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“Lovely playing. A classic performance of Tintagel (unlikely ever to be surpassed) and a deeply moving interpretation of A Song of Summer.” Gramophone Magazine “For collectors wanting Tintagel alone, Barbirolli's version is the finest ever recorded and is unlikely ever to be surpassed. The performance has a great romantic sweep and the full-bodied 1965 still sounds splendid.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bax - Orchestral Works Volume 3
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| |  | Holst & Bax: Orchestral Works
Heritage presents vintage Boult performances of Holst and Bax, transferred from vinyl with extraordinary results by former EMI engineer, Gary Moore. The 1954 recording of the planets comes from a Nixa LP (NPL 903) and The Perfect Fool and Tintagel were recorded a year later for Decca (LXT 5015). | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | O, To Be In EnglandMusic for a green and pleasant land
A fine collection of moving and wistful orchestral works which celebrate the English landscape and its natural beauty. English composers have always excelled at pastoral music with a hint of nostalgia: from 'the lark ascending' to the strains of 'Greensleeves' this evocative selection features some of this pleasant land's finest music. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Osmo Vänskä conducts Rachmaninov and BaxRecorded live at Royal Festival Hall, London, 8 December 2007.
Osmo Vänskä conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in thrilling live recordings of works by Bax and Rachmaninov, two composers renowned for their sweeping romanticism. As his tone poem unfolds, Bax’s music evokes legendary images of Tintagel whilst also reflecting a passionate love affair. Similarly, Rachmaninov’s third and most expressive symphony is a work of intense lyricism, unified by a melancholic and emotional melody. This is a previously unavailable recording of two live performances. Osmo Vänskä is a highly praised recorded conductor. He is currently recording the complete Beethoven symphony cycle with the Minnesota Orchestra. In this recording Vänskä brings his innate understanding of Sibelius to Bax, one of Sibelius’s contemporaries. Vänskä can give the same voice to Rachmaninov as any great Russian conductor. He has a distinguished profile on both sides of the Atlantic. He is Chief Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra and also has an active European career. ‘The players revelled in its glamorous seascape.’ The Guardian concert review on Bax, December 07 ‘Drawing a surging performance that was by turns panoramic and passionate, the Finnish conductor proved himself a potent advocate for this neglected British composer… [This was followed by] a glittering and luxuriant performance of Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 3.’ The Sunday Telegraph concert review on Bax and Rachmaninov, December 07 “These are two marvellous orchestral display-pieces… Despite a host of sterling British competition from Boult, Barbirolli, Handley, Lloyd-Jones et al, Osmo Vänskä seems to have totally identified with Bax and actually presents us with one of the most thrilling Tintagels currently available. The Rachmaninov is also a notable account. ...Vänskä accumulates strength through the first movement and the second and third movements are splendidly incisive, with a tumultuous impetus to the finale...” BBC Music Magazine, February 2009 ***** “…Vänskä's… Tintagel has real fire in its belly allied to a surging momentum, and he uncovers many a fleck of exquisite detail within Bax's endlessly resourceful and wondrously evocative scoring… The Rachmaninov… is just as involving… intensely refreshing... in its zestful swagger, scrupulous preparation... limpid beauty and concern for the bigger scheme (how shrewd of Vänskä to keep in reserve such a scintillating burst of energy for the headlong closing pages).” Gramophone Magazine, March 2009 “Vänskä's Tintagel has real fire in its belly allied to a surging momentum, and he uncovers many a fleck of exquisite detail within Bax's endlessly resourceful and wondrously evocative scoring.
The ecstatic B major sunburst that heralds the second subject's unforgettable return has all the thrusting ardour one could wish for. The justly enthusiastic applause bursts in somewhat too precipitately for comfort.
The Rachmaninov (complete with exposition repeat in the first movement) is just as involving, not quite as volatile or heart-on-sleeve as some but intensely refreshing all the same in its zestful swagger, scrupulous preparation, limpid beauty and concern for the bigger scheme (how shrewd of Vänskä to keep in reserve such a scintillating burst of energy for the headlong closing pages).
The engineering does ample justice to some splendidly selfless and thoroughly invigorating music-making, though in the Bax you might need to crank up the volume a notch higher than usual. A strongly recommendable issue.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | English Landscapes
“The Hallé's exceptional leader, Lyn Fletcher, delivered a fleetingly evanescent account of Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending. Best of all, however, was a mistily evocative performance of Gerald Finzi's autumnal tone poem The Fall of the Leaf - a fittingly seasonal homage in the 50th anniversary year of a composer who had a keen interest in English varieties of apple. This one, however, was a peach.” (The Guardian, 8th November 2005, reviewing the live performance on 3rd November) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Seascapes
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| |  | Great British Orchestral Classics
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| |  | Bax - Symphonic Poems
“November Woods remains the stand-out offering, a performance of thrusting purpose and refreshing involvement…” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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