It may come as a surprise to some that there is enough English music composed for the combination of flute, oboe, and piano to fill an entire CD, but, as this collection demonstrates, there is and a lot of it is quite good. And while some of the composers here will be unfamiliar except to fans of English music -- Eugene Goossens, Richard Rodney ...
Sir Eugene Goossens is most remembered for his energetic conducting career and his entrepreneurial skills, arranging concerts of new music and famously introducing Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps to English audiences; but virtually all of his own music has faded into obscurity. Hearing this 2004 Chandos release helps explain that misfortune, if ...
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 ...
Arbiter's Eugen d'Albert: The Centaur Pianist is a collection exclusively devoted to all but one of the surviving phonograph recordings of Scots pianist Eugen d'Albert, a veritable titan among pianist-composers of a very remote era. D'Albert emerges here, in recordings so rare that several exist only in single copies, as an audible representative ...
For all you fans of Eugene Goossens, the English conductor best known for his '50s recordings of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps and select works by Debussy and Ravel, this disc will be a treat and a delight. It opens with three recordings of works by Arnold Bax, a composer with whom Goossens was closely associated: a madly passionate Tintagel ...
Percy Grainger was one of the principal architects of the symphonic wind orchestra in modern times, and Chandos' Grainger: Transcriptions for Wind Orchestra is a survey of much of the arrangements Grainger made for wind groups from non-original sources. While the sources may have been non-original, Grainger's totally transformative approach to ...
The purpose behind this album is demonstrating the more resigned, elegiac reactions to the First World War among British poets and composers. It includes both musical setting of poems, performed by tenor Andrew Kennedy and pianist Julius Drake, as well as actor Simon Russell Beale reading poetry. The collection includes works by both well-known ...
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