Sydney Symphony Orchestra & Mark Wigglesworth
Release Date: 06 February 2012
Label: Melba
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9314574113129
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Arcadia Lost presents a feast for lovers of English music, featuring three Ralph Vaughan Williams' masterpieces and one of Benjamin Britten's in performances given by, mostly, Australian musicians.
Renowned British conductor Mark Wigglesworth directs the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in three of the works, all recorded live at Sydney Opera House. The viola soloist in Flos Campi is Roger Benedict with the choir Cantillation, while Michael Dauth is the violinist in The Lark Ascending. Following an explosive performance of Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem, the final work is Vaughan Williams' song-cycle On Wenlock Edge for tenor, piano and string quartet, performed by Steve Davislim with Benjamin Martin and the Hamer Quartet.
The glistening solo violin of Michael Dauth, concert master of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, captures the lark's swirling flight in Vaughan Williams' hugely popular The Lark Ascending. In the composer's much less well-known Flos Campi ("flower of the field"), the SSO's principal viola Roger Benedict gives glorious voice to this most passionate music for viola, chorus and orchestra. The Song of Solomon, one of the greatest love poems in all literature, is at the heart of this evocative piece.
In On Wenlock Edge tenor Steve Davislim brings the greatest tenderness and drama to the six settings of A.E. Houseman's A Shropshire Lad poems, which in Michael Kennedy's description in the booklet notes "tell of unrequited or unfaithful love and of soldiers marching away to die in foreign fields". The brilliant young Hamer Quartet and pianist Benjamin Martin vividly underscore the tumultuous emotions of the work.
Personnel: Michael Dauth (violin), Roger Benedict (viola), Cantillation (Michael Black, chorus master), Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth (conductor), Steve Davislim (tenor), Benjamin Martin (piano), Hamer Quartet
Tracklisting
The State Opera Of South Australia & Asher Fisch
The State Opera of South Australia & Asher Fisch
Asher Fisch State Opera
Timothy Young
Folksong Arrangements (Sacd)
Asher Fisch
Asher Fisch
Roger Benedict
Yoichi Sugiyama
David Rabinovich
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay, Aage Richard Meyer, Cam Kjoll, Ruth Potter
Joshua Bell
