Elgar - Falstaff, Orchestral Songs, etc.
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHSA5188
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 27th October 2017
Contents
Works
Falstaff: Symphonic Study in C minor, op.68Grania and Diarmid, op.42: Funeral March
Grania and Diarmid, op.42: Incidental Music
Kindly do not SMOKE
Pleading, op.48 no.1
Song Cycle, op.59
The King's Way
The Pipes of Pan
The River, op.60 no.2
The Torch, op.60 no.1
The Wind at Dawn
Artists
Roderick Williams (baritone)BBC Philharmonic
Conductor
Andrew DavisWorks
Falstaff: Symphonic Study in C minor, op.68Grania and Diarmid, op.42: Funeral March
Grania and Diarmid, op.42: Incidental Music
Kindly do not SMOKE
Pleading, op.48 no.1
Song Cycle, op.59
The King's Way
The Pipes of Pan
The River, op.60 no.2
The Torch, op.60 no.1
The Wind at Dawn
Artists
Roderick Williams (baritone)BBC Philharmonic
Conductor
Andrew DavisAbout
Owing to its technical challenges and more complex harmonic language, the composer always had a high opinion of Falstaff, saying that he had enjoyed writing it ‘more than any other music I have ever composed and perhaps for that reason it may prove to be among my best efforts’. His earlier music for Grania and Diarmid pays tribute to the Irish legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne; the Funeral March is probably Elgar’s noblest creation, and echoes the popular Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
The various less well-known songs, given heroic interpretations by the baritone Roderick Williams OBE, span the multiple facets of Elgar’s style, from the stern and dramatic impressions of Op.60 to the satirical and impish jollity of ‘Kindly do not SMOKE’.
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