[ Philips SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 20 March 2016
Simply idyllic, this 2-CD set couples a traversal of English seasons (CD1) with idyllic music for cello and orchestra by English composers, all rapturously performed by the Academy and Marriner.
Bax:
November Woods
Bridge:
Enter Spring
Summer
Christmas Dance 'Sir Roger de Coverley'
Davies, Walford:
Solemn Melody, for cello & organ
Delius:
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Caprice & Elegy
Dyson:
Fantasy (from Prelude, Fantasy & Chaconne)
Elgar:
Romance, Op. 62
Idyll, Op. 4, No. 1
Foulds:
April-England, Op. 48 No. 1
Grainger:
Harvest Hymn
Youthful Rapture
Brigg Fair
Holst:
Invocation
Ireland:
The Holy Boy
(trans. Christopher Palmer)
Scott, C:
Pastoral and Reel
Vaughan Williams:
Tuba Concerto in F minor: Romanza
(arr. for cello & orchestra by Vaughan Williams)