Sir Charles Mackerras conducts.Sir Charles Mackerras conducts (Delius, Dvorak, Elgar, Suk SUK Sveriges Unga Katoliker (Swedens Young Catholics) , Vorisek) Pamela Frank--violin, English Chamber Orchestra The English Chamber Orchestra is a chamber orchestra based in London. It has its roots in the Goldsbrough Orchestra, founded in 1948 by Lawrence Leonard and Arnold Goldsbrough. , Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera Welsh National Opera (WNO) is a touring opera company founded in Cardiff, Wales in 1943. The WNO now tours Wales, the United Kingdom and the rest of the world extensively. Annually, it performs over 120 main scale operas. , Chorus of the Welsh National Opera, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as “Britain's national orchestra”. , Sir Charles Mackerras. Production: Volker Strauss, James Mallinson, Chris Hazell, Andrew Cornall. Text: Eng., Ger. Recorded: 1969-1997. Vydano: 2005. TT: 75:30, 79:46, 81:09. ADD, DDD DDD Direct Distance Dialing DDD Digital/Digital/Digital (audio CD format, recording/mixing/mastering) DDD Degenerative Disc Disease DDD Domain Driven Design DDD Data Display Debugger (GNU Project) . 3CD Decca 475 7061 (Universal Music). Sir Charles Mackerras is a dedicated interpreter of Czech music and has promoted it for many years. The choice of recordings on this CD set reflects this fact in the proportion of Czech composers to composers from Mackerras's own country. Two of the CDs are devoted to Czech music and one to English music. There is no need to stress Mackerras's affinity for the music of Antonin Dvorak and Leos Janacek--here we find Dvorak's Czech Suite and Romance in F minor, and from Janacek the prelude Jealousy. The next composer is Josef Suk, who is represented by three pieces--Fantastic Scherzo scherzo (skĕr`tsō) [Ital.,=joke], in music, term denoting various types of composition, primarily one that is lively and presents surprises in the rhythmic or melodic material. , Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra (the brilliant Pamela Frank, who also plays the Dvorak Romance) and A Summer's Tale. The last composer from Bohemia is Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek and his famous Symphony in D major. As regards the Vorisek, I only started to like Mackerras's interpretation after listening several times, and even then I still didn't find it a hundred-percent convincing. Vorisek just isn't Beethoven, after all, and the excessively lively tempo of the first movement blurs the outlines of its thematic material (it is around 1.5 minutes shorter than on Petr Altrichter's recording with the SWF See Flash. (filename extension) swf - /S W F/ The filename extension for Adobe Shockwave Flash animated vector graphics files, common on the World-Wide Web. A rarely used alternative expansion is "Small Web Format". Symphony Orchestra, for example) while the excessively sharp accents break up its structure, and in the second movement (shorter than Altrichter's by just under a minute) it means that the charming melodies lose their intimacy. Compared to the Slav music, the English music in the set is like a quiet shady valley in contrast to a lush mountain meadow. Frederick Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring is a tone poem composed in 1912 by Frederick Delius; it was first performed in Leipzig on October 2, 1913. The work opens with a slow three-bar sequence; its first theme is an exchange of cuckoo calls, first for oboe, then for divided flows in an unbroken, disciplined way, just like his Brigg Fair, An English Rhapsody and A Song of the High Hills. Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations is a showcase work of English music, and this recording offers a marvellous opportunity for savouring its instrumentation and treatment of themes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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