German: Symphony No. 1 etc.

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This collection of Edward German's orchestral music – none of it duplicated from earlier sets – is perhaps generally less striking but all is warmly romantic and beautifully crafted music of... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 21st Oct 2005
Catalogue No: CDLX7156
Label: Dutton
Series: Epoch
Length: 77 minutes

German: Overture - The Tempter

Work length6:53

$1.00

$1.40

BBC Concert Orchestra

German: Prelude - Romeo and Juliet

Work length10:13

$1.50

$2.10

BBC Concert Orchestra

German: Hamlet - Symphonic Poem

Work length20:05

Album only

BBC Concert Orchestra

German: The Willow Song

Work length7:49

$1.50

$2.10

BBC Concert Orchestra

German: Symphony No.1 in E Minor

Work length32:12

$5.50

$7.70

BBC Concert Orchestra

I. Larghetto maestoso - Allegro con brio

Track length11:38

$2.00

$2.80

II. Andante sostenuto

Track length6:22

$1.00

$1.40

III. Menuetto grazioso

Track length4:59

$1.00

$1.40

IV. Allegro spiritoso - Larghetto maestoso

Track length9:13

$1.50

$2.10

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Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 24-25 May 2005

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2010

This collection of Edward German's orchestral music – none of it duplicated from earlier sets – is perhaps generally less striking but all is warmly romantic and beautifully crafted music of real grace and refinement.
Two items derive from German's theatre commissions of the 1890s – the Overture to TheTempter and the Romeo and Juliet Prelude, which contains an especially beautiful love theme for strings. The longest single movement is the Hamlet symphonic poem, written for the 1897 Birmingham Festival and further demonstrating German's command of orchestral resources, if inviting questionable comparisons with Tchaikovsky's tone-poem of a few years earlier. TheWillow Song was German's last work of any significance – a heartfelt outpouring for the Royal Academy of Music's centenary in 1922 but one that, at less than eight minutes, suggests a composer by then somewhat worked out. There are echoes of Tchaikovsky, too, as well as Dvorák and Parry in perhaps the major attraction here – the First Symphony, performed at the Crystal Palace in 1890 and never published for orchestra. Again it is full of arresting ideas and eminently tuneful, if never quite becoming an arresting entity.
John Wilson demonstrates an impressive feel for constructing larger forms. The result is a beautifully played and recorded CD that further fills out our knowledge of Britain's symphonic output before Elgar.

May 2006

…warmly romantic and beautifully crafted music of real grace and refinement. John Wilson has hitherto been featured on CD in generally lighter fare but here he demonstrates an impressive feel for constructing larger forms. The result is a beautifully played and recorded CD that further fills out our knowledge of Britain's symphonic output before Elgar.

German: Symphony No. 1 etc.

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