The Banks Of Green Willow

On this CD:

1. Banks of Green Willow, idyll for orchestra
Composed by George Butterworth
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Jeffrey Tate

2. English Idylls (2) for orchestra
Composed by George Butterworth
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Jeffrey Tate

3. Lonely Waters, for orchestra (& soprano ad lib)
Composed by E. J. Moeran
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Ann Murray
Conducted by Jeffrey Tate

4. Whythorne's Shadow, for orchestra
Composed by E. J. Moeran
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Jeffrey Tate

5. There Is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook for orchestra
Composed by Frank Bridge
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Jeffrey Tate

6. Pieces (3) for Small Orchestra
Composed by Arnold (Sir) Bax
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Jeffrey Tate

The Banks Of Green Willow, Music, Arnold Bax, Frank Bridge, George Butterworth, E. J. Moeran, Jeffrey Tate, Ann Murray, English Chamber Orchestra, 20th/21st Century Orchestral Music, Classical, Classical Music, Orchestral, Orchestral Music, Romantic Tone Poem/Symphonic Poem for Orchestra

Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (original 1913 version) / Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow - London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox
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Vaughan Williams At His Best

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Nostalgia and love ...

VW #2 - Hickox

Blowing the dust off excellence

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Tracks:

The Banks Of Green Willow
A London Symphony: I. Lento-Allegro risoluto
A London Symphony: II. Lento
A London Symphony: III. Scherzo (Nocturne): Allegro vivace-Andantino
A London Symphony: IV. Andante con moto-Maestoso alla marcia (quasilento)-Allegro-Andantino ma sostenuto-Tempo primo-Allegro-Lento-Epilogue: Andante sostenuto-Lento

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Penned between 1911 and 1913 and first heard in May 1914, Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony was dedicated to the memory of George Butterworth (whose ravishing 1913 idyll The Banks of Green Willow opens proceedings here). It's the original version that Richard Hickox and the LSO champion so eloquently on this sumptuous-sounding Chandos issue--and a very different beast it is from Vaughan Williams's final revision of 1933.

For starters, there's more than a quarter of an hour of extra material, much of it genuinely inspired and brimful of wondrous poetry. VW's scoring, too, was never more colorful, and it's surely not too fanciful to detect many a foreshadowing of Holst's The Planets. More significant, the work takes on a darker, tragic dimension (nowhere more potently, perhaps, than in the slow movement), and there's an astonishing passage in the expanded epilogue that even anticipates the opening movement of the 1921 Pastoral Symphony. In hindsight, VW made all the right decisions (the scherzo's second half, haunting though it is, pales next to the shuddering intensity of the revised coda), but no one should miss the opportunity to experience his original thoughts in all their epic sweep and tingling vitality. Utterly compulsive listening, then, and a "must buy" if ever I heard one. --Andrew Achenbach

Customer Reviews:

Vaughan Williams At His Best.......2007-07-03

Ever since I first heard "The Lark Ascending" by Vaughan Williams, I have remained in awe of the beauty and enjoyability of the composers music. This particular recording of Richard Hickox and the London Symphony is a must have for any Vaughan Williams lover. After first hearing the revised editions of the London Symphony, I must say that this original version is my favorite. The mysterious Strings that open up the first movement are so wonderfully athereal, leading us to the English fanfare/march of trumpets and percussion. Even though I have never been to London, this music paints such vivid pictures in my mind. Also, it should be noted that the chromatic climax in the first movement in which the brass descend sounds extremely similar to the Phantom of the Opera Theme by Andrew Lloyd-Weber. In fact, it is so similar that I am definate that Lloyd-Weber copied the idea for his own work. Vaughan Williams is the original, however, and it is very interesting to note the similarities between this first movement in particular and later orchestral works. The second movement is comparatively much darker. The third, like all of Vaughan Williams' Symphonies, is a Scherzo, similar in mood to his others. The finale begins with heart-wrenching chords, frightenning, yet they fill the listenner with fascination. Overall, this recording brings out every corner of Vaughan Williams brilliant orchestrations.

The Banks of the Green Willow is a much simpler work, though still thoroughly pleasurable. Butterworth died tragically young in World War One from a shot to the head. This piece is based on two folk songs, combined into this one movement to make an altogether charming first half, and a typical English-countryside finish.

Whether you have heard the music of Vaughan Williams or not, this Cd can be enjoyed by all. Also, the Butterworth is a good introduction to the composers other musical selections.

Interesting..........2006-07-19

Overall, I'm very glad that this recording was made. The "London Symphony" by Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of the most beutiful symphonies ever written. And to hear this work in original version is indeed a learning experience. However, I must say that Vaughan Williams was right to revise.
The first movement was left alone, but the latter movements in this original version have a lot extra music which the composer took out, and for good reason. Paticularly in the second movement, where some of this extra material is absolutely beutiful. But for me there is an inconsistant use of form. It seems to lose a sense of line and build, partly becuase it's a little too long, but also, there is no real peak that the movement develops into. The composer, realising this, decided to trim some of this fat in his revision, and comes up with a real thrilling climax that feels right as rain.
As far as the performance. Richard Hickox and the LSO perform elequently, even though it tends to be a little too slow at times. Nonetheless, the sound is first rate and Hickox certainly knows what he's doing.
As I said before, I'n happy this recording exists. It gives us a great insight into the process of composition and how a composer makes long term judgement calls as far as what to revise and what not revise. Vaughan Williams makes the right choices in the end.

Nostalgia and love ..........2005-11-30

... for all that is English. That is what comes to my mind when listening to this truly gorgeous music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. So very 'English' to my ears. A combination of typical elements: the beautiful and nostalgic - the pastoral, country elements -, combined with that typically melancholy - the Empire coming to an end -, sometimes even gothic feel - the city and the industry -, all of which I, as an outsider, often associate with modern England. For me, coming from Holland, this music breathes a strange, but at the same time familiar kind of exoticism. Just a small hop over the North Sea, but so very different ...
This performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Second Symphony by the LSO under Richard Hickox must surely be making the most of all that is English about this music, in that it makes the music glow with veritable nostalgia and sympathy, helped by what must certainly one of the greatest digital recordings ever.
Although this original 1913 version of the Second Symphony might miss the musical tautness of the 1936 score authorized by the composer, we here get twenty minutes more of often hauntingly beautiful music. This original 1913 version can then be seen more like a tone poem than a symphony, however much Ralph Vaughan Williams might have detested this notion. All in all an astoundingly beautiful musical document, gourgeously performed and recorded.

VW #2 - Hickox.......2005-10-30

This is a truly stunning performance in its original recent release.
My father new VW very well and attended the premiere of this work.
Listeners may wish to know that recently this recording has been re-issued in Europe and the UK in SACD.
It is hard to believe that the recorded sound could be improved upon - but the extra rear channel ambience provides a superb enhancement.
Antony J. Lepire
Berkeley, California

Blowing the dust off excellence.......2003-01-08

If you're even a casual RVW fan, this disc is a must-buy. This recording proves RVW's original version is brilliant and he should have left well enough alone. (Especially in regards to the final movement).

Tracks:

Fantasia On Greensleaves (Arr. Ralph Greaves): Fantasia On Greensleeves
The Lark Ascending
Engllish Folk Song Suite: I March: Seventeen Come Sunday
English Folk Song Suite: II Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy
English Folk Song Suite: III March: Folk Songs From Somerset
Serenade For Strings
Capriol Suite: I Basse-danse
Capriol Suite: II Pavane
Capriol Suite: III Tordion
Capriol Suite: IV Bransles
Capriol Suite: V Pieds-en-l'air
Capriol Suite: VI Mattachins (Sword Dance)
A Shropshire Lad
Two English Idylls
The Banks Of Green Willow

Tracks:

The Walk To The Paradise Garden
The Opera 'Hassan': Intermezzo and Serenade
A Song before Sunrise
On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring
Summer Night On The River
The Opera Koanga: La Calinda
Serenade For Strings, Op. 20: Allegro piacevole
Serenade For Strings, Op. 20: Larghetto
Serenade For Strings, Op. 20: Allegretto
Sospiri For Strings, Harp And Organ, Op.70
Elegy For Strings, Op.58
The Spanish Lady - Suite
Introduction And Allegro For String Orchestra And Quartet, Op.47

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A Most Beautiful Classical Recording!.......2000-02-22

This is one of my favorite classical albums. I find myself listening to it very frequently. Of particular enjoyment is disc two featuring beautiful and stirring works by Delius and Elgar. This is a most relaxing and refreshing recording that will wonderfully and continually soothe the mind and soul!

Bridge: Suite for Strings; Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow; Bantock: The Pierrot of the Minute

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Bridge & bantock Masterpieces.

Bridge: Suite for Strings; Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow; Bantock: The Pierrot of the Minute

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Tracks:

The Pierrot Of The Minute-Comedy Overture
Summer-Tone Poem For Orchestra
The Banks Of Green Willow-Idyll For Small Orchestra
There Is A Willow Grows Aslant A Brook-(Hamlet) Impression For Small Orchestra
Prelude
Intermezzo
Nocturne
Finale

Customer Reviews:

Bridge & bantock Masterpieces........2005-12-21

I am surprised to be the first to rate this CD. It contains some f the most beautiful English string and pastorale music in the repertoire. There Is A Willow Grows Aslant, Suite For Strings and Summer are arguably the most refreshingly beautiful pieces Bridge ever wrote. This is GORGEOUS music. And WILLOW is his Masterpiece. 9:19 of sweet, creative, and to the point beauty, that could never outstay it's welcome. The BIG surprise here though, is Bantock's Pierrot Of The Minute. A genuinely clever, jaunty and witty 11 minutes that suggests nothing of what most listeners came to expect from his Symphonies. Another Masterpiece that puts all its ideas in a perfect time frame. The Butterworth piece is similar to Bridge's Willow in style, but also excellent on it's own terms. I have never cared much for Del Mar, but here he is as good as he can be and The Bournemouth Sinfonietta sounds fantastic under his direction. All the right color, dynamics and sonics. The sound is close to Demonstration as most Chandos releases usually are. Clear, Warm and rich with the required depth. This is GREAT stuff for all fans of English pastoral and strings. A real sleeper..

The British Music Collection: George Butterworth

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Remembering George Butterworth
All the BUTTERWORTH that's fit to print...

The British Music Collection: George Butterworth

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Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

Six Songs From 'A Shropshire Lad': Loveliest Of Trees
Six Songs From 'A Shropshire Lad': When I Was One-And-Twenty
Six Songs From 'A Shropshire Lad': Look Not In My Eyes
Six Songs From 'A Shropshire Lad': Think No More, Lad
Six Songs From 'A Shropshire Lad': The Lads In Their Hundreds
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The Banks Of Green Willow - ASMF/Neville Marriner

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Remembering George Butterworth.......2006-08-04

For all the Anglophiles in music this fine sampling of the works of George Butterworth will be a welcome addition to the narrow margin of his works that remain in repertoire and in recordings. A contemporary of Gustav Holst and very much in the same vein as Frank Bridge and Ralph Vaughn Williams, this selection of works is another installment in The British Collection, a worthy and laudable effort to raise appreciation for the many composers form the British Isles that flavor our concert halls.

Oddly pairing both works for voice and piano with works for orchestra, Neville Marriner has none the less created a memorable concert here. Beginning with Butterworth's most famous piece, 'A Shropshire Lad, for voice & piano performed here by Benjamin Luxon with David Willison at the piano and following that with the less well known but equally fluid 'Bredon Hill and Other Songs' for voice & piano, comparisons are bound to be made with other recitals of these works (Bryn Terfel for one) and while Benjamin Luxon is a fine baritone, his voice is not in the sate it once enjoyed making the songs a bit frayed.

The joy of the recording is hearing Butterworth's own orchestral 'A Shropshire Lad', rhapsody for string orchestra in context with the song cycle. Neville Marriner conducts the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields with suave elegance. Also included in the orchestral portion is Butterworth's 'The Banks of Green Willow, idyll for orchestra in one of the most cohesive and atmospheric readings on record.

For this listener the surprise is the relatively rare 'Two English Idylls' which are not only finely composed but have solid thematic thoughts better developed than in much of Butterworth's writing. And Marriner and his forces offer a superb and subtle performance. It is worth the price of the CD! Grady Harp, August 06

All the BUTTERWORTH that's fit to print..........2006-07-17

In fact, this is all the Butterworth that's left to us in the world--period: these few art songs, and a couple 'o three orchestral pieces. He had just begun to compose thoroughly when he went off to Flanders and was slain on the battlefield in 1916. Prior to his embarkment, he destroyed all remaining fragments of his art: so, this is it!

Bryn Terfel does a better job with the songs, but this is still a nice collection.

The lyrical pieces recall an unique aesthetic of Edwardian England and the very end of the so-called "Long Nineteenth Century."

Farewell, alas!

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Perfect.......2004-08-13

This entire series of discs is really great...centered around a theme ("Book Lovers," "Lazy Afternoons," "When You're Alone,")each CD is full of beautifully done instrumentals that, interestingly enough, really do catch the spirit of the title. I particularly like this one--"for Book Lovers"--and read with it playing in the background. Could you find "better" performances or recordings of the selections? Sure. But for the convenience, quality, seclections and price, why should you? These are a terrific value, and a great way to start a classical music collection. Enjoy.

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The Spirit of England

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Overture Cockaigne - SPIRIT OF ENGLAND
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Suite From 'Love's Labours Lost': Introduction Allegro vigoroso - SPIRIT OF ENGLAND
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Suite From 'Love's Labours Lost': Quodlibet (Clowns): Vivo - SPIRIT OF ENGLAND
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Great British Orchestral Classics

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On Hearing The First Cuckoo in Spring - London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Tintagel - Ulster Orchestra
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Pomp And Circumstance March No.1 - Royal Scottish National Orchestra

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Ultimate Relaxation Collection

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Air on a G String [From Orchestral Suite 3, BWV 1068] - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
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Swan [From Carnival of the Animals] - Mike Goosens, Jascha Silberstein
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Largo from Keyboard Concerto No. 5, BMV 1056 - English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard
Vocalise No. 14, Op. 34 - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
Andante [From Piano Concerto No. 21, K467] - English Chamber Orchestra, Radu Lupu, Uri Segal
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Flower Duet [From Lakm- Dame Joan Sutherland
Sheep May Safely Graze [From Cantata, BWV 208] - Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
In Paradisum [From Requiem, Op. 48] - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Saint John's College Choir & Cambridge Choir, Stephen Cleobury
Clair de Lune [From Suite Bergamasque] - L'Orchestre de La Suisse romande
Internmezzo [From Carmen Suite No. 1] - Lamoureux Orchestra
Andantino [From Concerto for Flute and Harp in C Major, K. 299 - Academy of Ancient Music, Lisa Beznosiuk, Frances Kelly
Siciliano [From Concerto for Oboe and Strings in D Minor, BWV] - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Heinz Holliger
Romance No. 2 in F Major, Op. 50 - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Arthur Grumiaux
O Mio Babbino Caro [From Gianni Schicchi] - Orchestra Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Renata Tebaldi
Aria : Larghetto E Piano [From Concerto Grosso in B Minor, Op. 6 ...] - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Adagio [From Clarinet Concerto in a Major, K. 622] - Cleveland Orchestra, Franklin Cohen
Adagio for Strings - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Tracks:

Fantasia on Greensleeves - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, William Bennett
Two Aquarelles: No. 1 Ma Non Troppo - English Chamber Orchestra
Two Aquarelles: No. 2 Gaily But Not Quick - English Chamber Orchestra
Banks of Green Willow - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
My Bonny Boy [From "English Folk Song Suite"] - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Touch Her Soft Lips, And Part [From Henry V] - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Sarabande [From Holberg's Time, Op. 40] - Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Menuet [From le Tombeau de Couperin] - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ralph Gomberg
Rrie - Julian Lloyd Webber, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sicilienne [From Pell and Msande, Op. 80] - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Aquarium [From the Carnival of the Animals] - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Liebesleid [From Three Old Viennese Dances] - Joshua Bell, Paul Coker
Adagietto [From l'Arlenne Suite No. 1] - Orchestre de la Bastille
Meditation [from Tha - Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Christer Thorvaldsson
Adagio [From Serenade No. 10 in B Flat K361 "Gran Partita"] - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Corral Nocturne [From Rodeo] - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Adagio - I Musici

Tracks:

Romance [From Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K525 "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Prelude [From Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 - Misha Maisky
Andante [From String Quartet No. 17 in F Major, Op. 3 No. 5] - I Musici
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Julian Lloyd Webber, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Canon in D - I Musici
Largo, Ma Non Tanto [From Double Violin Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1043] - Festival Strings Lucerne, Zino Francescatti, Regis Pasquier
March [From Idomeneo] - Wiener Philharmoniker
En Bateu [From Petite Suite] - L'Orchestre de La Suisse romande
Italiana [From Ancient Airs] - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Intermezzo [From Cavalleria Rusticana] - National Philharmonic Orchestra
Humming Chorus [From Madama Butterfly] - BBC Concert Orchestra
Andante Cantabile [From String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11] - The New Symphony Orchestra of London
Fileuse [From Pell et Msande Op. 80] - L'Orchestre de La Suisse romande
Chanson de Matin, Op. 15 No. 2 - BBC Concert Orchestra
Dance of the Blessed Spirits [from Orfeo Ed Euridice] - Academy of Ancient Music
Tempo Di Valse [From Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22] - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Minrod (Variation No. 9) [From Enigma Variations, op. 36] - Chicago Symphony Orchestra