Whether comic or dramatic, Sir Malcolm Arnold's concert overtures are always entertaining fare: lavishly orchestrated, generously stocked with infectious melodies, and featuring not a few strokes of inspiration. Most notorious and hilarious of Arnold's bonbons is A Grand Grand Festival Overture, composed in 1956 for the Hoffnung Festival and ...
Great d'Indy from the Iceland Symphony Orchestra under Rumon Gamba? Why not? It should be possible -- both technically and theoretically. In their recordings for Naxos and Chandos, the Icelandic musicians have shown themselves to be a fully professional, deeply dedicated, and tightly polished orchestra capable of playing music of their countrymen ...
One often reads that Vincent d'Indy was an influential teacher who left a mark in the careers of composers as diverse as Albert Roussel, Erik Satie, Isaac Albéniz, Joseph Canteloube, Darius Milhaud, and Arthur Honegger, to name just a few. Yet his own music has not thrived as well as his students' works, and recordings have been rather spotty for ...
After producing manifold high-quality volumes on British film music composers ranging from Addinsell to Vaughan Williams, Chandos Movies turns its attention to two prominent English composers whose individual output for film doesn't amount to enough to fill a whole CD: Constant Lambert and Lord Berners. These two were friends, and this is more ...
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's soundtrack for The Sea Hawk is among his most highly regarded and influential scores, and its extraordinary post-Romantic richness and modern complexity mark it as a creative highpoint in his career and an artistic pinnacle of Hollywood film music. The 106 minutes Korngold composed have been edited by conductor Rumon ...
British composer John Addison was capable of great things both within and without his work for the film industry; witness his bright and sparkling concert works such as his Trumpet Concerto, Partita for string orchestra, and the 1955 musical Cranks. That Addison didn't always put the measure of his talent into the service of film scoring, yet ...
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