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Boult conducts ...
Herbert Downes (viola), Desmond Bradley & Gillian Eastwood (violins), Albert Cayzer (viola) & Norman Jones (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
…sympathetic accounts… Butterworth's Two English Idylls, The Banks of Freen Willow and the sublime Shropshire Lad rhapsody. Tension levels rise markedly for exceptionally insightful readings...
Boult conducts ...
Herbert Downes (viola), Desmond Bradley & Gillian Eastwood (violins), Albert Cayzer (viola) & Norman Jones (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
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…sympathetic accounts… Butterworth's Two English Idylls, The Banks of Freen Willow and the sublime Shropshire Lad rhapsody. Tension levels rise markedly for exceptionally insightful readings...
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Contents and tracklist
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sir Adrian Boult
- Recorded: 14-15 June 1973
- Recording Venue: Walthamstow, United Kingdom
- Herbert Downes (viola)
- New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Sir Adrian Boult
- Herbert Downes (viola), Desmond Bradley (violin), Gillian Eastwood (violin), Albert Cayzer (viola), Norman Jones (cello)
- New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Sir Adrian Boult
- Herbert Downes (viola)
- New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Sir Adrian Boult
- Recorded: 18-19 September 1973
- Recording Venue: Walthamstow, United Kingdom
Awards and reviews
January 2008
…sympathetic accounts… Butterworth's Two English Idylls, The Banks of Freen Willow and the sublime Shropshire Lad rhapsody. Tension levels rise markedly for exceptionally insightful readings of Howells's Procession, Merry-Eye Elegy (an extraordinarily rapt display) and lively 1949 diptych Music for a Prince (these last three with the NPO). Warlock's An Old Song and Patrick Hadley's gorgeous One Morning in Spring (written in 1942 for Vaughan Williams's 70th birthday) complete the feast.
2011 edition
a welcome sample of the work of a highly discriminating composer. Merry-Eye offers some lively and attractive invention...Supreme performances and recording, with an outstanding coupling of Butterworth's items
