Britain's William Alwyn is often classed as a neo-Romantic traditionalist; the booklet for this Naxos disc likens him to the roughly contemporary American Samuel Barber. But this collection of chamber music and songs, most of it never recorded before, reveals a somewhat different Alwyn -- not a modernist surely, but a composer who was aware that ...
What the listener will think of this CD will depend partly on what he or she thinks of Rutter's musical rendition of sentimentalist religion. It's nicely executed here -- as nicely as on Rutter's own recordings with his handpicked choir -- by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, under Timothy Brown. And the two outer works on the album are ...
The choice of daffodils as the theme for this album and one of the works contained herein is not arbitrary; composer John Metcalf is Welsh, and the daffodil is the national flower of Wales. Metcalf's music has an outward conservatism that conceals internal economy of an almost modernist-systematic sort: as he puts it, "Since my music sometimes ...
Although best known for the edgy modernism of his three symphonies, this disc by David Lloyd-Jones and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic proves that there were other sides to English composer Alan Rawsthorne. He's a bon vivant in the insouciant Street Corner Overture, an ardent imperialist in the mighty Coronation Overture, a stylistic chameleon in ...
William Alwyn (1905-1985) was an inspired and accomplished English composer of unquestioned skill and professionalism, but his music, while immediately attractive, never quite rises to the level that would put him in the first rank of composers. His harmonic language is reminiscent of Vaughan Williams, but his melodies don't have the folk-like ...
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