Earth, Sea, Air: British Music For Cello and Orchestra

Release Date: 31st May 2024
Catalogue No: CHSA5346
Label: Chandos

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Bridge: Oration - Concerto elegiaco for cello and orchestra

Work length30:33

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Laura van der Heijden, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth

I. Poco lento – Lento e ritmico

Track length5:40

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II. Allegro

Track length4:16

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III. Ben moderato (poco lento) – Poco lento

Track length3:56

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IV. Allegro giusto – Tranquillo

Track length3:04

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V. Ben moderato, mesto e tranquillo – Cadenza

Track length3:12

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VI. Allegro

Track length2:47

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VII. Lento

Track length5:12

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VIII. Epilogue. Andante tranquillo

Track length2:26

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Frances-Hoad: Cello Concerto 'Earth, Sea, Air'

Work length21:20

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Laura van der Heijden, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth

I. Earth

Track length8:54

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II. Sea

Track length7:47

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III. Air

Track length4:39

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Walton: Cello Concerto

Work length30:05

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Laura van der Heijden, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth

I. Moderato

Track length8:41

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II. Allegro appassionato

Track length6:55

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III. Tema ed improvvisazioni

Track length14:29

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Laura van der Heijden joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth for this album of British cello concertos. Frank Bridge’s Oration, composed in 1929–30, was intended as an outcry against the inhumanity of warfare, and a tribute to the victims of the First World War. Its arch-form single continuous movement exhibits the intense chromaticism typical of Bridge’s output from this era.

Commissioned by the Ukrainian-born cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Walton’s Cello Concerto suffered a number of difficulties with regard to first performances (Piatigorsky suffered a mental breakdown; Walton missed the UK première because of a nasty road accident) but it has nevertheless become a staple of the repertoire. It was with this concerto that Laura van der Heijden won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, in 2012.

The young British composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and then the University of Cambridge and King’s College London, and rapidly established herself as one of the most talented and prolific composers of her generation. Earth, Sea, Air was written for van der Heijden, who gave the work’s première in Glasgow in 2023, a week before making this recording with the same forces.

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