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Volume 1 -
GORDON JACOB 1895-1984
SYMPHONY NO. 2 ~ WORLD PREMIERE
A LITTLE SYMPHONY ~ WORLD PREMIERE
A FESTIVAL OVERTURE WORLD PREMIERE
Munich Symphony Orchestra o Douglas Bostock, conductor
For reasons not easy to understand Gordon Jacob has been left out of the recording and concert repertoire for some considerable time so this CD is more than welcome. Both symphonies on this disc are unmistakably English in character and well worth getting to know. The CD booklet comes with an excellent set of notes on the music and includes the composer's own comments on his music.
Catalogue No.: CLASSCD 204
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WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING
"….Douglas Bostock directs the
first in a new series of British music from this very
enterprising Danish label. The playing of the Munich orchestra is
absolutely splendid…"
David Denton - Yorkshire Post, Nov. 1998
"Jacob was an immensely skilful
composer and in these two symphonic works not a note sounds out
of place..."
Terry Barfoot - BBC Music Magazine, Nov. 1998
"Bostock and the Munich Orchestra
greatly at ease in the idiom…..very warmly
recommended……the disc comprises a set of recording
premieres."
Rob Barnett - Classical Music on the Web, January 1999
Volume 3 - ARNOLD BAX
1883-1953
SYMPHONY NO. 6
TINTAGEL
OVERTURE TO ADVENTURE ~ WORLD PREMIERE
Munich Symphony Orchestra o Douglas Bostock, conductor
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Symphony No 6, written in 1934, was dedicated to Adrian Boult (of whom Douglas Bostock was a pupil). Unusually, it has three movements, the Scherzo and Trio and Finale being telescoped into one a device used before by Bax in his 3rd Symphony.
Tintagel - this piece (described by the composer as a picture of the sea off the North Cornwall coast viewed from the cliff of Tintagel on a sunny day but not windless day) contains textures reminiscent of Debussy. The piece is romantic and unmistakably English.
Overture to Adventure WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
Bax says that this work has no programme attached to it and follows- more or less - the usual form of the classical Overture. In spite of this comment by the composer the Overture does have a title and the woodwind figure which begins the work is of a character consistent with the title and the work continues in the same vein closing with a soul-stirring climax which ends this exhilarating adventure.
Catalogue No.: CLASSCD 254
WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING
"….splendid performances of
British music by a German Orchestra….Tintagel given a ripely
romantic performance…"
Michael Kennedy - Sunday Telegraph - March 14 1999
"World Premiere recording of the
vividly coloured Overture to Adventure…The orchestra
admirably captures the music's essence and Bostock proves a fine
Bax advocate…."
David Denton - Yorkshire Post - March 99
"Bostock captures the spirit of fantasy
and adventure …sensitive to Bax's love affair with
beauty…" "…Tintagel is given the best
performance I have heard…"
Rob Barnett - Classical Music on the Web
"…a warm welcome to a new series
of British symphonic music…. A splendid mixture of the well
known and the unknown. Douglas Bostock knows exactly what he is
doing. This is as good an introduction to British Symphonic music
after Elgar as you are likely to find. Roll on Butterworth and
Gipps…"
Peter Allanson - Classical Express, March 1999
The British Symphonic Collection -
Volume 4
ARTHUR BUTTERWORTH: Symphony Number 1
RUTH GIPPS (1923-1999): Symphony Number 2
Munich Symphony Orchestra o Douglas Bostock, conductor
Catalogue No.: CLASSCD 274
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Ruth Gipps (1923-1999) devoted her whole life to music but her contribution to British Music is largely uncelebrated, which is something of a tragedy given that her vision, enthusiasm and practical and artistic contributions to the British music scene were considerable. She was a gifted performer on piano and oboe and a composer of considerable stature and output. Gipps studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Vaughan Williams (a great influence on her own style) and Gordon Jacob, and the oboe with Leon Goossens. During the War she established close ties with Birmingham where she was a full-time orchestral musician with the C.B.S.O., which premiered many of her works including her 2nd Symphony. Her compositions, though popular with audiences, were not really given the attention which they deserved emerging as they did at a time when the musical establishment was veering towards serialism and the avante-garde developments in the 60's and 70's and before its hostile attitude to women composers had begun to change. Ruth Gipps died only recently aged 78.
Arthur Butterworth MBE - 75 last year, has been well-known as a composer in his native North of England for many years. His first two symphonies were premiered by the Halle Orchestra (under Barbirolli and Boult, respectively), and the Symphony No. 1 also featured in a Henry Wood Promenade Concert in 1958. Butterworth has composed significant works for the thriving Brass Band tradition, in addition to concertos for Organ, Cello and Violin - the latter given it's professional premiere by Nigel Kennedy - and numerous other orchestral and chamber works, a recently completed string quartet being his 100th opus! Born in Manchester in 1923, Butterworth entered the Royal Manchester College of Music after the war, at the age of 24, to study composition and trumpet. His mature compositional style is influenced primarily by Sibelius, Nielsen, Elgar and other English composers of a previous generation. The north country, its poetry and its art is the major inspirational source of Butterworth's music.
Volume 5 The British
Symphonic Collection
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
GUSTAV HOLST
COTSWOLDS SYMPHONY ~ FIRST COMPLETE
RECORDING
WALT WHITMAN OVERTURE ~ PREMIERE
HAMPSHIRE SUITE ~ PREMIERE
THE PERFECT FOOL & SCHERZO
Munich Symphony Orchestra o Douglas Bostock, conductor
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Malcolm Arnold
Munich Symphony Orchestra o Douglas Bostock, conductor
SYMPHONY No. 5
DIVERTIMENTO No. 2
SYMPHONIC STUDY; MACHINES
THE BELLES OF ST. TRINIANS - COMEDY SUITE
JANIS IVANOVS ORCHESTRAL MUSIC VOLUMES 1 - 3
Following its successful first collaborations with Latvian Radio, begun shortly after the release of Inessa Galante's "Debut" album, Campion Records is now releasing the first CDs of a series which will bring nearly all the orchestral works of Janis Ivanovs to CD, most of them for the first time. Janis Ivanovs, who died in 1983 while Latvia was still governed by the Soviet Union, occupies a place similar to that of Sibelius in Finland, or Nielsen in Denmark, only he wrote considerably more symphonies than either, with 20 completed and a 21st unfinished at his death. The Campion series will run to at least 12 volumes over the next 2 -3 years.
VOLUME 1 1933 - 1937 Symphony No 1; Latgalian Landscapes; Symphony No 2
CATALOGUE NUMBER: CAMEO 2008
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VOLUME 2 1938 Symphony No 3; 'Cello Concerto; The Cloudy Mountain
CATALOGUE NUMBER: CAMEO 2009
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VOLUME 3
Symphony No. 4 "Atlantis"
Rainbow (Symphonic Poem)
RAINBOW is unique amongst Ivanovs orchestral works, it is a work of delicate orchestral colour and harmony, lacking his usual melodic brightness and structural solidity. It is a work clearly influenced by Impressionism, but Ivanovs chose to take no further steps down this road.
ATLANTIS, symphony number four, which was begun in the thirties, has the character of a prophecy of doom, influenced by the political unrest and artistic soul searching of that time, but by its release it must also have been seen as a dark prophecy of Latvia's future, after the invasion by the Soviet Army in 1940. It is a large-scale work, both in concept and in its orchestral realisation, including parts for a Women's chorus. It is perhaps the last completely free utterance of the Composer for many years. He, like the greater of the Soviet composers, had for a while to discover a voice which spoke individually whilst also pleasing the authorities who wanted a controlled art, understood by the "masses". Even after this phase of control ended Ivanovs never entirely escaped the shadow of Soviet occupation of his homeland.
CATALOGUE NUMBER: CAMEO 2007
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CLASSCD 296 - Carl Nielsen (The New Carl Nielsen Edition)
Symphony No. 2 & Symphony No. 5
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Douglas Bostock -
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CLASSCD 297 - Carl Nielsen (The New Carl Nielsen Edition)
Symphony No. 3 (with additional non-vocal version of the slow
movement)
+ Helios Overture and some minor world premieres.
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Douglas Bostock -
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