Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music; Concerto in A minor for Oboe; Flos Campi; Concerto in C major for Piano & Orch. 2018

Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music; Concerto in A minor for Oboe & Strings; Flos Campi; Concerto in C major for Piano & Orchestra

Жанр: Classical concerto
Страна-производитель диска: Made in the EU
Год издания диска: 2018
Издатель (лейбл): Chandos
Номер по каталогу: CHSA5201
Дата записи: 2018
Аудиокодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 01:22:14
Источник: релизер
-источник/ник/другое: basso profundo, подарок; Caterina Sforza - тяжёлая работа с cue, доп. сканы
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Треклист:

1. Serenade to Music
Oboe Concerto in A Minor

2. I. Rondo pastorale. Allegro moderato

3. II. Minuet & Musette. Allegro moderato

4. III. Scherzo. Presto
Flos campi

5. I. Sicut Lilium inter spinas

6. II. Jam enim hiems transiit

7. III. Quaesivi quem diligit anima mea

8. IV. En lectulum Salomonis sexaginta fortes ambiunt...

9. V. Revertere, revertere Sulamitis!

10. VI. Pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum
Piano Concerto in C Major

11. I. Toccata. Allegro moderato

12. II. Romanza. Lento

13. III. Fuga chromatica, Con finale alla tedesca

Исполнители

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Serenade to Music
Concerto in A minor for Oboe and Strings
Flos Campi
Concerto in C major for Piano and Orchestra
Carla Huhtanen (soprano in 01)
Emily D’Angelo (mezzo-soprano in 01)
Lawrence Wiliford (tenor in 01)
Tyler Duncan (baritone in 01)
Sarah Jeffrey (oboe in 02-04)
Teng Li (viola in 05-10)
Louis Lortie (piano in 11-13)
[u]Elmer Isler Singers[/u] (in 01, 05-10)
Lydia Adams (conductor & artistic director)
Jessie Iseler (general manager)
[u]Toronto Symphony Orchestra[/u]
Jonathan Crow (concertmaster)
Peter Oundjian (music director)
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor laureate)
Recording Date: November 15, 2017 & November 16, 2017
Recording Location: Roy Thomson Hall, Ontario, Canada
Release Date: June 1, 2018

About

With this celebratory release completing his fourteen year tenure as Music Director of the TSO, Peter Oundjian conducts an exquisite Vaughan Williams programme, supported by an all-Canadian cast of star soloists.
In the programme notes of the concert preceding the recording, Oundjian declared: ‘Ralph Vaughan Williams was possibly England’s most significant composer, and he is a personal favourite of mine. This [recording] presents some of his finest works, featuring soloists from the Orchestra as well as some of Canada's most notable solo artists, and the Elmer Iseler Singers. The lyrical and engaging Oboe Concerto is rarely heard, but it is one of his most inspired works. Serenade to Music showcases his exquisite vocal writing, which also figures prominently in the ravishingly beautiful Flos Campi, so surprisingly scored for solo viola, choir, and chamber orchestra. The Piano Concerto is more dramatic, with a juggernaut opening and a brilliant fugal finale.’

Review

AllMusic Review by James Manheim [-]
The British serialist Elisabeth Lutyens characterized Ralph Vaughan Williams as a member of the 'cowpat school.' The description is not only uncharitable but inaccurate: Vaughan Williams was interested not only in pastoralism but in war, religion (although he was an atheist), mysticism, the works of Shakespeare, American poetry, and much more. Musically he could sound, as in the Piano Concerto in C major heard here, like a pure Parisian neoclassicist, like a fairly hard-edged modernist, like a neo-Renaissance glorifier of British tradition, or, yes, like a pastoralist, as in the marvelous little Oboe Concerto in A minor on this Chandos release. But here's the thing: his treatment of pastoral, modal melodic ideas was endlessly varied. Sample the first movement of the oboe concerto and hear its formal freedom as the oboe weaves unpredictably in and out of the flow. The performances here are part of the attraction: this was a valedictory release with conductor Peter Oundjian at the helm of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and he gets top-notch work out of everyone involved. The Elmer Iseler Singers do a strong impression of the plummy British choral style, and pianist Louis Lortie gives the right joyous edge to the Piano Concerto. The Toronto Symphony sounds terrific on its home ground, at the Roy Thomson Hall, and the end result is a fine Vaughan Williams album, one of many to have appeared on the market in the late 2010s. And who listens to Elisabeth Lutyens now unless they have to?