095115245828

Elgar:caractacus Op 35

Lso/Hickox

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: CHAN241-58

Release Date:  28 July 2016

Label:  Chandos - 241 / Chandos

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  095115245828

Genres:  Classical  

Composer/Series:  Elgar

  • Description

    Re-issued from a 1992 recording, when Richard Hickox was Associate Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, this Elgar's Caractacus has much to offer. The piece itself, which Elgar composed for the 1898 Leeds Festival, exudes his power of invention and luminous skills at orchestration, foreshadowing his next project, the masterful 'Enigma' Variations. A Gramophone review affirmed that 'There can be nothing but praise for Richard Hickox's fluent, sensitive direction and the enthusiastic, full-blooded backcloth provided by the LSO. Bouquets, too, for the London Symphony Chorus whose terrific unanimity of attack, sensitivity to dynamics and wonderfully true intonation are something to marvel at. In the title-role David Wilson-Johnson makes a nobly sonorous showing, a pure-toned Judith Howarth is touchingly vulnerable as Caractacus's daughter, Eigen, and Arthur Davies sings with unaffected sincerity in the part of Orbin, her minstrel lover. A typically ripe, wide-ranging Chandos recording into the bargain.'

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Watchmen, Alert!
      • 2. Watchmen, Alert! The King Is Here
      • 3. Father!... Sire and King
      • 4. At Eve to the Greenwood, We Wander'd Away
      • 5. On the Ocean and the River
      • 6. Rest, Weary Monarch
      • 7. Tread the Mystic Circle Round
      • 8. Lord of Dread and Lord of Pow'r
      • 9. Bard, What Read Ye in the Field...?
      • 10. Leap to Light, My Brand of Fight
      • 11. Hence, Ere the Druid's Wrath Is Woke
      • 12. Woodland Interlude
      • 13. Come! Beneath Our Woodland Bow'rs
      • 14. O'er-arch'd By Leaves the Streamlet Weaves
      • 15. Last Night Beneath the Sacred Oak
      • 16. Come! Beneath Our Woodland Bow'rs

      Disc 2

      • 1. Wild Rumours Shake Our Calm Retreat
      • 2. When the Glow of the Evening Had Died from the Hill
      • 3. We Were Gather'd By the River
      • 4. O My Warriors, Tell Me Truly
      • 5. Captive Britons, See Them! Hark
      • 6. Processional Music - The March Triumphal Thunders
      • 7. Unbind His Hands, Silence the Trumpets
      • 8. Heap Torment Upon Torment, Woe On Woe
      • 9. Slay the Briton
      • 10. I Plead Not for Myself
      • 11. Grace from the Roman!
      • 12. The Clang of Arms Is Over
      • 13. Introduction. Worcester Castle. Pomposo - - London Symphony Orchestra
      • 14. Toccata. Tournament. Allegro Molto - - London Symphony Orchestra
      • 15. Fugue. The Cathedral. Andante - - London Symphony Orchestra
      • 16. Minuet. Commandery. Moderato - - London Symphony Orchestra
      • 17. Coda. Lento - London Symphony Orchestra

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