Crosse: Orchestral Works

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Fifty years ago Crosse was at the forefront of his generation and this judicious overview of his 1960s output affirms why...Much the most substantial work here is the Second Violin Concerto (1969),... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2017 More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2017
Catalogue No: REAM1133
Label: Lyrita
Length: 67 minutes

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Crosse, G: Elegy for small orchestra Op. 1

Work length8:20

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BBC Symphony Orchestra
Norman Del Mar

Crosse, G: Concerto for Chamber Orchestra Op. 8

Work length11:39

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Budapest Symphony Orchestra
György Lehel

I. Allegro brillante e poco maestoso

Track length4:20

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II. Lento

Track length3:34

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III. Allegro energico

Track length3:45

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Crosse, G: Concertino Op. 15

Work length12:47

$6.00

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Richard Adeney, Peter Graeme, Gervase de Peyer, Cecil Aronowitz

I. Chorale I

Track length2:17

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II. Sonatina I

Track length1:37

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III. Chorale II

Track length1:10

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IV. Variations

Track length4:49

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V. Sonatina II

Track length1:27

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VI. Chorale III

Track length1:27

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Crosse, G: Violin Concerto No.2 Op. 26

Work length34:43

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Manoug Parikian
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis

I. Poco lento

Track length14:12

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II. Allegro

Track length20:31

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‘If [a composer] has “something to say”, it can be said only through his technique; he has no control over “inspiration”. The surest way of writing dull music is to sit down with one’s head full of “Beauty” or “Socialism” instead of crotchets and quavers’. This no-nonsense approach to his craft has served Gordon Crosse well during his long career as a creative artist. Crosse was born in Bury, Lancashire on 1 December 1937. He won a place at Oxford University, where he studied with Egon Wellesz and Bernard Rose between 1958 and 1963. In the spring of 1962, following the advice of Peter Maxwell Davies, he studied for three months with Goffredo Petrassi in Rome. From 1964 onwards he combined composition with various teaching appointments at the Universities of Birmingham, Essex and King’s College Cambridge. After growing disenchantment with his profession, he gave up composition altogether between 1990 and 2007. The five works presented here all date from the 1960s. It was a period of great success and acclaim – in 1966 he was granted the Vaughan Williams Composer of the Year Award for his ‘outstanding contribution to British music’ and in the same year an article in The Times devoted to his output began with a quote referring to him as ‘the most exciting composer to have appeared in Britain since Richard Rodney Bennett’.

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July 2017

Fifty years ago Crosse was at the forefront of his generation and this judicious overview of his 1960s output affirms why...Much the most substantial work here is the Second Violin Concerto (1969), where Crosse's motivic skill combines with the dramatic sense evident in the choral and theatrical pieces that preceded it...This impressive work benefits from the advocacy Manoug Parikian manifestly instils into it.

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