MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: English Music for Strings
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ARNOLD BAX / RICHARD ARNELL / STEPHEN DODGSON / NORMAN DEL MAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: English Music for Strings
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra; Martin Yates (conductor)
[ Dutton Epoch / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 20 April 2010
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Dutton Epoch explores unrecorded Arnold Bax! The strings of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic create a powerful impression in the Variations on the name Gabriel Fauré and the early Symphonic Serenade. These two tuneful works for strings are a delightful addition to the canon of recorded Bax. They are coupled with Richard Arnell's Classical Variations Op.1 - an essential footnote to the symphonies and a must for all collecting the Dutton Epoch Arnell series. The CD is completed by Stephen Dodgson's delightful Essay No.7 for orchestra, and a fascinating discovery - conductor Norman Del Mar's bold one movement Allegro Concertante for horn and strings. This muscular concerto-movement, brilliantly played by Stephen Bell, was written by a professional horn player, but with his friend Dennis Brain very much in mind.
World premiere recordings
"To avoid sounding mawkish, this kind of idiom needs a really focused sound in performance: Martin Yates conjures exactly that from the RLPO string section, which responds with serious class" Classic FM
"[Del Mar's Allegro Concertante] sounds as though the writing is grateful for the player...With Stephen Bell a brilliant soloist, Martin Yates draws strong and purposeful playing from the BBC Concert Orchestra...All the other works have Yates conducting the refined strings of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in equally strong and sensitive performances." Gramophone
Tracks:
Arnold Bax
Variations on the name GABRIEL FAURÉ for string orchestra and harp (1945 orch. 1949)
Symphonic Serenade for string orchestra (c.1911 real. 2009) realised by Graham Parlett
Stephen Dodgson
Essay no.7 (1992): Calmo e sostenuto
Richard Arnell
Classical Variations in C for strings op.1 (1939)
Norman Del Mar
Allegro Concertante for horn and string orchestra op.15 (1944)
