Release Date: 30 April 2021
Label: Cpo - Full Price / CPO
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 761203539529
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Composer/Series: Christopher Wilson and Sir Granville Bantock
Description
Our second CD with music for strings by British composers features most highly creative compositions by Sir Granville Bantock and Christopher Wilson. When Bantock reached the pinnacle of his fame, the Three Choirs Festival held in Hereford in 1912 ordered a work for string orchestra from him. The result was the four-movement Serenade for Strings, to which he assigned the subtitle 'In the Far West'. Bantock’s string movements are distinguished by an impressive tonal richness. After the performance Douglas Bostock remarked: 'I am truly amazed – this is anything but a ‘Serenade,’ as the innocuous title suggests. The succinct, symphonically developed music is nothing other than a string symphony with a demanding writing style representing a genuine tour de force'. Moreover, extensive recorded material documents the Scottish melodies used by Bantock in his Scenes from the Scottish Highlands. For them he chose the finely managed format of three fast dances separated by two euphonious slow movements.
Slovak Chamber Orchestra; Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein; Salzburger Hofmusik; Bohdan Warch
Gernot Submuth; Ramon Jaffe; Monica Gutman
Weithaas/Rheinische/Raiskind
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