Pastoralism
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jazzy_daveMore morning music with a romanticised English pastoralism.
Arnold Bax - Tintagel
Tintagel is a vivid tonal impression of the castle-crowned cliff of Tintagel in Cornwall. Here the legends of King Arthur and the scenic grandeur of the Atlantic Ocean fired Bax's imagination into producing some of the most vivid sea music ever written.
Bax himself wrote that the music brought, "...thoughts of many passionate and tragic incidents in the tales of King Arthur and King Mark... and that the piece ends as it began, with a picture of the castle still proudly fronting the sea and wind of centuries"
This is a full-throated performance by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by David Lloyd-Jones. Celtic music, played by a Celtic ensemble. Stirring!
Frederick Delius - Brigg Fair, An English Rhapsody
Frederick Delius was introduced to the folk song "Brigg Fair" by his friend and fellow composer, Percy Grainger, an enthusiastic collector of traditional songs. Delius was so taken with the melody, and with Grainger's setting of it for solo voice and chorus, that he decided to write an extended orchestral rhapsody based on the song. The piece was first performed in 1907.
The pictures which accompany the music are all by British landscape painters working in the19th and early 20th centuries: Henry Parker (1858-1930), Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899), George Vicat Cole (1833-1893), Benjamin Williams Leader (1831-1923), Edward Wilkins Waite (1854-1924), Louise Rayner (1832-1924) and Albert Goodwin (1835-1932).
Enjoy
Arnold Bax - Tintagel
Tintagel is a vivid tonal impression of the castle-crowned cliff of Tintagel in Cornwall. Here the legends of King Arthur and the scenic grandeur of the Atlantic Ocean fired Bax's imagination into producing some of the most vivid sea music ever written.
Bax himself wrote that the music brought, "...thoughts of many passionate and tragic incidents in the tales of King Arthur and King Mark... and that the piece ends as it began, with a picture of the castle still proudly fronting the sea and wind of centuries"
This is a full-throated performance by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by David Lloyd-Jones. Celtic music, played by a Celtic ensemble. Stirring!
Frederick Delius - Brigg Fair, An English Rhapsody
Frederick Delius was introduced to the folk song "Brigg Fair" by his friend and fellow composer, Percy Grainger, an enthusiastic collector of traditional songs. Delius was so taken with the melody, and with Grainger's setting of it for solo voice and chorus, that he decided to write an extended orchestral rhapsody based on the song. The piece was first performed in 1907.
The pictures which accompany the music are all by British landscape painters working in the19th and early 20th centuries: Henry Parker (1858-1930), Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899), George Vicat Cole (1833-1893), Benjamin Williams Leader (1831-1923), Edward Wilkins Waite (1854-1924), Louise Rayner (1832-1924) and Albert Goodwin (1835-1932).
Enjoy
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