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Roussel Spider's Banquet

Albert ROUSSEL (1869-1937)
The Spider’s Banquet
RSNO Deneve

No. 8.572243
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Delius/Ireland Evening Songs

DELIUS & IRELAND
Evening Songs
Julian Lloyd Webber

No. 8.572902
CD

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Works:
The Spider’s Banquet
Padmâvatî Ballet Suites Nos 1 and 2


Artists:
Royal Scottish National Orchestra • Stéphane Denève

One of Roussel’s most performed orchestral works, The Spider’s Banquet was composed during his earlier impressionistic period, and depicts the beauty and violence of insect life in a garden. Roussel’s experiences as a lieutenant in the French Navy first introduced him to Eastern influences, and the ‘opera-ballet’ Padmâvatî was inspired by his later visit to the ancient city of Chittor in Rajasthan state of western India. It uses aspects of Indian music to evoke this city’s legendary siege by the Mongols. This is the fifth and final volume in Stéphane Denève and the RSNO’s acclaimed survey of Roussel’s orchestral works. “An excellent disc, splendidly and idiomatically performed and a superb advertisement for composer, conductor and orchestra. Highly recommended.” (Gramophone on Vol. 4 / 8.572135)
Stéphane Denève is the newly-appointed Chief Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) and, since 2005, Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. The first disc of their survey of the works of Albert Roussel for Naxos won a Diapason d’Or de l’année in 2007.

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Works:
Frederick DELIUS (1862-1934)
Sunset • Birds in the High Hall Garden* In the Seraglio Garden • Love’s Philosophy • Over the Mountains High Serenade from Hassan • Through Long, Long Years • Little Birdie Slumber Song • With Your Blue Eyes
John IRELAND (1879-1962)
Spring Sorrow • Evening Song* • Sea Fever • The Holy Boy • Baby • The Three Ravens • Hope • Ladslove • Summer Schemes • Her Song • In Summer Woods*

Artists:
Julian Lloyd Webber, cello • Jiaxin Cheng, cello • John Lenehan, piano

Frederick Delius’s beautiful songs show his extraordinary gift for melody. John Ireland admired Delius enormously and his songs are inspired by a wide variety of literature, including his hugely popular setting of John Masefield’s Sea Fever. Renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber celebrates both composers’ remarkable melodic gifts in these sensitive arrangements, and pianist John Lenehan has received great acclaim for his Naxos recordings of Ireland’s complete piano music. This recording revives a tradition which was common at the beginning of the last century, arranging the best of vocal music for instruments, of which the singing voice of the cello is one of the best suited. The performing cast here is something of a dream team. Julian Lloyd Webber’s large following will take little persuasion to explore his playing on this beautiful CD, and he is joined both by his cellist wife Jiaxin Cheng and Ireland expert John Lenehan, whose recordings include the Gramophone awardwinning Michael Nyman Piano Concerto (8.554168).


Rimsky-Korsakov Orch Suites

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908)
Orchestral Suites
SS Schwarz

No. 8.572787
CD

Brahms Choral Music

Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Choral Music
WPO Wit

No. 8.572694
CD

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Works:
The Snow Maiden • Sadko • Mlada • Le Coq d’Or (Orchestral Suites)



Artists:
Seattle Symphony • Gerard Schwarz

Rimsky-Korsakov’s orchestral genius shines through in his colourful operatic suites, and that from his final opera Le Coq d’or is richly dramatic and expressive. The complicated folk-based story of the Snow Maiden is simplified into four enchanting movements, and that of Sadko into a single, radiantly descriptive tone-poem. The thrilling legend of Mlada is represented by vivid dances and a final Cortège. Gerard Schwarz’s recording of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade (8.572693) with the Seattle Symphony was described as ‘absolutely terrific’. (ClassicsToday.com)

‘Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony conjure up a scintillating aura of the myth, magic and melodic allure that are fundamental to Rimsky-Korsakov’s style. There is plenty of energy coupled with subtlety in conveying a radiant spectrum of instrumental colours.’
Daily Telegraph

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Works:
Ave Maria Op 12 • Begräbnisgesang Op 13 • Alto Rhapsody Op 53 • Schicksalslied Op 54 • Nänie Op 82 • Gesang der Parzen Op 89


Artists:
Ewa Wolak, contralto Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra • Antoni Wit



Brahms’s first connection with choral music came in 1857, and his first appointment in Vienna, in 1863, was to conduct the Singakademie. He premièred A German Requiem in the city and wrote widely for choral forces, taking a variety of poetic source material. Begräbnisgesang (Funeral Hymn) evinces a great feeling of solemnity, whilst Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) is an urgent, volatile work. Nänie was written as a lament for the death of the painter Anselm Feuerbach, and the Alto Rhapsody has remained one of the greatest works for contralto in the repertoire.
Antoni Wit, one of the most highly regarded Polish conductors, studied conducting with Henryk Czyz and composition with Krzysztof Penderecki at the Academy of Music in Kraków, subsequently continuing his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 2002 he became managing and artistic director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.


Bowen Viola Sonatas

Edwin York BOWEN (1884-1961)
Viola Sonatas
Bridge Duo

No. 8.572580
CD

Braga Santos Alfama

Joly Braga SANTOS
(1924-1988)
Alfama
RSNO Cassuto

No. 8.572815
CD

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Works:
Viola Sonata No 1 in C minor, Op 18 Phantasy, Op 64 Viola Sonata No 2 in F major, Op 22


Artists:
The Bridge Duo (Matthew Jones, viola • Michael Hampton, piano)



The Bridge Duo’s warmly received recital disc of English Music for Viola (8.572579) is joined here by a programme of York Bowen’s brilliant pieces for viola and piano. This new recording will provide fresh impetus to these relatively under-represented masterpieces. Matthew Jones (top) is violist of the Bridge Duo (with pianist Michael Hampton), and a professor at Trinity College of Music, Royal Welsh College and Charterhouse International Music Festival. He has given masterclasses around the world.

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Works:
Abertura Sinfónica No. 3 (Symphonic Overture No. 3) • Elegia à memória de Vianna da Motta (Elegy in memory of Vianna da Motta) • Alfama, Suite de Bailado (Alfama, Ballet Suite) • Variations for Orchestra • Three Symphonic Sketches

Artists:
Royal Scottish National Orchestra • Álvaro Cassuto

Joly Braga Santos composed in a wide variety of forms, faithfully mirrored in this selection of his highly appealing music. The Elegy was written for his famous compatriot, the pianist Vianna da Motta, whilst the Symphonic Overture No. 3 utilises his own brand of folkloric material. Braga Santos’s Three Symphonic Sketches offer colouristic virility, full of supercharged rhythmic energy. The Variations for Orchestra reflects a compositional change, more elusive but highly subtle, and Alfama is a delightful ballet score. ‘Don’t miss this one!’ wrote ClassicsToday of Álvaro Cassuto’s recording of the Second Symphony on Marco Polo 8.225216.


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