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

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Details

Composer
DELIUS, FREDERICK ELGAR, EDWA
Artist
Owain Arwel, Wales Camerata, Hughes
Format
CD
Label
BIS
Released
Feb 01, 2007
Catalog #
BIS-CD-1589
UPC
7318590015896

About

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.

Tracklist 17 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro piacevole 03:36
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro piacevole
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  2. 2 II. Larghetto 06:43
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Larghetto
    Duration
    06:43
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  3. 3 III. Allegretto 02:55
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegretto
    Duration
    02:55
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  4. 4 Fantasia in A Minor 11:20
    Track
    4
    Title
    Fantasia in A Minor
    Duration
    11:20
    Composer
    Arwel Hughes
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  5. 5 I. Basse-Danse 01:31
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Basse-Danse
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Peter Warlock
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  6. 6 II. Pavane 02:06
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Pavane
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Peter Warlock
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  7. 7 III. Tordion 01:03
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Tordion
    Duration
    01:03
    Composer
    Peter Warlock
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  8. 8 IV. Bransles 02:03
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Bransles
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    Peter Warlock
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  9. 9 V. Pieds-en-l'air 02:26
    Track
    9
    Title
    V. Pieds-en-l'air
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Peter Warlock
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  10. 10 VI. Mattachins 00:58
    Track
    10
    Title
    VI. Mattachins
    Duration
    00:58
    Composer
    Peter Warlock
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  11. 11 No. 1. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring 07:06
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 1. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
    Duration
    07:06
    Composer
    Frederick Delius
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  12. 12 No. 2. Summer Night on the River 06:17
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 2. Summer Night on the River
    Duration
    06:17
    Composer
    Frederick Delius
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  13. 13 I. Jig 03:02
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Jig
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  14. 14 II. Ostinato 01:51
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Ostinato
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  15. 15 III. Intermezzo 03:43
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Intermezzo
    Duration
    03:43
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  16. 16 IV. Finale, "The Dargason" 03:17
    Track
    16
    Title
    IV. Finale, "The Dargason"
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes
  17. 17 Elegy, Op. 58 04:57
    Track
    17
    Title
    Elegy, Op. 58
    Duration
    04:57
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Wales Camerata
    Conductor
    Owain Arwel Hughes