Orchestral Works connected with London
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Composer or Director: Edward Elgar, John (Nicholson) Ireland, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Label: ASV
Magazine Review Date: 7/1989
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 82
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDDCA634

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(A) London Overture |
John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer
John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Owain Arwel Hughes, Conductor Philharmonia Orchestra |
Symphony No. 2, '(A) London Symphony' |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Owain Arwel Hughes, Conductor Philharmonia Orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer |
Cockaigne, 'In London Town' |
Edward Elgar, Composer
Edward Elgar, Composer Owain Arwel Hughes, Conductor Philharmonia Orchestra |
Composer or Director: Edward Elgar, John (Nicholson) Ireland, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Label: ASV
Magazine Review Date: 7/1989
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ZCDCA634

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(A) London Overture |
John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer
John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Owain Arwel Hughes, Conductor Philharmonia Orchestra |
Symphony No. 2, '(A) London Symphony' |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Owain Arwel Hughes, Conductor Philharmonia Orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer |
Cockaigne, 'In London Town' |
Edward Elgar, Composer
Edward Elgar, Composer Owain Arwel Hughes, Conductor Philharmonia Orchestra |
Composer or Director: Edward Elgar, John (Nicholson) Ireland, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Label: ASV
Magazine Review Date: 7/1989
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: DCA634

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(A) London Overture |
John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer
John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Owain Arwel Hughes, Conductor Philharmonia Orchestra |
Symphony No. 2, '(A) London Symphony' |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Owain Arwel Hughes, Conductor Philharmonia Orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer |
Cockaigne, 'In London Town' |
Edward Elgar, Composer
Edward Elgar, Composer Owain Arwel Hughes, Conductor Philharmonia Orchestra |
Author:
Owain Arwel Hughes proves himself a sensitive interpreter of Vaughan Williams. This is as richly recommendable a performance as Haitink's (EMI). The high spirits of the first movement are well contrasted with the tragic import of the finale, with the two middle movements as intermezzo-like genre-pieces, both nocturnes. Yet the whole piece hangs together as a symphony, in many ways a Mahlerian view of the form, much as VW might have been surprised to find himself compared with his Austrian contemporary. But the use of snatches of popular music, the nostalgia for nature and the use of a march as a kind of funereal leitmotif are all Mahlerian procedures. Hughes's approach takes all this into consideration and the result is a most perceptive interpretation, more perceptive, I think, than Previn's latest for Telarc.
His Cockaigne, on the other hand, seems to go on forever. He draws out the nobilmente tune, over-indulges in rits and generally drains the work of some of its vitality by over-egging the pudding. But it's splendid to hear the organ part so well recorded and integrated into the texture. Ireland's overture is very well done. We ought to hear it more often.'
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