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Alwyn - Elizabethan Dances; Oboe Concerto; Aphrodite in Aulis ~ William Alwyn |
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Variations on Sellenger's Round
Composed by C Various
Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Jac van Steen
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Severn Bridge Variations
Composed by C Various
Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Jac van Steen
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Aldeburgh Variations
Composed by C Various
Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Jac van Steen
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Themes & Variations: three sets of variations by a range of British composers from William Walton to Alexander Goehr:
Themes & Variations: three sets of variations by a range of British composers from William Walton to Alexander Goehr:
Variations on an Elizabethan Theme, composed for the 1953 Aldeburgh Festival, is a set of seven variations on the 16th-century Sellenger’s Round, scored for string orchestra. Its plaintive melody – arranged by Imogen Holst, friend and supporter of the Festival's founder Benjamin Britten – is followed by variations by Arthur Oldham (a student of Britten’s) and Humphrey Searle (among whose compositions are scores for the 1963 horror film The Haunting and episodes of Dr Who), as well as Benjamin Britten himself, Lennox Berkeley and Michael Tippett. A scintillating finale is provided by William Walton.
The 1966 Variations on a Welsh Hymn Tune (the featured tune being Brant) were commissioned to celebrate the building of the Severn Bridge, and bring together three Welsh and three English composers: Malcolm Arnold’s contrapuntal opening is followed by variations from Grace Williams, Daniel Jones, Alun Hoddinott and Nicholas Maw. Michael Tippett’s powerful and complex contribution, never before recorded, brings the work to an impressive close.
The disc is completed by the 1987 Aldeburgh Festival Variations – a tribute to the earlier Aldeburgh set – on the popular medieval round, Sumer is icumen in. Oliver Knussen's opening, a glittering introduction and bucolic setting of the theme, is followed by variations from a succession of acclaimed composers – from Robin Holloway’s melancholy pastoral setting, and Judith Weir’s dancing, Scottish-tinged contribution, to the explosive dissonance of Robert Saxton’s variation, the uncharacteristically Elgarian nostalgia of Alexander Goehr's writing, and Colin Matthews’s clamorous moto perpetuo. David Bedford’s celebratory finale, with its tribute to Benjamin Britten, brings the work, and this disc, to a fitting close.
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