Delius Appalachia Song Of The High Hills
Bbc Symphony Chorus Orchestra Davis Sir Andre
Delius Appalachia Song Of The High Hills
Bbc Symphony Chorus Orchestra Davis Sir Andre
Catalogue # CHSA5088
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Delius:
\nAppalachia (Variations on an old slave song), Andrew Rupp\n(baritone)
\nA Song of the High Hills, Olivia Robinson (soprano) Christopher\nBowen (tenor)
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BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew\nDavis
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SACD
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This recording presents two comparatively rarely heard but\nstriking works by Frederick Delius, performed by the BBC Symphony\nOrchestra under Sir Andrew Davis with entirely idiomatic results.\nBoth works are prime examples of Delius’s highly individual and\nground-breaking use of voices in predominantly orchestral\nworks.
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“Both works, in their different ways, conjure up an\nevocative atmosphere, harnessing a mastery of orchestral and\nwordless vocal colour that Andrew Davis and his BBC forces\ntranslate into musical pictures, rich in texture and poignant in\nemotion.” April 2011, Daily Telegraph
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Review
Evan Meagher, Readings Hawthorn
This sort of music alwaysseems to evoke vast,sublime landscapes. Thetitles of these works aresuggestive; but there issomething about the waymelodies are subsumed into somethinggrander and less focused that drives this association.The BBC Symphony, under SirAndrew Davis, seems to understand thismusic well. These performances are verymuch about shimmering textures; throughwhich the warmth and tactility of variousinstrumental timbres is allowed to speak, butwithout breaking the vast unity of the bigorchestral sound.
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