Alan Rawsthorne: Concerto for String Orchestra & other works for chamber orchestra

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The most substantial offering here, the resourceful and magnificently crafted Concertofor String Orchestra, dates from 1949. David Lloyd-Jones and his admirably prepared group give a performance... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 8553567
Label: Naxos
Length: 63 minutes

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Rawsthorne, A: Concerto for Strings

Work length21:32

$5.00

$6.50

Northern Chamber Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones

Largo maestoso - Molto allegro

Track length7:05

$2.00

$2.60

Lento e mesto

Track length7:42

$2.00

$2.60

Allegro piacevole

Track length6:45

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$1.30

Rawsthorne, A: Concertante pastorale

Work length10:00

$3.00

$3.85

Conrad Marshall (flute), Rebecca Goldberg (horn)
Northern Chamber Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones

Concertante pastorale for Flute, Horn and Strings

Track length10:00

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$3.85

Rawsthorne, A: Light Music

Work length3:55

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$1.30

Northern Chamber Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones

Light Music for Strings

Track length3:55

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$1.30

Rawsthorne, A: Suite for Recorder and String Orchestra (orch. John McCabe)

Work length6:34

$4.00

$5.20

John Turner (recorder)
Northern Chamber Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones

Sarabande: Maestoso

Track length1:23

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$1.30

Fantasia: Andante con moto

Track length2:31

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$1.30

Air: Andante grazioso

Track length1:25

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$1.30

Jig: Allegro

Track length1:15

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$1.30

Rawsthorne, A: Elegiac Rhapsody

Work length10:15

$3.00

$3.85

Northern Chamber Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones

Elegiac Rhapsody for String Orchestra

Track length10:15

$3.00

$3.85

Rawsthorne, A: Divertimento

Work length11:12

$3.00

$3.90

Northern Chamber Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones

Rondo: Allegro moderato

Track length5:03

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$1.30

Lullaby: Allegretto

Track length2:39

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$1.30

Jig: Presto

Track length3:30

$1.00

$1.30

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2010

The most substantial offering here, the resourceful and magnificently crafted Concertofor String Orchestra, dates from 1949. David Lloyd-Jones and his admirably prepared group give a performance which, in its emotional scope and keen vigour, outshines Boult's 1966 recording with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (nla). Not only does Lloyd-Jones achieve a more thrusting urgency in the outer movements, he also locates an extra sense of slumbering tragedy in the Lento e mesto. He gives a sparkling account of the immensely engaging Divertimento, written for Harry Blech and the London Mozart Players in 1962; the rumbustious concluding 'Jig' is as good a place as any to sample the spick-and-span response of the Northern Chamber Orchestra. The Concertantepastorale, written for the Hampton Court Orangery Concerts, is an atmospheric, beautifully wrought 10-minute essay for solo flute, horn and strings. It's succeeded by the perky Light Music for strings, composed in 1938 for the Workers' Music Association and based on Catalan folk-tunes. Then there's McCabe's expert orchestration of the miniature Suite for recorder and strings, the second of whose four linked movements is a reworking of a ballad from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. But the most exciting discovery has to be the 1963-4 ElegiacRhapsody, a deeply felt threnody for string orchestra written in memory of Rawsthorne's friend, the poet Louis MacNeice. Not only does it pack a wealth of first-rate invention and incident into its 10-minute duration, it attains a pitch of anguished expression possibly unrivalled in this figure's entire output.

Yet another Naxos/British music bull’s eye, comprising an imaginative programme realized with great sympathy by all involved.

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