In the twenty first century it appears that as a composer, Constant Lambert has finally arrived. Lambert's countrymen have finally accepted that his idiosyncratic and jazzy scores of the 1920s constitute something unique in the British musical firmament as opposed to the prevailing view that Lambert was a sort of second-string William Walton who ...
If what you're looking for is a single disc to convince you that the music of Bax is not all bombast, ballyhoo, and balderdash, try this one. With Bax's early tone poem Tintagel, coupled with his Seventh and last symphony, this disc has the best of both Bax's worlds. And in these muscular and direct but deeply affectionate interpretations of David ...
Forty years ago British serialist Elisabeth Lutyens could deride the compositions of Ralph Vaughan Williams as "cowpat music," but his reputation seems to be on the rise. CDs of obscure Vaughan Williams compositions in various genres have appeared, and the centerpiece of this Naxos release of mostly choral pieces is Willow-Wood, a work that has ...
The D'Oyly Carte Company made two stereo recordings of the major Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the 1960s and '70s, plus at least one of the minor ones. The recordings in this box set of re-issues were selected so that John Reed, reigning baritone at the time, appears in all the principal comedian roles. His patter isn't very rapid, but his ...
"Louis' art is not hard to follow. Louis' art is not hard to swallow." ("Everybody Loves Louis" from Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim) It's not that Alwyn's a simp -- there's heart, soul, and sincerity in his music -- and it's not that Alwyn's simple -- there's more going on thematically than appears on the tonal surface. It's ...
To commemorate William Alwyn's centenary in 2005, Naxos began its series of his complete symphonies and other orchestral works with recordings of the single-movement Symphony No. 5, "Hydriotaphia"; the Concerto for harp and orchestra, "Lyra Angelica"; and the two-movement Symphony No. 2. This composer is most famous for his scores for numerous ...
Epoch has gathered five pieces by British composers written in response to the Great War. There is no chest-thumping nationalism evident here, but deeply sad portraits of the devastation of war. The centerpiece is Elgar's three-movement cantata, The Spirit of England, for soprano, tenor, chorus, and orchestra, based on freshly written poetry by ...
Even though he was English-born and -bred, Arnold Bax was fascinated in his youth by Celtic and Nordic folklore, and was inspired to compose his most popular symphonic poems around Cornish, Irish, Scottish, and Norwegian subjects. The most successful of these works is Tintagel (1919), a dramatically turbulent but also luxuriant orchestral ...
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