Chandos
Overtures from the British Isles / Gamba
$21.99
Details
- Composer
- AUSTIN BANTOCK COWEN GARDIN
- Artist
- Gamba
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Chandos
- Released
- Jan 28, 2014
- Catalog #
- CHAN 10797
- UPC
- 095115179727
About
"As Rumon Gamba's nicely slick performances with BBCNOW show, these are all nicely proportioned pieces...they don't deserve the total neglect they've suffered for the last three-quarters of a century." - The Guardian
Rumon Gamba and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales present a collection of rarely heard overtures from the British Isles. Among these is Sir Frederic Cowen’s The Butterfly’s Ball (1901), illustrating a popular children’s poem by William Roscoe. All is vividly evoked by Cowen’s pleasing melodic lines and delicate instrumental colour. It is easy to see why, in its day, the piece was a firm favourite, being played twenty-six times at the Proms between 1900 and 1940. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor achieved immediate success early in his career with his four-part cantata cycle collectively known as Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha. The Overture, composed in 1899, was intended as a prelude to the complete cycle but is now rarely heard in this context. Indeed, very little of the material in this Overture comes from the other Hiawatha pieces, the principal theme being the spiritual ‘Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord’. Perhaps better known as a leading baritone of his generation, Frederic Austin was also a composer of some achievement. In his tuneful and exciting concert overture The Sea Venturers, from 1936, he wanted to evoke ‘something of the lives and character of English seamen who...took peril and pleasure as it came’. - Chandos
Rumon Gamba and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales present a collection of rarely heard overtures from the British Isles. Among these is Sir Frederic Cowen’s The Butterfly’s Ball (1901), illustrating a popular children’s poem by William Roscoe. All is vividly evoked by Cowen’s pleasing melodic lines and delicate instrumental colour. It is easy to see why, in its day, the piece was a firm favourite, being played twenty-six times at the Proms between 1900 and 1940. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor achieved immediate success early in his career with his four-part cantata cycle collectively known as Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha. The Overture, composed in 1899, was intended as a prelude to the complete cycle but is now rarely heard in this context. Indeed, very little of the material in this Overture comes from the other Hiawatha pieces, the principal theme being the spiritual ‘Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord’. Perhaps better known as a leading baritone of his generation, Frederic Austin was also a composer of some achievement. In his tuneful and exciting concert overture The Sea Venturers, from 1936, he wanted to evoke ‘something of the lives and character of English seamen who...took peril and pleasure as it came’. - Chandos
Tracklist 8 tracks
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1 The Sea Venturers 11:07
- Track
- 1
- Title
- The Sea Venturers
- Duration
- 11:07
- Composer
- Frederic Austin
- Ensemble
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Conductor
- Rumon Gamba
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2 Oedipus Tyrannus, Op. 29: Prelude 08:27
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Oedipus Tyrannus, Op. 29: Prelude
- Duration
- 08:27
- Composer
- Charles Villiers Stanford
- Ensemble
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Conductor
- Rumon Gamba
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3 Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha, Op. 30: No. 3. Overture 11:22
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha, Op. 30: No. 3. Overture
- Duration
- 11:22
- Composer
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Ensemble
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Conductor
- Rumon Gamba
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4 The Butterfly's Ball 11:48
- Track
- 4
- Title
- The Butterfly's Ball
- Duration
- 11:48
- Composer
- Frederic Hymen Cowen
- Ensemble
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Conductor
- Rumon Gamba
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5 The Frogs 08:26
- Track
- 5
- Title
- The Frogs
- Duration
- 08:26
- Composer
- Granville Bantock
- Ensemble
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Conductor
- Rumon Gamba
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6 The Little Minister, Op. 57: Overture 08:11
- Track
- 6
- Title
- The Little Minister, Op. 57: Overture
- Duration
- 08:11
- Composer
- Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
- Ensemble
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Conductor
- Rumon Gamba
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7 Macbeth: Overture 08:16
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Macbeth: Overture
- Duration
- 08:16
- Composer
- Arthur Sullivan
- Ensemble
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Conductor
- Rumon Gamba
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8 Overture to a Comedy 08:26
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Overture to a Comedy
- Duration
- 08:26
- Composer
- Henry Balfour Gardiner
- Ensemble
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Conductor
- Rumon Gamba