Release Date: 01 January 2017
Label: Chandos
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 095115193921
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: BRITISH TONE POEMS
Release Date: 01 January 2017
Label: Chandos
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 095115193921
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: BRITISH TONE POEMS
Description
Alongside their British Isles Overtures series, the BBC NOW and the conductor Rumon Gamba launch a project to bring often neglected symphonic poems by British composers to wider attention and fame. This first volume presents some of the most individual, yet rarely heard, British tone poems written in the early twentieth century, by composers ranging from the long-established Ralph Vaughan Williams and William Alwyn to Balfour Gardiner and Granville Bantock, giants in their time. Works include Bantock’s atmospheric The Witch of Atlas, based on a poem by Shelley, Frederic Austin’s symphonic rhapsody Spring, Gardiner’s evocation of summer A Berkshire Idyll, recorded here for the first time, and Gurney’s mysterious A Gloucestershire Rhapsody, never performed before 2010.
Tracklisting
Jonathan Aasgaard; Sinfonia of London; John Wilson
Sara Dowling; Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Halle Choir; John Storgards
Janacek:Martinu:Haas
Palm Court Theatre Order
Imogen Cooper
Sydney So:Pikler
Matilda Lloyd; Richard Gowers
Utrecht String Quartet, Ilona Timcenko
Trio Hermes/Ginevra Bassetti/ Francesca Giglio/Marianna Pulsoni
Simone Pierini
Reinhard Kluth
Ondrej Sindelar, Sergio Azzolini, Rosonanza Praga
Maria Umbert Kimura, Somerville College Choir; Will Dawes
Manuel Tomadin
Lilit Grigoryan, David Petersen