Music for Strings
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / HERBERT HOWELLS / FREDERICK DELIUS / SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Music for Strings
John Wilson, Sinfonia Of London
[ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Friday 3 February 2023
BBC MUSIC - RECORDING OF THE YEAR 2023
BBC MUSIC - ORCHESTRAL RECORDING OF THE YEAR 2023
This keenly anticipated album from Sinfonia of London and John Wilson features two of the greatest British works for string orchestra: Ralph Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and Sir Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro. Elgar's ground-breaking work, commissioned for the newly formed London Symphony Orchestra and premièred in 1905, is inspired by the baroque concerto grosso, and features a solo string quartet contrasted with the full symphonic string section. These orchestral forces were also adopted by Herbert Howells in his Concerto for String Orchestra, from 1938. Delius's Late Swallows is the only piece not originally composed for string orchestra; it was arranged (from the slow movement of Delius's String Quartet) by his amanuensis, Eric Fenby. Recorded in Surround Sound and available as a Hybrid SACD, and digitally in Spatial Audio.
BBC MUSIC - RECORDING OF THE YEAR 2023
"The sound, engineered by Ralph Couzens, is magnificent...While fully relishing the at times dreamy polyphony of Vaughan Williams's textures, Wilson's Fantasia has sharp, impassioned edges too, and a telling poignancy in leader John Mills's solos" BBC Music Magazine WINNER Orchestral 2024
"I expect it has been said before, but the Sinfonia of London belongs in the Formula 1 class of orchestras, and in this repertoire sits in pole position." Gramophone Magazine March 2023 Editor's Choice
Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Orchestral
Tracks:
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
1. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis *
HERBERT HOWELLS
Concerto for String Orchestra *
To Sir Adrain Boult
2. IAllegro, assai vivace - Un pochissimo meno mosso
3. IIIn Memoriam: E.E. (1934) and M.K.H. (1935)
Quasi lento: teneramente - Lento assai; appassionato
4.IIIAllegro vivo: ritmico e giocoso - Vivo - Come prima
FREDERICK DELIUS
5. Late Swallows
Slow Movement from String Quartet
Arranged 1962-63 for String Orchestra by Eric Fenby (1906-1997)
SIR EDWARD ELGAR (1857 - 1934)
Introduction and Allegro, Op.47 *
for Strings (Quartet and Orchestra)
To his friend Professor S.S. Sanford, Yale University, U.S.A.
6.[Introduction]. Moderato - Allegretto
Moderato - Moderato - Allegretto
7.Allegro - Nobilmente
8.Allegro (Tempo I) - Più animato
Solo Violin *
John Mills
Solo Violin *
Michael Trainor
Solo Viola *
Andriy Viytovych
Solo Cello *
Richard Harwood
