Moeran: Violin Concerto/Cello Concerto

On this CD:

1. Concerto for violin & orchestra
Composed by E. J. Moeran
Performed by Lydia Mordkovitch
Conducted by Vernon Handley

2. Lonely Waters, for orchestra (& soprano ad lib)
Composed by E. J. Moeran

Conducted by Vernon Handley

3. Whythorne's Shadow, for orchestra
Composed by E. J. Moeran

Conducted by Vernon Handley

4. Concerto for cello & orchestra in B minor
Composed by E. J. Moeran
Performed by Raphael Wallfisch
Conducted by Norman del Mar

Moeran: Violin Concerto/Cello Concerto, Music, Raphael Wallfisch, Lydia Mortkovitch, Vernon Handley, Norman del Mar, E.J. Moeren, 20th/21st Century Orchestral Music, Cello Concerto, Classical, Classical Music, Concerto, Orchestral, Orchestral Music, Violin Concerto
Moeran: Violin Concerto; Lonely Waters; Whythorne's Shadow; Cello Concerto
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  • very good CD
 Moeran: Violin Concerto; Lonely Waters; Whythorne's Shadow; Cello Concerto

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Similar Items:
  1. Morean: Rhapsodies Nos.1 & 2; In the Mountain Country; etc.
  2. Moeran: Symphony in G minor; Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra; Overture for a Masque
  3. Moeran: String Quartets
  4. Symphony in G Minor
  5. Bliss: Cello Concerto; Music for Strings

ASIN: B00013BOF6
Release Date: 2004-02-24

Tracks:

  1. I. Allegro Moderato - Lydia Mordkovitch
  2. II. Rondo. Vivace - Alla Valse Burlesca - Lydia Mordkovitch
  3. III. Lento - Lydia Mordkovitch
  4. Lonely Waters For Orchestra - Vernon Handley
  5. Whythorne's Shadow For Orchestra - Vernon Handley
  6. I. Moderato - Raphael Wallfisch
  7. II. Adagio - Raphael Wallfisch
  8. III. Allegretto Deciso, Alla Marcia - Raphael Wallfisch

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars very good CD.......2005-08-23

I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of this recording. Moeran could be classified as a pastoralist or perhaps a "late romantic". He wrote relatively little and to me his music sometimes lacks internal cohesion. I bought this mainly to hear the two concertos and have found them to be excellent. The violin concerto contains some beautiful moments but at times, particularly in its concluding movement, the line of his thinking is a bit hard to follow. The solo passages make up for it.
The cello concerto is in my opinion as good as any other more well-known works (Dvorak, Elgar etc.) and contains more interesting orchestral colors. The two shorter works were less interesting. This recording has an ideal balance between soloist and orchestra and a great overall sound. Both soloists are great as well.
E. J. Moeran: Violin Concerto; Fantasy Quartet; Serenade in G
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  • Like a Country Fiddler - Sammons in Moeran's Concerto
 E. J. Moeran: Violin Concerto; Fantasy Quartet; Serenade in G

Manufacturer: Symposium
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ASIN: B00000IO6I
Release Date: 1999-04-20

Tracks:

  1. Con: Allegro Moderato - Albert Sammons
  2. Con: Rondo - Vivace - Albert Sammons
  3. Con: Lento - Albert Sammons
  4. Announcement - Live Performances
  5. Fant Qt - Leon Goossens/Carter Str Tio
  6. Announcement - Live Performances
  7. Announcement - Live Performances
  8. Ser in G: Prologue
  9. Ser in G: Intermezzo
  10. Ser in G: Air
  11. Ser in G: Gallop
  12. Ser in G: Minuet
  13. Ser in G: Forlando
  14. Ser in G: Rigadoon - Epilogue
  15. Ser in G: Rigadoon - Epilogue
  16. Announcement - Live Performances

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Like a Country Fiddler - Sammons in Moeran's Concerto.......2001-06-01

Edward John Moeran (1894-1950) - "Jack," to his friends - owed something to Frederick Delius and something again to the "Folk-Song" school of English composers, as most ably represented by Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Moeran's two works of the early 1930s, "Lonely Waters" and "Whythorne's Shadow," belong in a genre with Holst's "Somerset Rhapsody" and Vaughan Williams' "Norfolk Rhapsody." Country tunes and Elizabethan part-song contribute equally to the mixture. As Moeran matured, he acquired the confidence to tackle larger forms, as evidence by the three progressively more ambitious Rhapsodies (1922, 1924, 1943). The last one is a substantial one-movement concerto for piano and orchestra. A breakthrough came with the Symphony in G-Minor (begun in 1924 but only completed in 1937) followed by the three-movement Violin Concerto (1937-41), a beautiful essay of dual English and Irish provenance, that sandwiches a rapid central movement between two slow ones. Unlike the Symphony, the Concerto did not enjoy a commercial recording in its composer's lifetime. (Barbirolli urged it to Decca, but the project failed.) In the stereo-era, however, this work has incarnated twice, once on Lyrita, with John Georgiades as soloist and Vernon Handley leading the London Symphony, and once on Chandos, with Lydia Mordkovitch as soloist and Vernon Handley again, this time leading the Ulster Orchestra. The Symposium disc gives us a 1946 BBC broadcast performance of the Violin Concerto preserved on air-check platters now released for the first time. Albert Sammons takes the solo role; he was a prominent violinist on the British scene in the middle of the century. Sir Adrian Boult leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra, playing in a Norwich locale. Just as the 1942 recording of the Symphony trumps the later entries, so too does this archival registration of the Concerto take the laurels from the competition. Not, of course, in virtue of its sound. This recording, registered off-air privately by Moeran's friend Lionel Hill, must sometimes fight through abraded surfaces, but the performance triumphs even so. Sammons reads the solo part brilliantly, finding the precise formula in the two outer movements. Frank Howes once wrote of this work that it boasts "none of the ususal rhetoric... Much of the beauty [he says] consists in the interplay of the solo violin with the separate elements of the orchestra." The whole is "gently reflective." Both Georgiades and Mordkovitch apply a tad too much muscle in the flanking slow panels; Sammons understands the requirement for a gentler, more nuanced, approach, which he delivers. In the central Rondo, on the other hand, he exercises a contrasting vigor. Sometimes he sounds like a country fiddler from County Kerry, where the composer wrote the score. Moeran believed that Sammons was "the" soloist for his Concerto, and this document makes the case. It might be a prejudice, but the older acoustic seems to fit this nostalgia-laden music better than the contemporary, in-your-ear digital sound. Symposium also gives us Moeran's Fantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings (1947), in a performance featuring Eugene Goossens, and the Serenade in G, (1948) performed under Basil Cameron. The Serenade, like the Concerto, seems to be a privately dubbed off-air recording on acetates, which do constrict the sound in the loud passages. Never mind. It's the gutsy performance that counts. Basil Cameron was an important British conductor. He gave premières of two Bax symphonies and pioneered in the field of cinema soundtracks. (He led the studio-sessions of Arthur Bliss's music for the Wells-Korda film "Things to Come" [1936].) We should gratefully welcome this record of his more traditional concert activity. Cameron performs the complete Serenade, including an Intermezzo and a Forlane not published with the score and not heard in later recordings. Four BBC annoucements ("We will now hear..." or "We have just heard...") add to the archival character of the CD. The notes, by Mr. Hill, inform generously. All in all, Symposium gives us a worthy tribute to the least celebrated of significant mid-century British composers.
Centenary Collection
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    3. Saint Nicolas: 2. The Birth Of Nicolas - Robert Tear/Bruce Russell/Andrew Davis/Ian Hare
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    11. Sym No.5 In D: III. Romanza (Excerpt) - Philharmonia Orch/Sir John Barbirolli
    12. Blest Pair Of Sirens (Opening) - London Phil Chr
    13. Checkmate (Ballet Ste): V. Ceremony Of The Red Bishops - Sinf Of London/Sir Arthur Bliss
    14. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 2: In Dreams I've Built Myself Some Kindlier Home (Opening) - Sir Peter Pears
    15. Vn Con: II. Slower (Exc) - Yehudi Menuhin
    16. The Planets: 4. Jupiter (Exc) - Toronto SO/Andrew Davis
    17. Loch Lomond - Ian Partridge
    18. Canadian Carnival (Exc) - CBSO/Sir Simon Rattle
    19. At The Boar's Head: We Two Saw You Four... (Opening) - Philip Langridge/Michael George/John Tomlinson
    20. Divertimento On 'Sellinger's Round:' III. Presto - ASMF/Sir Neville Marriner
    21. Greater Love Hath No Man (Conclusion) - Chr Of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
    22. English Dance No.5, Op.33 No.1 - Philharmonia Orch/Robert Irving
    23. On Wenlock Edge: 2. From Far, From Eve And Morning - Ian Partridge
    24. Sinfonietta: I. Allegro Con Brio (Exc) - Northern Sinf Of England/Richard Hickox
    25. Mater Ora Fillum (Opening) - Chr Of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
    26. Violin Son: II. Vars (Var.6: Scherzando) - Yehudi Menuhin/Louis Kentner
    27. Vc Con in D: II. Andante Espressivo (Opening) - Julian Lloyd Webber
    28. Three Screaming Popes (Conclusion) - CBSO/Sir Simon Rattle
    29. Con, Op.104: III. Allegro (Exc) - Phyllis Sellick/Cyril Smith
    30. The Young Person's Guide To The Orch Op.34: Fugue (Allegro Molto) - CBSO/Sir Simon Rattle
    31. Str Qt in e, Op.83: II. Piacevole (Conclusion) - Chilingirian Str Qt
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    Moeran: Violin Concerto/Cello Concerto
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      		Moeran: Violin Concerto/Cello Concerto
      Raphael Wallfisch , Lydia Mortkovitch , Vernon Handley , Norman del Mar , and E.J. Moeren
      Manufacturer: Chandos
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B000000ABU
      Release Date: 1998-02-17

      Tracks:

      1. Violin Concerto: I. Allegro moderato
      2. Violin Concerto: II. Rondo: Vivace -- Alla valse burlesca
      3. Violin Concerto: III. Lento
      4. Lonley Waters
      5. Whythorne's Shadow
      6. Cello Concerto: I. Moderato
      7. Cello Concerto: II. Adagio
      8. Cello Concerto: III. Allegretto Deciso, Alla Marcia

      Music Track:

      1. Moon Rise
      2. Mozart: Concerto for clarinet in A; Concerto for flute & harp in C
      3. Narcis Casanoves (1747-1799): Un Noël Catalan (A Catalan Christmas) - François Espinasse / Maîtrise de Radio France / La Simphonie du Marais / Toni Ramon
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      5. New Year's Concert 2000
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      8. Otto Olsson Organ Music Vol. 1: Gregorian Pieces
      9. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Laudate Pueri Dominum
      10. Relax to the Classics, Vol. 2

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