[ Chandos Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 28 February 2003
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"Heartfelt, polished advocacy for some neglected music - a job well done."
Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (March 2003)
"A splendid follow-up to Chandos's 1999 Vol 1 of music by two Anglo-Australians. Hubert Clifford (1904-59) left Australia to come to London where he worked for the BBC and with Alexander Korda at London Films. Edgar Bainton (1880-1956) emigrated to Australia in 1934 and worked as Director of the New South Wales State Conservatorium in Sydney. Both write in a very appealing, late-Romantic idiom which in the case of Bainton is at times reminiscent of Howells. Heartfelt, polished advocacy for some neglected music - a job well done."
Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (March 2003)
'Delightful'
BBC Music Magazine
Edgar Bainton (1880-1956)
1 Epithalamion (1929) 13:12
Rhapsody for Full Orchestra
Performing edition by Rodney Newton
Molto vivace - Meno allegro - Tempo I -
An English Idyll (1946)* 18:15
for baritone and orchestra
2 1 Pastoral. Andante, molto tranquillo 3:50
3 2 London. Andante grazioso con moto - 4:24
4 3 The Cathedral. Andante, un poco mosso 9:54
Hubert Clifford (1904-1959)
A Kentish Suite (1935) 19:48
5 I Dover. Introduction - Alla hornpipe 3:40
6 II A Choral Prelude on 'Canterbury'. With dignity 2:39
7 III Pastoral and Folk Song. Lento pastorale - 4:52
8 IV Swift Nicks of Gad's Hill: A Scherzo. Allegro con brio 3:28
9 V Greenwich: A Pageant of the River. Maestoso 5:00
10 The Casanova Melody (1949) 3:40
from Carol Reed's Production of The Third Man
Written under the name of Michael Sarsfield
Orchestral realisation by Rodney Newton (2000)
Andante moderato
Five English Nursery Tunes (1941) 16:20
A Suite for Orchestra
11 I The Frog and the Mouse. Allegro capriccioso - Presto 3:34
12 II The Evening Prayer. Lento 3:03
13 III Lavender's Blue. Allegretto scherzando 2:35
14 IV Curly Locks. Andantino 4:14
15 V London Bridge. Allegro molto 2:41
16 Shanagolden (1953) 4:08
An Irish Pastoral Sketch
Andantino pastorale - Lento