German: The Seasons / Richard III - Overture / Theme and Six Diversions

 
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EDWARD GERMAN
German: The Seasons / Richard III - Overture / Theme and Six Diversions
RTE Concert Orchestra, Andrew Penny

[ Marco Polo / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 11 November 2022

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Jettisoning the support of teaching and conducting appointments early in his career and working solely as a professional composer, Sir Edward German rose to prominence as a composer of orchestral music in the last decade of the 19th century. The popularity of his music resulted in prestigious commissions from festivals and theatrical producers, such as The Seasons written for the 1899 Norwich Festival, with its masterly evocations of nature, nostalgic yearnings
and rustic festivities. The Theme and Six Diversions, one of the composer's finest concert works, owed its inspiration to a suggestion by German's friend and admirer Sir Edward Elgar.

Recorded: 6-7 January 1994 at Taney Parish Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Tracks:

Richard III - Overture (1889) 9:28
Theme and Six Diversions (1919) 16:56
The Seasons (Symphonic Suite) (1899) 38:53