Boughton: Aylesbury Games & Concertos

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Catalogue No: CDA67185
Label: Hyperion
Length: 76 minutes

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Boughton: Three Folk Dances

Work length5:56

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New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp

I. Hornpipe: Rollicking, but not too fast

Track length1:47

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II. The weary wave o' Tyne: Slow and sad

Track length2:56

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III. Culloden 'A country dance': Quick and merry

Track length1:13

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Boughton: Aylesbury Games

Work length22:37

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New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp

I. Tempo giusto

Track length6:49

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II. Allegro

Track length8:23

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III. Allegro moderato

Track length7:25

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Boughton: Concerto for flute and strings in D major

Work length15:36

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Emily Beynon (flute)
New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp

I. Allegro

Track length7:21

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II. Adagio

Track length3:51

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III. Allegro molto

Track length4:24

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Boughton: Concerto for String Orchestra

Work length32:04

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New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp

I. Allegro risoluto

Track length10:45

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II. Scherzo: Allegro molto

Track length5:42

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III. Andante espressivo

Track length8:31

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IV. Rondo: Allegro marcato

Track length7:06

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This world-premiere recording demonstrates the versatility of the English composer who for too long has been associated only with The Immortal Hour. Although there is this association with Boughton, it was as a composer of large-scale choral and orchestral works that he first drew attention to himself in the early years of the twentieth century, and it was to orchestral music that he returned in the 1920's when circumstances forced him to abandon is operatic experiments. The Flute Concerto is wonderfully performed by the young flautist Emily Beynonmost recently heard on CDA67089, John McCabe's Flute Concerto. The Concerto for String Orchestra was never published and remained untouched from 1937 until its premiere in 1997 (the players for whom it was written found it too demanding and it took until 1997 when the Bournemouth Sinfonietta gave it its first performance). It is a wonderful piece which has been likened to the great works for string orchestra by Elgar and Vaughan Williams. Aylesbury Games had produced a similar reaction from the dedicatees (the orchestra of AylesburyBoughton's native town) and although it was composed in 1952 it took until 1978 for the orchestra to tackle a first performance. Sadly, Boughton therefore never heard it played.

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