Checkmate: Suite / Horoscope: Suite / Facade: Suite
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BLISS / LAMBERT / WALTON
Checkmate: Suite / Horoscope: Suite / Facade: Suite
English Northern Sinfonia, David-Lloyd Jones
[ Hyperion Helios / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 1 June 2003
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'The music for Horoscope is sheer delight, and it seems incredible that the only previous complete recording of the suite was made in the mid-1950s. David Lloyd-Jones is sympathetic to its specifically English atmosphere. Excellent playing and first-class sound.'
- Rosette (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide
'A joy to welcome... All in all a disc not to be missed' (Gramophone)
Rosette Recording Penguin Stereo Guide
'The music for Horoscope is sheer delight, and it seems incredible that the only previous complete recording of the suite was made in the mid-1950s. David Lloyd-Jones is sympathetic to its specifically English atmosphere. Excellent playing and first-class sound.'
- Rosette (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide
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'The music of all three is essentially English, splendidly dramatic and filled with wonderful tunes' (BBC Music Magazine)
'The music for Horoscope is sheer delight' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)
'Strongly recommended' (Fanfare, USA)
Recorded in the Great Hall of Leeds University on 2, 3 June 1990
Tracks:
Constant Lambert Horoscope
Dance for the followers of Leo [4'36]
Saraband for the followers of Virgo [5'58]
Valse for the Gemini [4'18]
Bacchanale [4'30]
Invocation to the Moon and Finale [7'55]
William Walton Façade
Fanfare [0'32]
Scotch Rhapsody [1'10]
Valse [2'59]
Tango Pasodoble [1'52]
Swiss Yodelling Song [2'15]
Country Dance [2'02]
Polka [1'17]
Noche espanola [2'33]
Popular Song [2'15]
Old Sir Faulk [1'58]
Tarantella-Sevillana [2'22]
Arthur Bliss Checkmate
Prologue: The Players [6'11]
Dance of the Four Knights [3'46]
Entry of the Black Queen [5'54]
The Red Knight's Mazurka [2'46]
Ceremony of the Red Bishops [2'25]
Finale: Checkmate [3'48]
