Through Gold & Silver Clouds - British Music / Hughes, Camerata Wales

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Label
BIS
Release Date
February 1, 2007
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DELIUS, FREDERICK ELGAR, EDWA
    • PERFORMER
      Owain Arwel, Wales Camerata, Hughes
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 01, 2007
    • UPC
      7318590015896
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-CD-1589
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro piacevole

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    2. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    3. III. Allegretto

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    4. Fantasia in A Minor

      Composer: Arwel Hughes

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    5. I. Basse-Danse

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    6. II. Pavane

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    7. III. Tordion

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    8. IV. Bransles

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    9. V. Pieds-en-l'air

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    10. VI. Mattachins

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    11. No. 1. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    12. No. 2. Summer Night on the River

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    13. I. Jig

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    14. II. Ostinato

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    15. III. Intermezzo

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    16. IV. Finale, "The Dargason"

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

    17. Elegy, Op. 58

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Wales Camerata

      Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes


Sir Edward Elgar once described the sensation of flying in an aeroplane to Frederick Delius: 'There is a delightful feeling of elation in sailing through gold and silver clouds. It is, Delius, rather like your music - a little intangible sometimes, but always very beautiful.' On this disc, Camerata Wales - consisting of some of today's finest Welsh musicians - and conductor Owain Arwel Hughes bring together not only Elgar and Delius, but also Holst, Peter Warlock and Welsh composer Arwel Hughes (father of the conductor) in a programme which is certainly both elating and beautiful. St. Paul's Suite and Capriol are both works that have proved almost impossible to sit still to while listening, while in Arwel Hughes' Fantasia, based on 'an old ecclesiastical theme', it is an elegiac melody bathed in nostalgia that sets the tone. Delius's Cuckoo and Summer Night are the most English of all English music - even though the river portrayed in the latter piece is actually French: the Loing, flowing past Delius's home near Fontainebleau. These gems are framed by Elgar's Serenade for Strings, one of his best-loved works and glowing with an identifiably Edwardian warmth throughout, and his Elegy, whose brevity (it lasts around five minutes) belies its depth of emotion.