Rawsthorne, A: Fantasy Overture: Corteges, etc.

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Rawsthorne enthusiasts should waste no time in snapping up this disc, containing music-making of perceptive dedication and impressive polish.
He completed his First Violin Concerto in 1947, dedicating... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 8554240
Label: Naxos
Length: 64 minutes

Rawsthorne, A: Fantasy Overture: Corteges

Work length13:20

$3.00

$3.85

Rebecca Hirsch (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Lionel Friend

Rawsthorne, A: Violin Concerto No. 1

Work length27:22

$7.00

$9.00

Rebecca Hirsch (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Lionel Friend

Adagio espressivo e rubato - Andante con moto, poco teneramente

Track length15:49

$4.00

$5.15

Andante (I'istesso tempo) - Allegro - Allegro Moderato

Track length11:33

$3.00

$3.85

Rawsthorne, A: Violin Concerto No. 2

Work length23:21

$5.00

$6.50

Rebecca Hirsch (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Lionel Friend

Allegretto

Track length8:47

$2.00

$2.60

Poco lento

Track length6:41

$1.00

$1.30

Tema con Variazioni

Track length7:53

$2.00

$2.60

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2010

Rawsthorne enthusiasts should waste no time in snapping up this disc, containing music-making of perceptive dedication and impressive polish.
He completed his First Violin Concerto in 1947, dedicating the score to Walton (there's a quotation from Belshazzar'sFeast just before the end). Cast in just two movements, it's a lyrically affecting creation that weaves a spell, especially in a performance as dignified and consistently purposeful as this. However, the revelation comes with the Second Concerto of 1956.
Rebecca Hirsch and Lionel Friend locate a deceptive urgency and symphonic thrust in the opening Allegretto that genuinely compel. If anything, the succeeding Poco lento wears an even more anguished, nervy demeanour, the music's questing mood very well conveyed. By contrast, the finale proceeds in serene, almost carefree fashion, its witty coda forming a delightfully unbuttoned conclusion to a striking, much-underrated work. As a curtain-raiser Naxos gives us the fantasy overture Cortèges.
Commissioned by the BBC and premiered at the 1945 Proms by the LSO under Basil Cameron, it's a well-wrought essay, pitting an eloquent Adagio processional as against an irrepressible Allegro molto vivace tarantella. The composer develops his material with customary skill, and Friend draws a committed and alert response from the BBC Scottish SO. Boasting a spacious, bright and admirably balanced sound picture (no attempt to spotlight the soloist), here's an enormously rewarding issue and a bargain of the first order.

Rawsthorne, A: Fantasy Overture: Corteges, etc.

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