Elgar, Finzi, Howells, Webber & Vaughan Williams: Elegy

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Label
Quartz Music
Release Date
July 5, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Edward Elgar, Gerald Finzi, Herbert Howells, William Lloyd Webber, Ralph Vaughan Williams
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      National Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Philip Dukes, Jean Kelly
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 05, 2024
    • UPC
      880040216322
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      QTZ2163
    • LABEL
      Quartz Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Invocation

      Composer: William Lloyd Webber

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jean Kelly

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya

    2. Elegy, Op. 15

      Composer: Herbert Howells

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Philip Dukes

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya

    3. I. Barcarolle

      Composer: William Lloyd Webber

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya

    4. II. Romance

      Composer: William Lloyd Webber

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya

    5. III. Elegy

      Composer: William Lloyd Webber

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya

    6. In Moonlight (arr. D. Ogden for viola and orchestra)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Philip Dukes

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya

    7. I. Intrada

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya

    8. II. Burlesca Ostinata

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya

    9. III. Sarabande

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya

    10. IV. Scherzo

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya

    11. V. March and Reprise

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya

    12. Romance in E-Flat Major, Op. 11

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya

    13. 5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Rimma Sushanskaya


That there is indeed something of the ethereal, of the timeless, and of the indefinable pervading all of the music heard on this CD instantly calls into question our shared notions of what the term Elegy actually signifies. Here the listener will encounter none of the unutterable despair of, for example, Samuel Barber's great Adagio for Strings, or the tortured valediction of Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen, but rather an introspection and wistfulness of an altogether gentler sort. As the poet Thomas Gray expressed it in his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), "Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre