Simon Rattle - British Music (Box Set) (2009)

This new 11CD box set in the Simon Rattle Edition contains many favorites from the English repertory including Elgar%27s Engma Variations and Violin Concerto, Walton%27s Symphony 1, Holst%27s The Planets, and Vaughan Williams%27 On Wenlock Edge. This set compliments the Simon Rattle Edition Britten box set released last year. Fans of British 20th Century Classics and Simon Rattle must have both!
Composer: Sir Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir William Walton,
Gustav Holst, Malcolm Arnold, Oliver Knussen, Percy Aldridge Grainger
Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Thomas Ades, Nicholas Maw, Mark-Anthony Turnage
Performer: Nigel Kennedy, Truls Otterbech Mork, John Shirley-Quirk, Dame Janet Baker, John Mitchinson,
Thomas Hampson, Robert Tear, Thomas Allen, Julian Bream
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Orchestra/Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus,
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
CD1 - Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations, Grania & Diarmid, Falstaff Symphonic Study
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations Op36
1. Theme (Andante)
2. Variation I (L%27istesso tempo) "C.A.E."
3. Variation II (Allegro) "H.D.S.-P."
4. Variation III (Allegretto) "R.B.T."
5. Variation IV (Allegro di molto) "W.M.B."
6. Variation V (Moderato) "R.P.A."
7. Variation VI (Andantino) "Ysobel"
8. Variation VII (Presto) "Troyte"
9. Variation VIII (Allegretto) "W.N."
10. Variation IX (Adagio) "Nimrod"
11. Variation X (Intermezzo: Allegretto) "Dorabella"
12. Variation XI (Allegro di molto) "G.R.S."
13. Variation XII (Andante) "B.G.N."
14. Variation XIII (Romanza: Moderato) "* * *"
15. Variation XIV (Finale: Allegro Presto) "E.D.U."
Grania & Diarmid Op42
16. Incidental Music
17. Funeral March
Falstaff Symphonic Study Cm Op68
18. Falstaff & Prince Henry
19. Eastcheap Gadshill The Boars Head Revelry...
20. Dream Interlude
21. Falstaffs March The Return Through Glouce...
22. Interlude Gloucestershire Shallows Orchar...
23. King Henry vs Progress The Repudiation Of ...
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CD2 - Edward Elgar - Violin Concerto, Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Edward Elgar
Violin Concerto in B minor, op.61
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Allegro molto - Cadenza
Ralph Vaughan Williams
4. The Lark Ascending - Romance for Violin and Orchestra
Nigel Kennedy - violin
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CD3 - William Walton - Cello Concerto, Edward Elgar - The Dreams of Gerontius
William Walton
Cello Concerto
1. Moderato
2. Allegro appassionato
3. Lento - Allegro molto
Edward Elgar
The Dreams of Gerontius op. 38
Part 1
4. Prelude: Lento, mistico - Moderato...
5. Jesu, maria - I am near to death (Gerontius)
6. So pray for me ... Kyrie eleison ... Holy mary, pray for him (Gerontius, S...
7. Rouse thee, my fainting soul ... Be merciful (Gerontius, Chorus)
8. Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus (Gerontius)
9. I can non more (Gerontius)
10. Rescue him, O Lord (Chorus, Gerontius, Semi-chorus)
11. Novissima hora est (Gerontius)
12. Proficiscere, anima Christiana (Priest)
13. Go in the name of Angels (Chorus, Priest, Semin-chorus)
14. Go forth upon the journey (Priest, Chorus, Semi-chorus)
Lynn Harrell - cello
John Mitchinson - tenor
John Shirley-Quirk - bass-baritone
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CD4 - Edward Elgar - The Dreams of Gerontius, Pomp and Circumstance March
Edward Elgar
The Dreams of Gerontius op. 38
Part 2
1. Introduction: Andantino
2. I went to sleep (Soul of Gerontius)
3. Another marvel (Soul)
4. My work is done (Angel, Soul)
5. It is a member of that family (Soul, Angel)
6. But hark! Upon my senses (Soul)
7. Low-born clods of brute earth (Chorus)
8. Dispossessed, aside thrust (Chorus, Angel)
9. The mind bold and independent (Chorus)
10. I see not those false spirits (Soul)
11. There was a mortal (Angel)
12. Praise to the Holiest (Semi-chorus, Chorus, Angel)
13. The sound is like the rushing of the wind (Soul)
14. Glory to Him (Chorus, Semi-chorus)
15. They sing of thy approaching agony (Angel, Semi-chorus, Soul, Chorus)
16. But hark! A grand mysterious harmony (Soul)
17. And now on the threshold (Angel)
18. Praise to the Holiest (Chorus)
19. Thy judgment now is near (Angel, Soul)
20. Jesu! By that shuddering dread ( Angel of the Agony, Soul)
21. Be merciful, be gracious (Semi-chorus, Chorus)
22. Praise to His Name! (Angel)
23. Take me away (Soul)
24. Lord, Thou hast been our refuge (Chorus)
25. Softly and gently (Angel, Chorus, Semi-chorus)
Janet Baker - mezzo-soprano
John Mitchinson - tenor
John Shirley-Quirk - bass-baritone
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
26. Pomp and Circumstance March Op. 39 No. 4
Berliner Philharmoniker
CD5 - William Walton - Symphony No. 1, Belshazzar%27S Feast
William Walton
Symphony No. 1
1. Allegro Assai
2. Presto, Con Malizia
3. Andante Con Malinconia
4. Maestoso - Brioso Ed Ardentemente - Vivacissimo - Maestoso
Belshazzar%27S Feast
5. Thus Spake Isaiah (Maestoso)
6. Babylon Was A Great City (Quasi Recitativo)
7. Thus In Babylon, The Mighty City (Allegro Molot)
8. And In That Same Hour As They Feasted (Quasi Recitativo)
9. Then Sing Aloud To God Our Strength (Lento - Allegro Giocoso)
10. Then Sing Aloud To God Our Strength (Allegro)
Thomas Hampson - baritone
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CD6 - Gustav Holst - The Planets, Colin Matthews - Pluto, the Renewer
Gustav Holst
The Planets
1. Jupiter
2. Mars
3. Mercury
4. Neptune
5. Saturn
6. Uranus
7. Venus
Colin Matthews
8. Pluto, the Renewer
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker
CD7 - Ralph Vaughan Williams - On Wenlock Edge, Songs of Travel, Malcolm Arnold - Guitar Concerto, Oliver Knussen - Flourish with Fireworks
Ralph Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge
1. Wenlock Edge - 01 On Wenlock Edge
2. From far, from eve and morning
3. Is my tem ploughing
4. Oh, when I was in love with you
5. Bredon Hill
6. Clun
Songs of Travel
7. The Vagabond
8. Let beauty awake
9. The Roadside Fire
10. Youth and Love
11. In Dreams
12. The infinite shining heavens
13. Whither must I wander
14. Bright is the ring of words
15. I have trod the upward and the downward slope
Malcolm Arnold
Guitar Concerto
16. Allegro
17. Lento - Vivace - Lento
18. Con brio
Oliver Knussen
19. Flourish with Fireworks
Robert Tear - tenor
Thomas Allen - baritone
Julian Bream - guitar
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CD8 - Percy Grainger - In a Nutshell, Train Music, Lincolnshire Posy
Percy Grainger
In a Nutshell
1. Arrival Platform Humlet
2. %27Gay but Wistful%27 (Tune in a popular London style)
3. Pastoral
4. %27The Gum-Suckers%27 March
5. Train Music (1901)
6. Country Gardens: English Morris Dance Tune
7. La Vallee des cloches (Ravel, arr. Graingerу)
Lincolnshire Posy
8. Lisbon (Sailor%27s Song)
9. Horkstow Grange (The Miser and his Man - a local tragedy)
10. Rufford Park Poachers (Poaching Song)
11. The Brisk Young Sailor (who returned to wed his True L...
12. Lord Melbourne (War Song)
13. The Lost Lady Found (Dance Song)
14. Pagodes from %27Estampes%27 (Debussy, arr. Grainger)
15. The Warriors: Music to an imaginary ballet for orchestra and three pianos
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CD9 - Thomas Ades - Asyla, Nicholas Maw - Odyssey
Thomas Ades
1-4. Asyla op. 17
Nicholas Maw
5-7. Odyssey
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CD10 - Nicholas Maw - Odyssey
Nicholas Maw
1-3. Odyssey
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CD11 - Mark-Anrthony Turnage - Drowned Out, Kai for solo cello and ensemble, Momentum, Ceres
Mark-Anrthony Turnage
1. Drowned Out
2. Kai for solo cello and ensemble
3. Three Screaming Popes after Francis Bacon for large ochestra
4. Momentum
5. Ceres*
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
*Berliner Philharmoniker
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