It was the release of this disc in 1990 that began the miniscule Bantock revival of the later years of the twentieth century. How could it not? With Bantock's Celtic Symphony from 1940 scored for full string orchestra plus a lush six harps performed with voluptuous sentimentality by Vernon Handley and the Royal Philharmonic and recorded in ...
The second disc in Vernon Handley and the Royal Philharmonic's series of recordings of the music of Granville Bantock is just as rich and ripe as their first disc. Bantock's Fifne at the Fair from 1911 is lush and luxuriant with sensuous melodies and seductive harmonies and although Beecham used to make a specialty of the work, Handley and the RPO ...
Dutton's British Composers Conduct & Other Rarities consists of a program of historical recordings dating from 1927-1952 in excellent overall sound in a number of twentieth century English works, not one of which will be readily familiar to most. Regrettably, British Composers Conduct & Other Rarities doesn't get off to a good start. Granville ...
Granville Bantock (1868-1946) was never one for doing things on a small scale, and his complete setting of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyám attests to the scope of his vision. The oratorio, which lasts over three hours and requires a huge orchestra and chorus, is unlikely to find a place on many concert programs, ...
One generation's pornography is another generation's curiosity. Grenville Bantock's setting of his wife's dilations on Sappho entitled Sappho from 1906 was supremely seductive to the Edwardian England of its day, a seductiveness spiced by the apparent uncertain nature of the sexual inclinations of Bantock's wife. But whether it is Sappho and her ...
If one imagined a more sensuous Elgar, a more vigorous Delius, a less rigorous Wagner, or a less morbid Mahler, one would have imagined the music of Granville Bantock, the fin de siècle English composer who contrived to continue composing late Romantic music straight through to his death in 1946. But if these admittedly invidious comparisons don ...
If Elgar and Vaughan Williams are first-rate English composers from the first half of the twentieth century, and Delius and Bax are second-rate, does that make Granville Bantock third-rate, Joseph Holbrooke fourth-rate, and Cyril Rootham fifth-rate? Maybe, but their music, at least as exemplified by the works on this Lyrita disc, is nevertheless ...
The idea of re-creating the sound and repertoire of a Scottish choir from the early twentieth century might sound obscure, but this Hyperion recording has succeeded well enough to merit reissue in the budget Helios line. The choir involved is the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, known simply as theOrpheus. It was founded officially in 1906, after taking ...
St. Martin's Chamber Choir, a mixed ensemble conducted by Timothy J. Krueger, has assembled a program of English partsongs on themes of night, dreams, and gentle melancholy. The composers range from the very well-known, such as Delius and Vaughan Williams, to those primarily known for their Anglican church music, such as Parry and Stanford, to the ...
Taken one piece at a time, the five works on this disc entitled Box of Delights, a collection of British light music, are utterly charming. More than one at a time, however, and the listener is likely to get the aural equivalent of a toothache. With the masterful but slightly sentimental conducting of Barry Wordsworth and the polished though ...
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