Emily Pailthorpe: Better Angels

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Brabbins nurtures the orchestra’s proliferating counter-melodies, and the recording renders them all clearly, though without ever making the BBC SO sound like the ‘small orchestra’ Strauss specified — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jul 2016
Catalogue No: CHRCD116
Label: Champs Hill Records
Length: 79 minutes

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Strauss, R: Oboe Concerto in D

Work length27:01

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Emily Pailthorpe
BBC Symphony Orchrestra
Martyn Brabbins

I. Allegro moderato

Track length9:15

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$2.10

II. Andante

Track length9:29

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$2.10

III. Vivace

Track length8:17

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Barber: Canzonetta, Op. 48 posth.

Work length7:22

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Emily Pailthorpe
BBC Symphony Orchrestra
Martyn Brabbins

Barber: Summer Music, Op. 31

Work length12:32

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Emily Pailthorpe, Daniel Pailthorpe, Richard Hosford, Julie Price, Nicholas Korth

Janáček: Mládí (Youth), for wind sextet

Work length18:07

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Emily Pailthorpe, Daniel Pailthorpe, Richard Hosford, Julie Price, Nicholas Korth, James Burke

I. Allegro

Track length3:47

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II. Andante sostenuto

Track length5:20

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III. Vivace

Track length3:51

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IV. Allegro animato

Track length5:09

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Blackford: The Better Angels of Our Nature

Work length14:44

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$2.80

Emily Pailthorpe
BBC Symphony Orchrestra
Martyn Brabbins

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This new recording by virtuoso Emily Pailthorpe brings together one of the most famous concertos for oboe – by Richard Strauss – with a new work The Better Angels of Our Nature by Richard Blackford, both recorded with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins.

Richard Blackford is known not only for his music for theatre, film and television, but also eloquent and lyrical works for the concert hall. The Better Angels of Our Nature was commissioned by, and premiered by Emily Pailthorpe in 2012. It takes its title from an inspirational plea for reconciliation by Abraham Lincoln in his first inaugural address in 1861. It is divided into two continuous movements.

Richard Strauss’s Concerto for oboe in D major is a late work, written in 1945. Approached by John de Lancie, a corporal in the US army but in civilian life a professional oboist, Strauss originally rejected the idea of a concerto for the instrument, but the idea took seed. Sadly, through a series of complications, de Lancie never premiered the work, but it has become a mainstay of the repertoire.

Two pieces beloved of wind players form the central sections of the disc: Barber’s Summer Music for quintet, and Janáček’s Mládí for sextet, for which Pailthorpe is joined by colleagues from London Conchord Ensemble, of which she is a founder member. Commissioned in 1953, Summer Music is a single movement, showcasing each instrument of the quintet: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and French horn.

Mládí (or ‘Youth’) by Janáček, written in 1924 when the composer was 70, adds a bass clarinet to the traditional wind quintet line-up in a piece which melds together reminiscences of Moravian folk-tunes with Janáček’s sensitivity to the lilt of human speech patterns.

With her unique vocal sound and compelling musicianship, oboist Emily Pailthorpe has won a large following amongst fellow musicians and concertgoers worldwide. Emily’s career was launched at the age of 17 when she became the youngest artist ever to win the Fernand Gillet International Oboe Competition. Playing the Vaughan Williams Concerto, she was hailed by the judges as “the Jacqueline du Pré of the oboe”. Emily went on to make her acclaimed concerto debut in 2003, playing the Strauss Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra, and gave her Wigmore Hall recital debut in the same year. As part of the BBC celebrations to mark International Women’s Day 2016, Emily was invited to perform Thea Musgrave’s virtuosic Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra Helios with the BBCSO, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

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November 2016

Brabbins nurtures the orchestra’s proliferating counter-melodies, and the recording renders them all clearly, though without ever making the BBC SO sound like the ‘small orchestra’ Strauss specified

31st January 2017

A welcome opportunity to enjoy rarely heard works for oboe and ensemble played with assurance, poise and innate musical intelligence.

4th August 2016

Pailthorpe has put together an intriguing programme from the limited repertoire available. She begins with a lusciously long-breathed account of Strauss’s late concerto, then makes lyrical work of Samuel Barber’s valedictory Canzonetta.

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