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Quite what Northumbrian smallpipes and Irish bodhrán players were doing in Salford is never explained, nor how he manages to recall so vividly the sounds and atmosphere of evenings from nearly sixty years previously, when by his own admission a lad of only four or five!\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e  Northumbrian smallpipes are like the archetypal Highland bagpipes but smaller, and kept inflated by an underarm bellows rather than a player's necessarily strong lungs. Their harmonica-like tone, as this recording demonstrates, is considerably softer than the bagpipes, and pitting them against an orchestra is an unlikely idea. Maxwell Davies certainly knows how to orchestrate effectively, and the smallpipes and bodhrán do their stuff when the  \u003cem\u003etutti\u003c\/em\u003e are subdued or even silent, as in the bodhrán solo in the section entitled 'The Juggler' - which, bizarrely, is met by score-directed human cheers and applause.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e  Sound quality in both recordings is very good, especially when their age is taken into consideration.\u003cbr\u003e  The booklet notes are detailed with regard to the works themselves, but there is no information at all about the two soloists, nor about the bodhrán or Northumbrian smallpipes - in the latter's case, there are variations of and idiosyncrasies associated with the basic instrument, and a note of enlargement would not have gone amiss.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e  The timing is generous, however, and the performances first-rate. 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An extreme case, perhaps, but matters have improved since then for Respighi. There will never be any lack of musical fountains or pines about Rome for anyone to appreciate, but a lot more of the composer’s music has visibility now, and an attentive public. The \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003ePreludio, corale e fuga\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e appears occasionally on concert programs, and I’m sure we’ll soon hear that the \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eBurlesca\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e is doing the same. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003ePreludio, corale e fuga\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e was composed in 1900, when Respighi was taking lessons from Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg. The work was written under the older master’s supervision; and certainly his touch can be heard in some of the harmonic progressions, the characteristic use of the strings and winds (especially the flutes), and the transformation of themes. There’s much of Respighi already present, however, notably in the arresting brass chorale (before it is harmonized and enters an Eastern Orthodox church), and the fugue subject and its chromatic treatment. Above all, the scope of the work and its mix of rigor and fancy point to a young, ambitious composer of considerable promise. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eMore consistently interesting is the \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eBurlesca\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, a phantasmagoric piece despite its title, rather than something mock-serious like Strauss’s \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eBurleske\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e. 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It appeared in 1925 and was a success at its premiere, but has been eclipsed through the years by a suite drawn from the ballet. By contrast, while \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eRossiniana\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e still gets heard on occasion, that can’t be said of the \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eFive études-tableaux\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e. They began life as Rachmaninoff’s ops. 33 and 39 piano collections from 1911 and 1917, respectively. For whatever reason, the composer had no interest in orchestrating a selection of these, so it was left to Serge Koussevitzky to suggest Respighi as a likely candidate. Rachmaninoff agreed; and the results come surprisingly close, not merely in the romantic, fantastical and warlike passages, but in singling out the mordant thread that runs through both “La Foire” and “Le Chaperon rouge et le loup.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eI find the value of these performances to be mixed. Noseda strives above all for clarity, which yields a harvest of welcome orchestral detail from this orchestrally brilliant composer. 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Prokofiev wrote tuneful music, rich and rhythmic, and James Ehnes is outstanding in bringing this attractive music to life.\" Peter Spaull - Liverpool Post - 19 September 2013","brand":"Chandos","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46027383505130,"sku":"095115178720","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/2309565.jpg?v=1778289849"},{"product_id":"antheil-orchestral-works-vol-1-storgards-bbc-56471","title":"Antheil: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 \/ Storgards, BBC Philharmonic","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlongside its ongoing much-lauded Copland series, the BBC Philharmonic embarks on a new American journey, this time with its chief guest conductor, John Storgards. 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Also here is the premiere recording of the Texas-inspired Over the Plains, memorable for its allusions to cowboy music and offering some unexpectedly dramatic and atmospheric twists along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chandos","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46027383767274,"sku":"095115194126","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/3629441.jpg?v=1778286110"},{"product_id":"holst-orchestral-works-vol-2-davis-bbc-62451","title":"Holst: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 \/ Davis, BBC Philharmonic","description":"This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A Gramophone Disc of the Month\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ctitle\u003e3513280.az_HOLST_Planets_1.html\u003c\/title\u003e  \u003cmeta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"COMPOSER12\"\u003eHOLST \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eThe Planets.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e1\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003e Beni Mora. 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Certain labels have always had a distinctive sound, and this is especially true of Chandos. The sound of this disc is typical of Chandos’s best orchestral recordings: There is more sense of the hall—in this instance Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall—than on most other labels, a feature particularly evident in SACD mode, but the recording still is immediate enough to pack a real wallop. Listen, for example, to the organ pedal in “Saturn,” or the \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003effff \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003efull-organ glissando at the end of “Uranus.” The dynamic range in “Mars” is huge, and the offstage women’s voices in “Neptune” come from some unknown place. The BBC Philharmonic, surely among England’s top orchestras by now, plays superbly; “Mercury” is on the button, “Jupiter” polished rather than ragged as so often heard. The women of the Manchester Chamber Choir sing with pure tone and perfect intonation, again a refreshing change from most versions. Sir Andrew Davis, now a seasoned veteran, gives a reading of which Sir Adrian Boult would have been proud, atmospheric in “Venus,” light in “Mercury,” and monumental in “Saturn.” Put another way, “Mercury” is mercurial, “Saturn” saturnine, “Jupiter” jovial. This \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003ePlanets \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003ewould be a high recommendation in stereo; for multichannel listeners it’s a must. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThis release is titled \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eHolst: Orchestral Works, Volume 2\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e; Volume 1, which turned out to be the final recording by the late Richard Hickox, included four ballet scores from late in Holst’s career. (The reviewer for a well-known British magazine cited the “splendid and fulsome sound” of that disc, perhaps illustrating Shaw’s observation that England and America are two countries separated by a common language.) According to Chandos’s Ralph Couzens, the series was to have culminated in \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eThe Planets\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, but the plan obviously had to be revised. Volume 1 was reviewed in \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eFanfare\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e 32:6 by Peter J. Rabinowitz, who found some of the scores rather weak; I suspect that, rather than marking any decline in Holst’s creativity, the problem lies in the differences between the music Holst wrote for amateurs (including at least two of the works in Volume 1) and for professionals. The three works in the present volume were not only all written for professionals, but date from around the same time: \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eThe Planets\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e was written in 1914–16, the \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eJapanese Suite\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e during the composition of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eThe Planets\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eBeni Mora\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e (subtitled “Oriental Suite”) a bit earlier, in 1909–10. Of the two shorter suites, \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eBeni Mora\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, inspired by a trip to Algeria, is the more interesting. The \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eJapanese Suite\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e was written for a Japanese dancer, who provided Holst with the themes; for once (in contrast to the Second Suite for Military Band and his many choral folk-song settings), the themes seem to limit Holst’s imagination, and the work lacks the vitality of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eBeni Mora. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThe shade of Boult looms large over these performances; his recordings of the two shorter works for Lyrita (SRCD 222) still sound terrific, and are a bit more incisive than Davis’s mostly admirable readings. As for \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eThe Planets\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, of course, Boult was the conductor of the informal first performance in 1918, and his five recordings, particularly the two stereo versions for EMI—dating from 1966 and 1978!—are uniquely authoritative. But Davis’s interpretation is compelling in its own right, and Chandos’s sonics blow away even EMI’s fine sound. This SACD is superb both musically and sonically, and Davis’s grasp of Holst’s idiom bodes well for further volumes in Chandos’s Holst cycle. Highly recommended! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-weight:bold\"\u003eFANFARE: Richard A. 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