Foulds: Dynamic Triptych

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Peter Donohoe is a powerfully committed soloist, and there'll be moments in the second movement particularly which will have you catching your breath, when you realise that Foulds is already... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 15th August 2006 More…

Release Date: 10th Apr 2006
Catalogue No: 2564629992
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 60 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

June 2006

Editor's Choice

Foulds: Dynamic Triptych Op.88 : I Dynamic Mode

Work length8:27

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Peter Donohoe (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo

Foulds: Dynamic Triptych Op.88

Work length17:07

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Peter Donohoe (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo

II Dynamic Timbre

Track length11:44

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III Dynamic Rhythm

Track length5:23

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Foulds: Impressions of Time and Place Op.48 : I April - England

Work length8:08

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo

Foulds: Music-Pictures III Op.33

Work length19:09

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo

I The Ancient of Days

Track length5:45

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II Colombine

Track length3:30

Album only

III Old Greek Legend

Track length6:19

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IV The Tocsin

Track length3:35

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Foulds: Song of Ram Dass

Work length3:22

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo

Foulds: Keltic Suite Op.29 : II Lament

Work length4:42

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo

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15th August 2006

Peter Donohoe is a powerfully committed soloist, and there'll be moments in the second movement particularly which will have you catching your breath, when you realise that Foulds is already beginning to occupy an orchestral soundworld that still feels modern.

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Extraordinary how Fould's Dynamic Triptych opens, like an unstoppable current swirling around its seven-note mode, a tightly-woven study that goes to show how, given the right composer, confined harmony can work miracles.
The slow second movement is cold but gripping, with strings that slide every now and then on a queasy bed of quarter-tones, the use of piano and timps fitfully anticipating Bartók's Second Concerto. The finale anticipates Martinu in the way that rhythmic patterns meet or converge, occasionally even Prokofiev with some brilliant running passagework from Peter Donohoe, who gives a superb performance.
April – England is an earlier piece that was later revised, spontaneous and wide-eyed à la Copland to start with then quietening for a noble, slower section in the manner of a passacaglia. The Music-Pictures Group III is earlier still (1912), the first of them prophesying the Sibelius of Tapiola with a huge climax, the mostly playful 'Columbine' featuring yet more destabilising quartertones.
The 'Old Greek Legend' has something of an Elgarian tread about it and the lively 'Tocsin' finale ends just like the 'March to the Scaffold' from the Symphonie fantastique. In fact Berlioz is probably Foulds's nearest forebear; both men relished new sounds while holding fast to key aspects of tradition, and Foulds, like Berlioz, was a pretty stunning orchestrator.
As for the gorgeous 'Keltic Lament', how Stokowski would have basked in this amazing music! But, not having Mickey's magic wand to hand, Oramo and his Birmingham players will do very nicely. This is a really first-rate programme, a worthy follow-up to Oramo's first Foulds CD (see above) and a revealing window onto an unusual and innovative area of English music.

June 2006

…John Foulds… was… something of a musical prophet. Extraordinary how his Dynamic Triptych opens, like an unstoppable current swirling around its seven-note mode, a tightly-woven study that goes to show how, given the right composer, confined harmony can work miracles. ...Peter Donohoe... gives a superb performance. This is a really first-rate programme, a worthy follow-up to Oramo's first Foulds CD (A/04) and a revealing window onto an unusual and innovative area of English music.

Foulds: Dynamic Triptych

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