English String Music
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BRITTEN / HOLST / WARLOCK
English String Music
Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Richard Studt (conductor)
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 14 March 2004
This item is only available to us via Special Order. We should be able to get it to you in 3 - 6 weeks from when you order it.
"the strings of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta conducted by Richard Studt give freshly alive and highly spontaneous perfomrances"
- Classic CD
The 20th century has produced an astonishingly rich and diverse amount of British music for string orchestra. Several works, indeed, may truly be counted amongst the very finest music ever written for the genre, regardless of century or country of origin. The Tallis Fantasia of Vaughan Williams immediately comes to mind in this respect, with Elgar's Introduction and Allegro and Tippett's masterly Concerto for Double String Orchestra. Comparable with these great achievements is Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, a work of the very first rank, a composition of great power and hidden depths, superbly crafted.
Tracks:
Britten, Benjamin: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10
Delius, Frederick: Two Aquarelles
Holst, Gustav: St. Paul's Suite, Op. 29, No. 2
Warlock, Peter: Capriol Suite
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: 5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus
