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IRELAND HICKOX - DOWNLAND SUITE CONCERTINO PASTORALE ORCH POEM CD

IRELAND HICKOX - DOWNLAND SUITE CONCERTINO PASTORALE ORCH POEM CD

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Artist:

IRELAND / HICKOX

Title:

DOWNLAND SUITE / CONCERTINO PASTORALE / ORCH POEM

Genre:

CLASSICAL / CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS

SKU:

095115937624

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4 - 8 Business Days

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SKU/Barcode: 095115937624

The music of John Ireland is as good as it gets for the generation of English composers who peaked in the years between the two World Wars. Compared with Ireland, Walton sounds too nervous, Holst sounds too tentative, and Vaughan Williams sounds too eccentric. Along with a great lyrical gift, Ireland had a powerful compositional personality and the masterful technique with which to express himself. Best of all, while Ireland was clearly an English composer writing English music, he was also a modernist writing modernist music. There's plenty of pastoralism, but Ireland's lines are lucid, his colors are clear, and his rhythms are clean. All of which makes Ireland the English composer to like for people who don't like English composer. This 1994 recording by Richard Hickox and the City of London Sinfonia presents one of Ireland's best-known works in a new arrangement, two of Ireland's lesser but still representative works, and a premiere recording of a reconstructed work. In Hickox and the Sintonia's heartfelt performances, the posthumous string orchestra arrangement of A Dowland Suite is rambunctious bucolic bliss, the very early Orchestral Poem is extravagantly derivative, the Concerto Pastorale for string orchestra is as close to morbid melancholy as Ireland ever got, and the two Symphonic Studies are massive, monumental, and monolithic and driven with unrelenting momentum. Chandos' sound starts big and just gets bigger.

1. A Downland Suite: I Prelude: Allegro Energico
2. A Downland Suite: Ii Elegy: Lento Espressivo
3. A Downland Suite: Iii Minuet: Allegretto Grazioso
4. A Downland Suite: Iv Rondo: Poco Allegro
5. Orchestral Poem: Orchestral Poem: Andante Andante Molto Moderato Allegro Giusto
6. Concertino Pastorale: I Eclogue: Sostenuto
7. Concertino Pastorale: Ii Threnody: Lento Espressivo
8. Concertino Pastorale: Iii Toccata: Allegro Molto Ma Non Troppo Presto
9. Two Symphonic Studies: I Fugue: Pesante
10. Two Symphonic Studies: Ii Toccata: Lento
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