Tippett: Ritual Dances & Piano Concerto

This is a highly desirable budget-priced Naxos release of two of the late Sir Michael Tippett's most well-loved works. The Ritual Dances adds up to a sizeable chunk of his first opera, the Midsummer... — Birmingham Post More…

Catalogue No: 8553591
Label: Naxos
Length: 62 minutes

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Excerpt, Tippett: Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage

Work length24:53

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
George Hurst
Recorded: 9-10 October 1995
Recording Venue: Govan Town Hall, Glasgow

Tippett: Piano Concerto

Work length37:38

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Benjamin Frith (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
George Hurst
Recorded: 9-10 October 1995
Recording Venue: Govan Town Hall, Glasgow

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length18:10

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II. Molto lente e tranquillo

Track length10:16

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III. Vivace

Track length9:12

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Birmingham Post

This is a highly desirable budget-priced Naxos release of two of the late Sir Michael Tippett's most well-loved works. The Ritual Dances adds up to a sizeable chunk of his first opera, the Midsummer Marriage, full of resonances of the countryside and the seasons, with darker overtones of birth, life and death (yes, almost a Rite of Spring, and almost as long). Their performance here from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under George Hurst is thrusting and colourful, with some wonderful woodwind solos. Breathing the same luminous, magical soundworld is Tippett's Piano Concerto of a few years later. Soloist in this finely-detailed, gently glowing account is Benjamin Frith.

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