Alan Bush(1900-95)

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Maestro267

#40
February 24, 2023, 06:51:58 AM
Ah yes, I've heard it's a beast. Positively Busonian. Shame it hasn't been commercially recorded.

Albion

#41
February 24, 2023, 07:05:52 AM
Quote from: Maestro267 on February 24, 2023, 06:51:58 AMAh yes, I've heard it's a beast. Positively Busonian. Shame it hasn't been commercially recorded.

Yep, it's a numb-the-bum concerto but well worth it. Slatkin moves things along and the "worthy" Swingler text is well delivered in the finale. Dutton seem to have given up on Alan Bush, so any avenue of commercial recording seems pretty remote. Let me know if you're interested in any of this caboodle:

Bush, Alan (1900-1995)

Dance Overture, Op.12 (1935)
BBC SO/ Brian Priestman (br. 2/3/1981)

Piano Concerto, Op.18 (1935-37)
Rolf Hind, piano/ Ashley Holland, bar/ Apollo Voices/ BBC SO/ Leonard Slatkin (br. 19/12/2000)

Birthday Overture, Op.23 (1942)
USSR State SO/ Alan Bush (3/10/1963, Melodiya LP D-012687/90)

The Winter Journey, Op.29 (1946)
Wendy Eathorne, sop; Peter Savidge, bar/ BBC Singers/ Park Lane Music Players/ Simon Joly (1980, br. 22/12/1995)

Piers Plowman's Day, Op.30 (1946-47)
BBC CO/ Barry Wordsworth (br. 21/12/1995)

Violin Concerto, Op.32 (1946-48)
Maureen Smith, violin/ BBC Northern SO/ Bernard Keeffe (br. 28/3/1982)

Symphony No.2, Nottingham, Op.33 (1949)
USSR State SO/ Alan Bush (3/10/1963, Melodiya LP D-012687/90)

Symphony No.2, Nottingham, Op.33 (1949)
BBC SO/ Brian Priestman (br. 2/3/1981)

Men of Blackmoor (1954-55)
Joseph Ward, ten (Geordie); Nielson Taylor, bar (Daniel); Jane Manning, sop (Sarah); Carole Rosen, mezzo (Jenny); Norman Lumsden, bass (Thomas); Gordon Farrall, bar (Fletcher); John Stentson, bass (Lead Miner); Peter Bingham, ten (Young Lead Miner); Jolyon Dodgson, bass (Soldier); Derek Perry, ten (1st Miner);  Derek Williamson, ten (2nd Miner); Brian Fish, bass (3rd Miner); Terence Rogan, bass (4th Miner)/ BBC Northern Singers/ BBC CO/ Stanford Robinson (br. 2/10/1969, 11/1/1995)

Dorian Passacaglia and Fugue, Op.52 (1959)
BBC SO/ Alan Bush (br. 27/8/1964)
 
Symphony No.3, Byron, with baritone solo and mixed chorus, Op.53 (1959-60)
Robert Lauhofer, bar/ Leipzig Radio Choir/ Leipzig SO/ Herbert Kegel (20/3/1962, br. 23/9/1976)

Variations, Nocturne and Finale on an Old English Sea Song for Piano and Orchestra, Op.60 (1962)
David Wilde, piano/ RPO/ John Snashall (Pye Golden Guinea LP GGC4073, 1966)

The Sugar Reapers (1962-65) - excerpts [sung in German]
Joseph Hrubrant, bar (Johnny Lucas); Helga Leuchtmann, sop (Sumintra); Edgar Waehlte, ten (Joseph Lucas); Katric Woelzel, mezzo (Mrs Lucas); Guntfried Speck, bass (Pansar); Stannoff Petroff, bass (Ganesh Maraj); Anna Tomova-Sintov, sop (Ella); Helmut Koltz, bar (Souza); Helmut Evle, bar (African Villager); Anna Barová, mezzo (African Village Worker); Bernd Siegfried Weber, bass (Georgetown Officer); Werner Atzrodt, ten (Indian Worker)/ Leipzig Opera Chorus/ Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/ Rolf Reuter (br. 24/9/1976)

Joe Hill - The Man Who Never Died (1965-67)
Malcolm Donnelly, bass (Joe Hill); Tom McDonnell, bar (Ed Rowan); Richard Angas, bass (Alexander Marshall); Henry Howell, ten (Ben Winton); Phyllis Cannan, sop (Hilda); Milla Andrew, sop (Martha, Viola Healey); Raimund Herincx, bari (Blake, Judge Beard); Frank Olegario, bass (Henry Weber, Stone); Willard White, bass (John Moody, District Attorney); Bryan Drake, bar (Isidore Rabinowitz, William Weed); Tom Swift, ten (Tom Sharpe); Maxwell Harrison, bar (Adam Steele); Kenneth Woollam, ten (Harry Macrae); Graeme Matheson-Bruce, ten (Scott McBridge, Judge Weitch, Cowboy); Alan Woodrow, ten (Judge Mitchell, O'Leary, Italian); Glyn Davenport, bass (Mike Daly, Rev White, Policeman); Alan Watt, bass (Gordon, Engineer, Greek Worker); Gillian Ramsden, mezzo (Martin Henderson)/ Ed Bishop, narrator/
BBC Singers/ BBC CO/ James Judd (br. 11/4/1981)

Scherzo for Winds and Percussion, Op.68 (1969)
BBC SO/ Alan Bush (br. 29/7/1969)

Scherzo for Winds and Percussion, Op.68 (1969)
BBC SO/ Alan Bush (br. 29/7/1969)

Africa, Symphonic Movement for Piano and Orchestra, Op.73 (1971)
William Langford, piano/ BBC Welsh SO/ Bryden Thomson (br. 1972)

The Liverpool Overture, Op.77 (1973)
BBC Northern SO/ Nicholas Cleobury (br. 2/12/1981)

Symphony No.4, Lascaux, Op.98 (1982-3)
Bernard Robinson, piano/ BBC PO/ Edward Downes (br. 25/3/1986)

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A piece is worth your attention, and is itself for you praiseworthy, if it makes you feel you have not wasted your time over it. (SG, 1922)

Irons

#42
February 24, 2023, 07:31:13 AM
A couple of LPs on my shelves.



A recording of the Violin Concerto I rate highly and yet seemingly sunk without trace.

You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

vandermolen

#44
February 27, 2023, 12:14:53 PM
Quote from: Irons on February 24, 2023, 07:31:13 AMA couple of LPs on my shelves.



A recording of the Violin Concerto I rate highly and yet seemingly sunk without trace.


Love the L S Lowry cover!
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Irons

#45
February 28, 2023, 12:10:37 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on February 27, 2023, 12:14:53 PMLove the L S Lowry cover!

Yes, good one, Jeffrey. Titled Industrial Scene commissioned by The Arts Council for the Festival of Britain, 1951.

I played Dialectic, for String Quartet from this LP. At just under 15 minutes I doubt there are many as concentrated pieces written by British composers.
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

Roasted Swan

#46
February 28, 2023, 08:45:39 AM
Quote from: Irons on February 28, 2023, 12:10:37 AMYes, good one, Jeffrey. Titled Industrial Scene commissioned by The Arts Council for the Festival of Britain, 1951.

I played Dialectic, for String Quartet from this LP. At just under 15 minutes I doubt there are many as concentrated pieces written by British composers.

That must be a very early Hyperion LP - I don't remember seeing it and I don't think it made it to CD either...?

Irons

#47
March 01, 2023, 02:20:56 AM
Quote from: Roasted Swan on February 28, 2023, 08:45:39 AMThat must be a very early Hyperion LP - I don't remember seeing it and I don't think it made it to CD either...?

Exactly so. I have only laid eyes on the copy I own. The recording was published well into the CD era,1985.
Only one upload of Dialectic on YouTube which is taken from 78s (worth a listen). I have not checked VC. 
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.
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