Sir Donald Tovey: Symphony in D, Op. 32; The Bride of Dionysus - Prelude_音乐专辑
Sir Donald Tovey: Symphony in D, Op. 32; The Bride of Dionysus - Prelude
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2006-06-13
唱片数: 1
出版者: Toccata
条形码: 5060113440334
专辑简介
Sir Donald Francis Tovey (1875–1940) has long been known as one of the finest writers on music in English – but he saw himself primarily as a composer. His powerful and ambitious Symphony, written in 1913, has its stylistic roots in Brahms and Bruckner, and more distantly in Schumann, but Tovey was also open to contemporary developments: the harmonic procedures occasionally invoke Reger, the adventurous use of orchestral color suggests Mahler and Nielsen, and the scale – it is almost an hour in length – casts the work as a mighty cousin to Elgar’s two symphonies, finished not long before. This is its first recording since Tovey himself conducted a BBC broadcast performance in 1937. The disc opens with the first recording of the gentle, noble Prelude to Tovey’s only opera, The Bride of Dionysus, begun in 1907 and completed in 1918. British conductor George Vass is artistic director of the Regent Sinfonia of London. He has guest conducted frequently, including! the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, the London Mozart Players, and, as here, the Malm? Opera Orchestra (Sweden). Maestro Vass’s recent recordings have received enthusiastic reviews in Gramophone and elsewhere. His album of Stephen Dodgson works was named a Gramophone Editor’s Choice in March 2003 and hailed as "a landmark recording".
曲目
IV Allegro con moto energico
