MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Milford: Fishing by Moonlight
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ROBIN MILFORD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Milford: Fishing by Moonlight
Guildhall Strings, with Julian Sperry (flute) Julian Milford (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 11 August 2004
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'This is music for an English summer evening, with a glass of wine to hand - rewarding in its unpretentious, melodious, nicely crafted way; especially when played with sympathy and elegance by Robert Salter and the excellent Guildhall Strings and so naturally balanced and recorded by Andrew Keener. Don't miss it'
- Gramophone
Critics' Choice Gramophone Magazine 2004
'This is music for an English summer evening, with a glass of wine to hand - rewarding in its unpretentious, melodious, nicely crafted way; especially when played with sympathy and elegance by Robert Salter and the excellent Guildhall Strings and so naturally balanced and recorded by Andrew Keener. Don't miss it'
- Gramophone
Robin Milford is one of those distinctive English composers who proliferated between the wars, but whose reputation suffered in the face of the avant garde establishment in vogue during the 1950s and '60s. Milford composed a range of music, from short practical works for children or amateurs to large-scale works including oratorios, an opera and a symphony.
This delightful disc presents Milford's music at its most quintessential and endearing. During the war Milford lost his six-year-old son to a road accident, a shattering personal catastrophe that blighted the remaining eighteen years of his life. Milford's idiom deepened and matured, and his ability to distil a mood or atmosphere into surprisingly simplelooking textures is his most rewarding trait. The music on this disc ranges from the soaring intensity of the Elegiac Meditation for viola and string orchestra of 1946-7 (a meditation on the losses of six years of war, or perhaps Milford was thinking of his dead son Barnaby), to the spirited and easy-going Festival Suite, written in 1950 to mark the Festival of Britain the following year. Milford's most famous work, Fishing by Moonlight, opens the disc, and is ravishingly performed by Guildhall Strings, with the composer's grand-nephew Julian Milford at the piano.
Once again, Guildhall Strings perform unduly neglected British music with refinement and a rare sense of shared enjoyment.
Tracks:
Fishing by Moonlight Op 96a for piano and strings [6'33]
Andante espressivo
Miniature Concerto in G Op 35 for string orchestra [9'09]
Allegro [3'12]
Adagio [3'31]
Allegro vivace [2'23]
Elegiac Meditation Op 83 for viola and string orchestra [8'23]
Grave - Moderato (agitato) - Andantino semplice
Two Orchestral Interludes Op 19e for flute, strings and piano [3'49]
Mr John Peel Passes By Briskly [1'52]
Mr Ben Jonson's Pleasure At a leisurely pace [1'53]
Go, little book - Suite Op 18 for flute, soprano and strings [14'55]
Introduction Allegro vivace† [1'00]
Thy Garden Andante [2'42]
Meat in Thy Hall Tempo di menuetto (In strict time throughout) [2'49]
Thy Bin of Wine Adagio - Allegro [0'40]
Thy Wit Andante con moto [2'50]
Thy House and Lawns Adagio [1'45]
Thy Living River Moderato [1'30]
Thy Nightingale Con moto [1'37]
Elegy for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch Op 50 for string orchestra [7'06]
Lento - Allegro vivace - Poco lento - Più animato - Lento molto
Interlude for flute and strings Op 69a Poco lento [5'10]
Festival Suite Op 97 for string orchestra [14'27]
Overture Adagio - Allegro moderato - Adagio [2'55]
Siciliana Adagietto [3'34]
Slow Minuet and Trio Poco lento [4'26]
Scherzo Poco adagio - Allegro - Poco adagio - Allegro [3'29]
