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| Management number | 205796034 | Release Date | 2025/10/22 | List Price | $78.30 | Model Number | 205796034 | ||
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Title: Orchestral Works
Artist: Sinfonia of London
Label: Chandos
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 095115532423
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2024-02-16
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD
The three composers whose works appear on this album are interconnected: Ravel was a mentor to Lennox Berkeley, and Berkeley to Pounds. Le Tombeau de Couperin marks Ravel's movement towards neoclassicism, it's forms and style a re-invention of ones from the French baroque. Originally written for solo piano, the movements of the suite were dedicated to friends whom Ravel had lost in the First World War. In 1919, he orchestrated four of the six movements (the version performed here). Berkeley met Ravel a number of times in the 1920s, working as an interpreter and tour-guide whilst Ravel was in London. Ravel advised him to study with Nadia Boulanger, which he did, between 1926 and 1932. Commissioned by Sir Arthur Bliss for the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1942, the Divertimento initially received a mixed reception, but has since found many supporters (including Pounds). The critic Peter Dickinson felt it showed an 'instinctive and unimpassioned creativeness associated with the French aesthetic, but by no means restricted to it'. Adam Pounds studied privately with Berkeley in London during the late 1970s, and in his own music has perpetuated the firm commitment of the two earlier composers to clarity and accessibility in everything they wrote. His Third Symphony was written in 2021 and is a response to the national lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Pounds states that the piece captures the 'sadness, humour, determination and defiance' which everyone faced at this time - not least musicians. Scored for relatively modest orchestral forces, the work is dedicated to Sinfonia of London and John Wilson who here give the work it's world première recording.
Tracks:
1.1 Tombeau de Couperin, M 68a (Suite for Orchestra)~I. Prélude. Vif
1.2 Tombeau de Couperin, M 68a (Suite for Orchestra)~II. Forlane. Allegretto
1.3 Tombeau de Couperin, M 68a (Suite for Orchestra)~III. Menuet. Allegro moderato - [Musette] - [Très lent]
1.4 Tombeau de Couperin, M 68a (Suite for Orchestra)~IV. Rigaudon. Assez vif - Moins vif - Premier Mouvement
1.5 Divertimento, Op. 18 in B flat major for Orchestra~I. Prelude. Moderato
1.6 Divertimento, Op. 18 in B flat major for Orchestra~II. Nocturne. Andante - Un poco più vivo - Tempo I
1.7 Divertimento, Op. 18 in B flat major for Orchestra~III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio. Meno mosso - Tempo I - Meno mosso - Tempo I
1.8 Divertimento, Op. 18 in B flat major for Orchestra~IV. Finale. Allegro (Introduction) - Poco meno vivo - Tempo I - Un poco meno vivo - Tempo I
1.9 Symphony No. 3~1. Largo - Poco più mosso - Allegro - Largo - Allegro - Largo - Poco più mosso - Tempo I
1.10 Symphony No. 3~2. Tempo di Waltz
1.11 Symphony No. 3~3. Elegy. Larghetto (con dimissioni) - Adagio - A tempo I - Poco meno mosso - A tempo
1.12 Symphony No. 3~4. Allegro moderato - Largo - A tempo I
Artist: Sinfonia of London
Label: Chandos
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 095115532423
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2024-02-16
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD
The three composers whose works appear on this album are interconnected: Ravel was a mentor to Lennox Berkeley, and Berkeley to Pounds. Le Tombeau de Couperin marks Ravel's movement towards neoclassicism, it's forms and style a re-invention of ones from the French baroque. Originally written for solo piano, the movements of the suite were dedicated to friends whom Ravel had lost in the First World War. In 1919, he orchestrated four of the six movements (the version performed here). Berkeley met Ravel a number of times in the 1920s, working as an interpreter and tour-guide whilst Ravel was in London. Ravel advised him to study with Nadia Boulanger, which he did, between 1926 and 1932. Commissioned by Sir Arthur Bliss for the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1942, the Divertimento initially received a mixed reception, but has since found many supporters (including Pounds). The critic Peter Dickinson felt it showed an 'instinctive and unimpassioned creativeness associated with the French aesthetic, but by no means restricted to it'. Adam Pounds studied privately with Berkeley in London during the late 1970s, and in his own music has perpetuated the firm commitment of the two earlier composers to clarity and accessibility in everything they wrote. His Third Symphony was written in 2021 and is a response to the national lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Pounds states that the piece captures the 'sadness, humour, determination and defiance' which everyone faced at this time - not least musicians. Scored for relatively modest orchestral forces, the work is dedicated to Sinfonia of London and John Wilson who here give the work it's world première recording.
Tracks:
1.1 Tombeau de Couperin, M 68a (Suite for Orchestra)~I. Prélude. Vif
1.2 Tombeau de Couperin, M 68a (Suite for Orchestra)~II. Forlane. Allegretto
1.3 Tombeau de Couperin, M 68a (Suite for Orchestra)~III. Menuet. Allegro moderato - [Musette] - [Très lent]
1.4 Tombeau de Couperin, M 68a (Suite for Orchestra)~IV. Rigaudon. Assez vif - Moins vif - Premier Mouvement
1.5 Divertimento, Op. 18 in B flat major for Orchestra~I. Prelude. Moderato
1.6 Divertimento, Op. 18 in B flat major for Orchestra~II. Nocturne. Andante - Un poco più vivo - Tempo I
1.7 Divertimento, Op. 18 in B flat major for Orchestra~III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio. Meno mosso - Tempo I - Meno mosso - Tempo I
1.8 Divertimento, Op. 18 in B flat major for Orchestra~IV. Finale. Allegro (Introduction) - Poco meno vivo - Tempo I - Un poco meno vivo - Tempo I
1.9 Symphony No. 3~1. Largo - Poco più mosso - Allegro - Largo - Allegro - Largo - Poco più mosso - Tempo I
1.10 Symphony No. 3~2. Tempo di Waltz
1.11 Symphony No. 3~3. Elegy. Larghetto (con dimissioni) - Adagio - A tempo I - Poco meno mosso - A tempo
1.12 Symphony No. 3~4. Allegro moderato - Largo - A tempo I
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