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Finzi: Cello Concerto, Eclogue, New Year Music, Etc / Lortie, Watkins, Davis, BBC Symphony
$21.99
Details
- Composer
- FINZI, GERALD
- Artist
- Watkins, Lortie, Davis
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Chandos
- Released
- Oct 05, 2018
- Catalog #
- CHSA 5214
- UPC
- 095115521427
About
A broad and meticulous selection of orchestral works and concertos by Gerald Finzi is here matched by a first-class cast of soloists, supported by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis, expert in British repertoire and conducting this year’s Last Night of the Proms. Paul Watkins displays exhilarating virtuosity in the Cello Concerto, a central work on this album, composed in the wake of the devastating news that Finzi was terminally ill, but yet filled with ‘vigorous, almost turbulent thematic material’, as he wrote in the programme note for the work’s premiere at the Cheltenham Music Festival in 1955. Louis Lortie, for his part, tackles the high-spirited and majestic Grand Fantasia and Toccata, the Fantasia originally conceived as part of a concerto for piano and strings and first performed on two pianos. This contrasts with the more restrained Eclogue for Piano and Strings, timeless, and blessed with a mood of benediction. This album also features the orchestral Nocturne (subtitled ‘New Year Music’), dark, misty, and at times ironic.
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REVIEW:
Sir Andrew Davis’s feeling for the composer’s sensitive, harmonically conservative language is abundantly clear in these vivid readings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Soloists too are well chosen. Cellist Paul Watkins proves a master of expressing powerful feelings through the prism of British reserve. Admirers of Finzi’s music can buy without hesitation.
– BBC Music Magazine
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REVIEW:
Sir Andrew Davis’s feeling for the composer’s sensitive, harmonically conservative language is abundantly clear in these vivid readings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Soloists too are well chosen. Cellist Paul Watkins proves a master of expressing powerful feelings through the prism of British reserve. Admirers of Finzi’s music can buy without hesitation.
– BBC Music Magazine
Tracklist 6 tracks
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1 I. Allegro moderato 16:10
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Allegro moderato
- Duration
- 16:10
- Composer
- Gerald Finzi
- Performer
- Paul Watkins
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Andrew Davis
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2 II. Andante quieto 12:10
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Andante quieto
- Duration
- 12:10
- Composer
- Gerald Finzi
- Performer
- Paul Watkins
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Andrew Davis
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3 III. Rondo: Adagio - Allegro giocoso 09:00
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Rondo: Adagio - Allegro giocoso
- Duration
- 09:00
- Composer
- Gerald Finzi
- Performer
- Paul Watkins
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Andrew Davis
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4 Eclogue, Op. 10 09:14
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Eclogue, Op. 10
- Duration
- 09:14
- Composer
- Gerald Finzi
- Performer
- Louis Lortie
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Andrew Davis
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5 New Year Music, Op. 7 10:03
- Track
- 5
- Title
- New Year Music, Op. 7
- Duration
- 10:03
- Composer
- Gerald Finzi
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Andrew Davis
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6 Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op. 38 13:28
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op. 38
- Duration
- 13:28
- Composer
- Gerald Finzi
- Performer
- Louis Lortie
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Andrew Davis