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
Dame Sarah Connolly; Joseph Middleton
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Halle Choir; John Storgards
Chad Smith; Sinfonia of London; John Wilson
Barry Douglas
Iceland Symphony Orchestra; Eva Ollikainen
Madeleine Dring; Julius Drake
Rolf Gupta & Oslo filharmonien
Ketil Bjornstad & Sandra Lied Haga
Vox Urbane
Sophie Dervaux, La Folia Barockorchester
Sergio Vartolo
Robert Plane (clarinet); Elias String Quaret, Gould Piano Trio; James Gilchrist (tenor); Tim Horton
Nordic Affect/Marco Casonato/Massimo Marchese/La Spagna baroque orchestra/Alejandro Marias
Michael Foyle, Iain Burnside