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Virtuoso orchestration by a super-skilled composer...Classy performances. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th Feb 2013
Catalogue No: CHSA5119
Label: Chandos
Series: Goosens Orchestral Works
Length: 74 minutes

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Goossens: Kaleidoscope, Op. 18

Work length9:51

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
Recorded: June 2010, September 2011, September 2012
Recording Venue: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

I. Good Morning

Track length1:01

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II. Promenade

Track length1:29

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III. The Hurdy Gurdy Man

Track length1:07

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IV. The March of the Wooden Soldier

Track length1:03

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V. Lament for a Departed Doll

Track length1:42

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VI. The Old Musical Box

Track length0:46

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VII. The Punch and Judy Show

Track length0:43

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VIII. Good Night

Track length2:00

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Goossens: Tam O'Shanter ‘Scherzo after Burns', Op. 17a

Work length3:43

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
Recorded: June 2010, September 2011, September 2012
Recording Venue: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Goossens: 3 Greek Dances, Op. 44

Work length10:10

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
Recorded: June 2010, September 2011, September 2012
Recording Venue: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

No. 1. Moderato

Track length3:05

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No. 2. Andante languido

Track length4:54

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No. 3. Vivo

Track length2:11

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Goossens: Concert Piece, Op. 65

Work length21:59

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Marshall McGuire (harp), Jeffrey Crellin (cor anglais), Alannah Guthrie-Jones (harp)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
Recorded: June 2010, September 2011, September 2012
Recording Venue: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

I. Fantasia

Track length4:57

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II. Chorale

Track length9:38

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III. Perpetuum mobile e burlesca

Track length7:24

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Goossens: 4 Conceits, Op. 20 (version for orchestra)

Work length6:45

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
Recorded: June 2010, September 2011, September 2012
Recording Venue: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

No. 1. The Gargoyle

Track length1:45

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No. 2. Dance Memories

Track length1:20

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No. 3. A Walking Tune

Track length2:22

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No. 4. The Marionette Show

Track length1:18

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Goossens: Variations on ‘Cadet Rousselle’

Work length3:50

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
Recorded: June 2010, September 2011, September 2012
Recording Venue: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Goossens: Nature Poems, Op. 52

Work length11:23

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
Recorded: June 2010, September 2011, September 2012
Recording Venue: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

No. 1. Pastoral: Andantino grazioso

Track length6:59

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No. 2. Bacchanal: Molto allegro

Track length4:24

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Goossens: Don Juan de Manara, Op. 54

Work length6:21

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
Recorded: June 2010, September 2011, September 2012
Recording Venue: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Don Juan de Manara, Op. 54: Intermezzo

Track length6:21

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This disc marks the beginning of the partnership between the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and its recently appointed Chief Conductor, Sir Andrew Davis, who already boasts an impressive discography on Chandos.

In the pieces performed here, we find Goossens emerging at the end of World War I as a brilliant and innovative orchestrator, a modernist with a technique derived from Debussy, Ravel, and early Stravinsky. As Director of the New South Wales Conservatorium in Sydney and Chief Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, he was phenomenally successful, his achievements earning him international fame.

Four Conceits, Kaleidoscope, and Two Nature Poems all began life as works for solo piano, written during or just after World War I. All were later adapted for orchestral forces, and in steep contrast to the excessive length and opulence of much wartime music, these works (Kaleidoscope and Four Conceits in particular) are conspicuously brief. In fact, only one of the four Conceits exceeds two minutes.

The short tone poem Tam o’Shanter and the four-act opera Don Juan de Mañara were both inspired by literary works. The former illustrates the well-known poem of the same name by Robert Burns, depicting the drunken return from Ayr of Tam on this horse, the uncertain gait of which is heard in the music from the outset. The libretto for Goossens’s opera had been written by Arnold Bennett after a play by Alexandre Dumas, père.

Also closely associated with the arts, Three Greek Dances was written for Margaret Morris whose flowing style of dancing, inspired by Isadora Duncan, we today associate with the 1920s. The piece, in its final form, was first performed in London by Morris and her dancers at the Faculty of Arts, Piccadilly in January 1931.

At the suggestion of their friend the critic Edwin Evans, four composers – John Ireland, Frank Bridge, Arnold Bax, and Eugene Goossens – jointly produced a miniature set of variations on the French folksong ‘Cadet Rousselle’, for soprano and piano. Goossens later arranged the set for orchestra without voice, the version performed here.

Reviews

July 2013

Virtuoso orchestration by a super-skilled composer...Classy performances.

May 2013

Chandos's rich sound is up to the usual high standards and outshines Goossens's own 1922 recording of Tam O'Shanter

18th April 2013

It is almost redundant to praise the excellent sound quality of this CD. The same applies to the enthusiastic, but always sensitive and sympathetic playing by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis...This CD is a tremendously important addition to the catalogues.

6th April 2013

listening to this disc is 74 minutes well-spent. Tam O’Shanter’s four minutes whizz by in exhilarating fashion; Goossens knew just how much mileage could be extracted from his musical ideas and none of these pieces outstays its welcome. The Three Greek Dances are nicely evocative, and two suites of orchestrated piano pieces leave you wanting more.

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