Ireland, Bridge: Suites, Etc / Garforth, English Co

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
February 27, 2008
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      IRELAND, JOHN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      English Chamber Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      David, Garforth
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 27, 2008
    • UPC
      095115839027
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 8390
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Prelude

      Composer: John Ireland

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: David Garforth

    2. II. Elegy

      Composer: John Ireland

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: David Garforth

    3. III. Minuet

      Composer: John Ireland

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: David Garforth

    4. IV. Rondo

      Composer: John Ireland

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: David Garforth

    5. 4 Preludes: No. 3. The Holy Boy

      Composer: John Ireland

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: David Garforth

    6. Elegiac Meditation (arr. G. Bush for orchestra)

      Composer: John Ireland

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: David Garforth

    7. I. Prelude

      Composer: Frank Bridge

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: David Garforth

    8. II. Intermezzo

      Composer: Frank Bridge

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: David Garforth

    9. III. Nocturne

      Composer: Frank Bridge

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: David Garforth

    10. IV. Finale

      Composer: Frank Bridge

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: David Garforth


All these works are small in scale and modest in their emotional range, but they make a highly enjoyable collection. John Ireland's wistful, slightly melancholy romanticism is well brought out by David Garforth, and the orchestra respond with warm, sensitive playing. Though the ECO are not a large ensemble they produce considerable depth of tone and their rich string sound has been well captured by the engineers.

Norman del Mar's performance of the Bridge Suite, also on Chandos, is most sympathetic and there is little to choose between his version and that of Garforth. But Del Mar's original 1978 recording is a little pale in comparison with the new issue, and though the strings of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta play well they sound fewer in number and less tonally opulent than the ECO players.

-- Gramophone [5/1987]