (reconstructed M Riley): A Sierra Melody [3'36]Malcolm Riley- organ*, Eluned Pierce- harp^, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ronald CorpDutton Epoch CDLX7276 [recorded July 2011; issued 2011][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset, UKRecording engineer: Dexter Newman; Producer: Michael Ponder"The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra revisits music played between 1893-1934 by the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra and its founder conductor Sir Dan Godfrey."Leoš Janáček:01 - 04 Dunaj 'Danube'. […]
2023-05-19 00:00:00
Box of Delights and Bliss, Delius and Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works (Barry Wordsworth et al)
Box of Delights: British Light Music Gems 01 - 04 Phylis Tate: London Fields ^ [13'14]05 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Four Characteristic Waltzes, op.22 - No. 3, Valse de la reine [4'30]06 - 07 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Three-fours. Valse suite, op.71 - No. 2, Andante & No. 5, Andante molto [7'00]08 - 12 Granville Bantock (orch. O'Neill): Russian scenes [14'18]13 - 16 Cecil Armstrong-Gibbs: Fancy Dress. Dance suite, op.82 * [17'22]17 - 20 Elisabeth Lutyens: En voyage. Suite * [15'02]London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Simon Joly*Lyrita SRCD214 [recorded March 1988 and August & September 1989; CD issued 2007][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Walthamstow Town Hall and Henry Wood Hall, London.Recording engineers: John Dunkerley and not stated^; Producers: Andrew Cornall and not stated^Arthur Bliss:01 - 04 A Colour Symphony [32'30]05 - 18 Metamorphic Variations [37'40]BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Barry WordsworthNimbus NI5294 [recorded […]
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