Dyson: Choral Symphony / Hill, Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
November 10, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DYSON, GEORGE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Watts, Hill
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 10, 2017
    • UPC
      747313377077
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573770
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Overture: Adagio - Allegro energico - Adagio e tranquillo

      Composer: George Dyson

      Ensemble: The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: David Hill

    2. II. Allegro agitato, ma non troppo - Quasi adagio e molto tranquillo - Allegretto cantabile

      Composer: George Dyson

      Ensemble: The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Elizabeth Watts

      Conductor: David Hill

    3. III. Largo

      Composer: George Dyson

      Ensemble: The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Elizabeth Watts, Caitlin Hulcup, Joshua Ellicott, Roderick Williams

      Conductor: David Hill

    4. IV. Allegro molto - Andante tranquillo - Con moto comodo

      Composer: George Dyson

      Ensemble: The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Elizabeth Watts

      Conductor: David Hill

    5. St Paul's Voyage to Melita

      Composer: George Dyson

      Ensemble: The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Joshua Ellicott

      Conductor: David Hill


Born into a working-class family, George Dyson became one of the most important musicians and composers of his day. The previously unknown Choral Symphony was written as an examination work while Dyson was studying at Oxford, and it was only recently discovered at the Bodleian Library. Dyson relishes his dramatic chosen text from Psalm 107 on the expulsion from and homecoming of the Jews to Israel, a narrative that inspires trademark features that would make his later works so attractive. Its seascape finale links neatly with St. Paul’s Voyage to Melita, another vivid text from which Technicolor musical images are conjured.