Variations for Orchestra (Improvisations) (with works by George Butterworth & Cyril Scott)

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ARNOLD BAX
Variations for Orchestra (Improvisations) (with works by George Butterworth & Cyril Scott)
Christopher Nickol (organ) Aleksei Kiseliov (cello) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates

[ Dutton Epoch SACD / Hybrid SACD ]

Release Date: Sunday 1 May 2016

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George Butterworth's Fantasia dates from the year of his death, 1916. Before being sent to fight in France he destroyed several manuscripts, but left intact some 93 bars of full score of the Fantasia from which conductor Martin Yates has realised and completed this lyrical and deeply moving performing edition. Aleksei Kiseliov is eloquent in his championship of Cyril Scott's The Melodist and the Nightingales, an atmospheric cello reverie, while Arnold Bax's earliest orchestral work, Variations for Orchestra (Improvisations), unheard for over a hundred years, is a gorgeously melodic score showing the young composer to be remarkably skilful in his handling of the orchestra.

Tracks:

Bax:
Variations for Orchestra (Improvisations)

Butterworth, G:
Fantasia for Orchestra
Concert version realised and completed by Martin Yates

Scott, C:
Poem 'The Melodist and the Nightingales' for cello and orchestra