Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

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In Britten’s buoyant Young Apollo Aldeburgh Strings field a greater weight and range of colour that Rattle’s CBSO, making the work sound more expressive and substantial, and Lorenzo Soulès is... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016 More…

Release Date: 22nd Apr 2016
Catalogue No: CKD478
Label: Linn
Length: 54 minutes

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This international ensemble of crack musicians reveals the next generation’s star soloists; led by violinist Markus Däunert (leader of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra), they deliver fresh and energetic performances of some of Britten’s finest music for string ensemble.

This recording is the conclusion of projects celebrating Britten’s centenary in 2013, at which Aldeburgh Strings performed the closing concert in Britten’s musical home of Snape Maltings.

The recording opens with Young Apollo, a radiant, expressive, characterful and dramatic work, featuring pianist Lorenzo Soulès.

The Lachrymae subtitled ‘reflections on a song of Dowland’ explores the viola’s intensely mellow sonorities; Máté Szücs (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) is the soloist.

The Prelude and Fugue finds Britten indulging in the exuberant technical wizardry of his youthful period whilst recalling Bach’s sophisticated contrapuntal textures.

To close, one of the great masterpieces of Britten's cannon: the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. The award-winning tenor Allan Clayton and horn player Richard Watkins are the soloists, the latter reprising his role 30 years after first performing it with Peter Pears.

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May 2016

In Britten’s buoyant Young Apollo Aldeburgh Strings field a greater weight and range of colour that Rattle’s CBSO, making the work sound more expressive and substantial, and Lorenzo Soulès is a dexterous solo pianist…the poetry [of the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings] is sung with clarity and perception…Richard Watkins is commanding as the horn soloists and the Aldeburgh Strings are again a vivid presence.

1st May 2016

These performances by the Aldeburgh-inspired ensemble vividly affirm Britten’s genius...The Serenade finds a mellifluous, meticulous, impassioned exponent in Allan Clayton...Richard Watkins’s “natural” horn is splendidly detuned in the framing solos.

12th May 2016

Clayton pushes his robust but airy tenor in all the right places, eking out the tension in the texts. Watkins is superb. There is vibrant, punchy playing from three incarnations of Aldeburgh Strings.

Classical Music August 2016

Clayton and Watkins are characterful and winning in the Serenade, while Szűcs is deeply impressive in the orchestral version of Lachrymae…best of all is Soules in a suitably dazzling Young Apollo, a work we hear all too little.

Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

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