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  • Audio CD (1 Sep 2003)
  • SPARS Code: A-D
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: EMI Classics
  • ASIN: B0000AF1MK
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 94,007 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Sinfonia da Requiem Op. 20 (1976 Digital Remaster): I. Lacrymosa (Andante ben misurato) -London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn 9:01£1.89
Listen  2. Sinfonia da Requiem Op. 20 (1976 Digital Remaster): II. Dies irae (Allegro con fuoco) -London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn 5:07£0.69
Listen  3. Sinfonia da Requiem Op. 20 (1976 Digital Remaster): III. Requiem aeternam (Andante molto tranquillo)London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn 6:06£0.69
Listen  4. Four Sea Interludes Op. 33a (from Peter Grimes) (1976 Digital Remaster): I. Dawn (Lento e tranquillo)London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn 3:44£0.69
Listen  5. Four Sea Interludes Op. 33a (from Peter Grimes) (1976 Digital Remaster): II. Sunday Morning (Allegro spiritoso)London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn 3:47£0.69
Listen  6. Four Sea Interludes Op. 33a (from Peter Grimes) (1976 Digital Remaster): III. Moonlight (Andante comodo e rubato)London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn 4:23£0.69
Listen  7. Four Sea Interludes Op. 33a (from Peter Grimes) (1976 Digital Remaster): IV. Storm (Presto con fuoco)London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn 4:34£0.69
Listen  8. Passacaglia Op. 33b (from Peter Grimes) (1976 Digital Remaster)London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn 7:30£1.89
Listen  9. The Perfect Fool H150 (Op. 39) - Ballet music (2003 Digital Remaster): Andante -André Previn/London Symphony Orchestra0:58£0.69
Listen10. The Perfect Fool H150 (Op. 39) - Ballet music (2003 Digital Remaster): Dance of Spirits of Earth (Moderato - Andante) -André Previn/London Symphony Orchestra 3:39£0.69
Listen11. The Perfect Fool H150 (Op. 39) - Ballet music (2003 Digital Remaster): Dance of Spirits of Water (Allegretto)André Previn/London Symphony Orchestra 2:46£0.69
Listen12. The Perfect Fool H150 (Op. 39) - Ballet music (2003 Digital Remaster): Dance of Spirits of Fire (Allegro moderato)André Previn/London Symphony Orchestra 3:23£0.69
Listen13. Egdon Heath (Homage to Thomas Hardy) H172 (Op. 47) (2003 Digital Remaster)André Previn/London Symphony Orchestra14:40£2.89

On this CD:
  1. Sinfonia da Requiem
    Composed by Benjamin Britten
    Conducted by André Previn

  2. (4) Sea Interludes
    Composed by Benjamin Britten
    Conducted by André Previn

  3. (The) Perfect Fool
    Composed by Gustav Holst
    Conducted by André Previn

  4. Egdon Heath, 'Homage to Thomas Hardy'
    Composed by Gustav Holst
    Conducted by André Previn

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5.0 out of 5 stars ENGLAND, THEIR ENGLAND, 13 Nov 2003
By DAVID BRYSON (Glossop Derbyshire England) - See all my reviews
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Previn has a conspicuous penchant for 20th century English music, both the music I am myself enthusiastic about such as Britten and Walton and the kind for which my mania is rather muted such as Holst and Vaughan Williams. I was therefore expecting a lot of this disc and I have not been disappointed.

Britten did not always dislike Brahms, and even after he had gone off him in general he retained his admiration for the D minor concerto. For me, the start of the Sinfonia da Requiem should create the same kind of impact as the start of that mighty effort, and it absolutely does as Previn gives it. The peremptory call to attention, the glowering sense of hostility as well as tragedy, the lapse into uneasy quiet – this is the way I feel it should be. First impressions count as no other impressions do, and Previn had got me on his side right away. The rest was plain sailing, across a dark sea admittedly, and the power and the sadness of this great and probably still undervalued work are as strongly conveyed as I think I can ever remember.

East Anglia is a part of the country that I am particularly fond of, and Crabbe is a poet who gets through to me. There is something I find hypnotic about the peculiar ‘tramp tramp’ of Crabbe’s couplets at their best, so music that evokes that coast both directly and via its own poet is music that I start predisposed to. First impressions helped again, and in the first number ‘Dawn’ Previn’s tempo struck me as perfectly judged, with the ‘lento’ not too slow and the sense of drifting mist perfectly caught. The later extracts were pretty much ideally to my taste too, the contrasts in mood strong and effective but not overplayed, and the final grim passacaglia caught the mood as I imagine it powerfully indeed – Crabbe humanised but not sentimentalised.

Hardy’s Wessex , and Hardy’s novels, have always been a ‘dead zone’ in my own sensibility, and that sadly coincides with a lifelong inability to respond to the school of English music that includes Holst. I suppose I can be ‘objective’ about the Holst pieces here, but hardly in the best sense. They are obviously very well done, and Previn’s handling of Egdon Heath, more rhapsodic than say, Boult’s, is, I would guess, likely to win admirers among aficionados of the work. I can’t say how well it evokes that part of the country because the only places I know in Dorset are Bournemouth and Lyme Regis. I can however report that the playing of the LSO is admirable – in my view Previn worked marvels with them whatever battles that involved – and the recordings, made in 1975/6 and much admired in The Gramophone, are unexceptionable even if not quite outstanding by the highest up-to-date standards. There are not likely to be better accounts of any of this music for some time to come.

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