British Composers of Cello Concertos

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karlhenning

#40
February 14, 2011, 02:36:01 PM
Oops! Thanks for the erratum, lads. Leave it to me to gaffe the familiy ties : )

Guido

#41
February 15, 2011, 04:58:59 AM
Quote from: sul G (again) on February 14, 2011, 02:32:22 PM
It's not the father we really need to worry about, though, is it. Perfectly respectable composer, he was. It's the brother where the horror lies....

Rather bland though, the father, as far as I can make out. I don't much respect either of his children as artists, though Julian is certainly the better.
Geologist.

The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away

Luke

#42
February 15, 2011, 05:54:15 AM
Yes, I have a single solitary disc of the father's music (hoping against hope that everyone who looks at the spines of my CDs realises that they are arranged chronologically and, no, that isn't a disc of Andrew's stuff). The father could obviously compose properly, but it's pretty tepid, I have to say.

J.Z. Herrenberg

#43
September 22, 2011, 12:12:23 AM



This is a very enjoyable CD. I find the York Bowen Rhapsody absolutely beautiful and Brian shows himself from his most genial side. I don't care much for the Alan Bush concerto, though...
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

vandermolen

#44
September 22, 2011, 09:53:53 AM
Am great fan of Bridge's 'Oration' (both Lyrita and EMI recordings are excellent).

Just ordered this:

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"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).

Dundonnell

#45
September 22, 2011, 10:00:08 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on September 22, 2011, 09:53:53 AM
Am great fan of Bridge's 'Oration' (both Lyrita and EMI recordings are excellent).

Just ordered this:

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http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,231.80.html

vandermolen

#46
September 22, 2011, 03:14:08 PM
"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).

Maestro267

#47
August 24, 2015, 01:56:10 PM
Since this thread was last posted in, the Robert Simpson Cello Concerto has been recorded and released on Lyrita, coupled with concerti by John Joubert and Christopher Wright.

Great read, this. The cello is my favourite string-section instrument. As for my own collection, it is currently quite small (especially compared to the many names mentioned here): Elgar, Walton, Bax, Bliss, Bridge (Oration) and Finzi as of now.

San Antone

#48
September 27, 2015, 04:25:53 AM
Gerald Finzi : British composer



Finzi wrote two masterpieces - his Cello Concerto, completed in 1955 and his choral work Intimations of Immortality -a setting of words by William Wordsworth.  In 1951, however, Finzi learned that he was suffering from Hodgkin's Disease, a form of leukaemia, and was told he had between five and ten years to live. The discovery in no way lessened his activities, particularly those undertaken for other composers.  Finzi finally lost the fight against his illness and he died on September 27, 1956. His Cello Concerto was first broadcast the night before he died.

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