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The Lyrita label's series of albums based on BBC radio broadcasts of the 1970s revive not only a good deal of unknown music, but also some attitudes of a bygone day. From the notes here you learn, for example, that the opening chords of William Wordsworth's Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 23, were greeted with listener complaints because of their dissonance, when in fact they're not really dissonant at all, but merely chromatic and fully anchored in the home tonality of F minor. Be this as it may, the F minor symphony is worth a fresh hearing. Wordsworth, apparently a distant relation of the poet, was a Scottish composer who studied with the great Beethoven scholar Donald Francis Tovey, and you can hear that in this concise symphony that sounds a bit like the later Havergal Brian in its superimposition of an extremely terse motivic language onto a late Romantic tonal vocabulary. Sample the opening movement (track 2) above all. Wordsworth called the symphony, just shy of 34 minutes long in total, "long-winded," which gives you an idea of what he was aiming for, and the work also reflects its wartime surroundings as it takes on layers of grim grotesquerie as it proceeds; sample the bitter finale for what may well be Wordsworth at his best. It's quite a powerful little symphony that any orchestra might profitably program, and it receives a crisp reading here from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under James Loughran. The more relaxed Symphony No. 5 in A minor, Op. 68, composed in 1960s, makes less of an impact, but is beautifully orchestrated. The 1968 Overture "Conflict" for orchestra, Op. 86, was said by the composer to have been abstract, not a reaction to the contemporary Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; it too is less likely to stick with you than the Symphony No. 1 in F minor. The albums in this Lyrita series were taped off the radio by a BBC listener using high-end equipment, but they're still recordings made off the radio. Recommended for listeners interested in the large corpus of forgotten British music of the middle 20th century.
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Conflict, Op. 86 (William Wordsworth)
William Wordsworth, Composer - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - James Loughran, Conductor
(C) 2018 Lyrita (P) 2018 Lyrita
Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 23 (William Wordsworth)
William Wordsworth, Composer - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - James Loughran, Conductor
(C) 2018 Lyrita (P) 2018 Lyrita
William Wordsworth, Composer - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - James Loughran, Conductor
(C) 2018 Lyrita (P) 2018 Lyrita
William Wordsworth, Composer - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - James Loughran, Conductor
(C) 2018 Lyrita (P) 2018 Lyrita
William Wordsworth, Composer - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - James Loughran, Conductor
(C) 2018 Lyrita (P) 2018 Lyrita
Symphony No. 5 in A Minor, Op. 68 (William Wordsworth)
William Wordsworth, Composer - Stewart Robertson, Conductor - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Lyrita (P) 2018 Lyrita
William Wordsworth, Composer - Stewart Robertson, Conductor - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Lyrita (P) 2018 Lyrita
William Wordsworth, Composer - Stewart Robertson, Conductor - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Lyrita (P) 2018 Lyrita
Resenha do Álbum
The Lyrita label's series of albums based on BBC radio broadcasts of the 1970s revive not only a good deal of unknown music, but also some attitudes of a bygone day. From the notes here you learn, for example, that the opening chords of William Wordsworth's Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 23, were greeted with listener complaints because of their dissonance, when in fact they're not really dissonant at all, but merely chromatic and fully anchored in the home tonality of F minor. Be this as it may, the F minor symphony is worth a fresh hearing. Wordsworth, apparently a distant relation of the poet, was a Scottish composer who studied with the great Beethoven scholar Donald Francis Tovey, and you can hear that in this concise symphony that sounds a bit like the later Havergal Brian in its superimposition of an extremely terse motivic language onto a late Romantic tonal vocabulary. Sample the opening movement (track 2) above all. Wordsworth called the symphony, just shy of 34 minutes long in total, "long-winded," which gives you an idea of what he was aiming for, and the work also reflects its wartime surroundings as it takes on layers of grim grotesquerie as it proceeds; sample the bitter finale for what may well be Wordsworth at his best. It's quite a powerful little symphony that any orchestra might profitably program, and it receives a crisp reading here from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under James Loughran. The more relaxed Symphony No. 5 in A minor, Op. 68, composed in 1960s, makes less of an impact, but is beautifully orchestrated. The 1968 Overture "Conflict" for orchestra, Op. 86, was said by the composer to have been abstract, not a reaction to the contemporary Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; it too is less likely to stick with you than the Symphony No. 1 in F minor. The albums in this Lyrita series were taped off the radio by a BBC listener using high-end equipment, but they're still recordings made off the radio. Recommended for listeners interested in the large corpus of forgotten British music of the middle 20th century.
© TiVo
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- 1 disco(s) - 8 faixa(s)
- Duração total: 01:13:02
- 1 Folheto digital
- Artistas principais: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra James Loughran Stewart Robertson
- Compositor: William Wordsworth
- Gravadora: Lyrita
- Género: Clássica
(C) 2018 Lyrita (P) 2018 Lyrita
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