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CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
STABAT MATER, RISE AGAIN
& SONG TO THE SOUL
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COMPOSER: Charles Villiers
Stanford
ARTIST: Elizabeth Cragg; Catherine
Hopper
ˇ
Robert Murray
ˇ
David
Soar
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Bach Choir
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Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra
ˇ
David Hill
(conductor)
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VINCENT D'INDY
SYMPHONY NO. 2
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COMPOSER: Vincent d'Indy
ARTIST: Royal Scottish National
Orchestra ˇ Jean-Luc Tingaud
(conductor)
NAXOS
LÁSZLÓ LAJTHA
ORCHESTRAL WORKS, VOL. 1
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COMPOSER: László Lajtha
ARTIST: Pécs Symphony Orchestra
ˇ
Nicolás Pasquet (conductor)
NAXOS
HERMANN GOETZ
PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 1 &
2, SPRING OVERTURE
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COMPOSER: Hermann Goetz
ARTIST: Davide Cabassi (piano)
ˇ Magdeburg Philharmonic
Orchestra ˇ Kimbo Ishii-Eto
(conductor)
ˇ Choral music was central to Charles
Villiers Stanford's life as a composer.
Balancing solemnity with rapturous
affirmation. The Resurrection was his
first major choral work, written while
he was studying under Carl Reinecke in
Leipzig and anticipating Mahler's use
of Klopstock's eponymous poem in his
"Resurrection" Symphony.
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The dramatic, at times almost operatic
and Wagnerian Stabat Mater is a
cantata with two purely orchestral
movements suggestive of a large-scale
symphony, while Song to the Soul
contains some of Stanford's most
exhilarating utterances, though it was
never performed in his lifetime.
ˇ Vincent d'Indy is one of the most
important yet neglected figures in
French musical history. Though he was
celebrated as a teacher, his eclectic yet
inventive orchestral music has taken
longer to secure him fame.
ˇ The Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat Major
has a powerful architectural design
within which tensions between
tradition and innovation are played
out, and through which the composer
draws on folk motifs and his religious
faith alike.
ˇ The powerful, grief-laden symphonic
poem Souvenirs was dedicated to
the memory of his late wife whilst
Istar is a majestic series of variations.
The Prelude to Fervaal, his first opera,
reveals atmospheric Wagnerian
writing.
ˇ Laszlo Lajtha remains Hungary's
foremost symphonist and one of the
country's greatest composers of the
first half of the twentieth century.
Written when he was 44, the vigorous
and optimistic Symphony No. 1, Op. 24
reveals a strong affinity with Latin and
French models and with indigenous
Hungarian folk-music.
ˇ By 1941, when In Memoriam was
composed, the modd had darkened
and this work is a shocking yet
eloquent protest against the brutality
of war. The delicious four movement
Suite pour Orchestre was compiled by
the composer from his ballet Lysistrata.
ˇ Hermann Goetz's lifespan was no
longer than Mozart's, and though
much admired by contemporaries, as a
tragic genius his music became almost
forgotten, and the domain of but a few
connoisseurs such as Gustav Mahler.
ˇ Goetz's style remained closer to
schumann and Mendelssohn,
preferring lyricism and clarity to the
more radical approaches of Liszt and
Wagner.
ˇ The virtuoso First Piano Concerto was a
student work, its lovely central adagio
sharing a use of colorful wind parts
with the freshly optimistic Second
Piano Concerto composed six years
later.