Practical Cats: An entertainment for speaker and orchestra / Madame Chrysanthame Ballet Suite / Medieval Diptych, for baritone & orchestra / etc
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ALAN RAWSTHORNE
Practical Cats: An entertainment for speaker and orchestra / Madame Chrysanthame Ballet Suite / Medieval Diptych, for baritone & orchestra / etc
Simon Callow (narrator) Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic / David Lloyd-Jones
[ Dutton Epoch / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 10 June 2008
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David Lloyd-Jones and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra are completely at home in Rawsthorne's repertoire, and in Practical Cats. Renowned English actor Simon Callow brings a wonderful life and character to T.S. Eliot's familiar words set against Rawsthorne's ever-inventive music.
In contrast baritone Jeremy Huw Williams presents the world premiere recording of the darkly brooding setting of medieval words, Medieval Diptych, hauntingly atmospheric and dramatic by turns. This nicely balanced programme, recorded in the sympathetic acoustic of the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool , also features the ebulliently witty overture Street Corner, the exotic suite from the ballet Madame Chrysanthème, and two further world premiere recordings - the Theme, Variations and Finale and the atmospheric Coronation Overture.
Tracks:
Street Corner Overture (1944)
Practical Cats: An entertainment for speaker and orchestra Madame Chrysanthème Ballet Suite
Theme, Variations & Finale (1967)
Medieval Diptych, for baritone & orchestra
Coronation Overture (1953)
