Fricker: Symphonies Nos. 1-4

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The detailed presentation is all one could desire, and Richard Itter’s domestic tapes have come up admirably. Make no mistake, there’s some intriguing and rewarding repertoire on this brave Lyrita... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…

Release Date: 6th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: REAM2136
Label: Lyrita
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

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Fricker: Rondo scherzoso

Work length13:24

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BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Bryden Thomson

Fricker: Symphony No. 1, Op. 9

Work length34:49

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BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Bryden Thomson
Recorded: 12 September 1980
Recording Venue: BBC Studio Recording, UK

Symphony No. 1, Op. 9: I. Alla breve

Track length10:04

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Symphony No. 1, Op. 9: II. Adagio con molto passione

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Symphony No. 1, Op. 9: III. Tableau & Dance

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Symphony No. 1, Op. 9: IV. Finale. Moderato - Allegro

Track length12:36

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Fricker: Symphony No. 2, Op. 14

Work length29:37

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BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Albert Rosen
Recorded: 17 September 1980
Recording Venue: BBC Studio Recording, UK

Symphony No. 2, Op. 14: I. Allegro moderato

Track length9:02

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Symphony No. 2, Op. 14: II. Andante

Track length9:47

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Symphony No. 2, Op. 14: III. Allegro vivace

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Fricker: Comedy Overture, Op. 32

Work length5:00

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BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Albert Rosen

Fricker: Symphony No. 3, Op. 36

Work length30:35

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BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Sir Edward Downes
Recorded: 2 October 1980
Recording Venue: BBC Studio Recording, UK

Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Allegro furioso

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Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: II. Lento

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Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: III. Scherzo

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Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: IV. Maestoso - Allegro appassionato

Track length8:57

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Fricker: Symphony No. 4, Op. 43

Work length37:55

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BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Maurice Handford

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‘For me music is as exciting as a sporting event. I wish that … critics and public could get as worked up about new music as they do about football and cricket’. This cri de coeur from composer Peter Racine Fricker (1920-1990) captures the passion and conviction with which he approached his craft. Fricker was born on 5 September 1920 in Ealing, London. He was educated at St. Paul’s School, London and entered the Royal College of Music in 1937. Upon demobilisation he resumed formal composition lessons with the Hungarian émigré composer Mátyás Seiber, who had lived in England since 1935. In 1952 he was appointed musical director of Morley College (succeeding Michael Tippett) and held this post for the next 12 years. During this period he was also a Professor of Composition at the RCM. Fricker was the first British composer to make his reputation entirely after World War II. Among the first composers in Britain to be influenced by the music of Béla Bartók, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, Fricker assimilated aspects of their very different styles into a distinctive voice of his own. He proceeded to build an impressive body of work in his highly expressive, urbane and freely atonal language.

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October 2017

The detailed presentation is all one could desire, and Richard Itter’s domestic tapes have come up admirably. Make no mistake, there’s some intriguing and rewarding repertoire on this brave Lyrita anthology.

Classical Music November 2017

Born in Ealing, Fricker studied with Seiber and taught at the RCM before moving to California. His musical voice is deliciously spicy, influenced by Bartók, Schoenberg and Stravinsky. This piquancy leads to hyper-emotive slow movements (Symphonies 1 and 3), but is also felt in the more active ‘Tableau and Dance’ of the First (no missing the Bartók flavour). Maurice Handford steers the BBC orchestra impeccably. Fascinating music.

Fricker: Symphonies Nos. 1-4

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