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| 1. Violin Concerto: I. Allegro moderato |
| 2. Violin Concerto: II. Rondo: Vivace -- Alla valse burlesca |
| 3. Violin Concerto: III. Lento |
| 4. Lonley Waters |
| 5. Whythorne's Shadow |
| 6. Cello Concerto: I. Moderato |
| 7. Cello Concerto: II. Adagio |
| 8. Cello Concerto: III. Allegretto Deciso, Alla Marcia |
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent introduction to Moeran, but...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Moeran: Violin Concerto/Cello Concerto (Audio CD)
This disc is an excellent introduction to Moeran, from the exquisite Lonely Waters to the exuberant lyrical Violin Concerto, from the Elizabethan pastiche of Whythorne's Shadow to the brooding Cello Concerto.And yet almost all of these recordings have been improved upon elsewhere. The Violin Concerto played by Georgiadis on a (deleted) Lyrita LP is a much warmer rendition. The Cello Concerto only really came to life for me when I heard Paul Watkins' 2000 BBC recording, alas for broadcast only. Lonely Waters is presented without the vocal ending that the composer preferred (he wrote an instrumental ending for performances without a singer present). That said, these are good recordings of excellent music, and can more than satisfy - unless you've heard the others referred to here...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Intense, beautifully crafted work by underrated composer,
By AndrewC (Sudbury, Suffolk United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Moeran: Violin Concerto/Cello Concerto (Audio CD)
Anyone who wants a first taste of Moeran should buy this first. Moeran never pulled his punches, and the Cello concerto is a particularly poignant work that spoke of love and guilt in a very direct, bittersweet, way. All the works on this CD represent Moeran at his best, mixing phrases and ideas from the tradional music of Norfolk and Co. Kerry into a lyrical and expressive style that is instantly recognisable as Moeran's. Essential for anyone who likes British 'classical' music of the twentieth Century.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
As Pastorally Anglo-Irish As It Gets,
By Moldyoldie - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Moeran: Violin Concerto/Cello Concerto (Audio CD)
This is my introduction to E. J. Moeran (1894-1950) whom I first read about recently and whose music was described as being firmly entrenched in the "cowpat" school of twentieth century British music, a term derogatorally coined by English serialist composer Elisabeth Lutyens to describe the more idyllically inclined music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi, Hubert Parry, and the like. Yes, the music here is nothing if not evocative of British and Irish vistas abetted by frequent none-too-subtle allusions to inherently familiar folk melodies and rhythms. One can choose to either love this music for its simple summonings or be aloof to its seeming ubiquity and triteness; there's certainly nothing threatening nor overtly challenging to be heard.
The Violin Concerto of 1937 is probably the most attractive and substantive work here -- three varying movements traversing both a soberly Romantic and homespun musical landscape. Soloist Lydia Mordkovitch produces a somewhat roughhewn sonority, especially in the lower register, but still displays an appropriately sweet-sounding rumination bookending the folksy jauntiness found in the middle movement. In painting this beautiful and amiable picture, she's very well-balanced with the vividly recorded Ulster Orchestra led by Vernon Handley. Handley and the Ulster also perform the near contemporaneous Lonely Waters and Whythorne's Shadow, the latter's namesake being an Elizabethan-era composer -- together representing about fifteen minutes of flowing, lovely, and mostly innocuous musical buffer. The program ends with the Cello Concerto, a later work from around the end of World War II. Soloist Raphael Wallfisch is accompanied by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta led by Norman Del Mar in a recording originally released a few years previous to the above in the mid-1980s and compellingly appended here to make for this chock-full 2004 re-release. It's perhaps too easy to say this is musically more of the same as its earlier violin counterpart -- a beautiful and pastorally inspired rumination sandwiching and infused with some lilting Irish folk stylings, this time featuring the deeply rich sonority of Wallfisch's instrument. If, perchance, there's an actual "expression" to be heard in this score, it's mostly latent in this performance, but it melds well with this uniformly peaceable and amiable program -- one, with small effort, I happened to take delight in this particular morning. |
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