Release Date: 30 November 2016
Label: Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113443724
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: NIXON
Description
This new series from Toccata Classics presents the music of a composer-conductor from Victorian England who has entirely disappeared from music history. Henry Cotter Nixon (1842–1907) turns out to have been one of the most accomplished English composers of his generation, with a style that takes in elements of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Verdi and Brahms. This series of three albums presents all his surviving orchestral music in its first-ever recordings. Nixon labelled his five-movement Palamon and Arcite a symphonic poem, and indeed, it is one of the first by a British composer, but in fact, it is more of a programmatic symphony, of the sort then being written by composers such as Goldmark and Raff.
Tracklisting
Sinfonia Varsovia; Ian Hobson
Tuuli Lindeberg; Martin Malmgren
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Andrew Manze
Dobromir Tsenov
Various Artists
Tamas Fejes; Balazs Renczes; Christopher Guild
Nora Luse
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra; Imants Resnis
