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William Wallace: Symphonic Poems
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Composer, scholar, painter, eye surgeon, William Wallace's Lisztian creations roar back to late Romantic life in these full-blooded performances. While Villon is the most striking, all are worthwhile.
William Wallace: Symphonic Poems
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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Composer, scholar, painter, eye surgeon, William Wallace's Lisztian creations roar back to late Romantic life in these full-blooded performances. While Villon is the most striking, all are worthwhile.
About
William Wallace was a classical scholar, a doctor and eye surgeon, a poet and dramatist, a writer on music and musicians, and the man described by Shaw as ‘a young Scotch composer with a very tender and sympathetic talent’. His orchestral compositions rank amongst them the earliest attempts at the genre of the symphonic poem to be made in the British Isles, his choice of subjects for these being at least as wide-ranging as his own interests and achievements.
Contents and tracklist
Work length20:45
I. Lento
Track length4:12
II. Misurato
Track length4:52
III. Andante con moto
Track length5:21
IV. Vivace
Track length6:20
Work length17:40
I. Allegro con anima
Track length1:13
II. Con brio 'Au moins sera de moy memoire'
Track length1:02
III. Più lento 'Où s'en va tout?'
Track length3:17
IV. Ballade des Dames du Temps jadis
Track length2:56
V. Ballade pour prier Nôtre Dame
Track length2:32
VI. Allegro
Track length0:56
VII. Allegretto 'Il n'est bon bec que de Paris'
Track length0:58
VIII. Largo 'Je plaings le temps de ma jeunesse'
Track length4:46
Work length15:46
Work length18:40
I. Largo sostenuto
Track length4:46
II. Vivace
Track length3:00
III. Andante
Track length3:04
IV. Con fuoco
Track length2:04
V. Meno allegro
Track length5:46
Awards and reviews
June 2014
Composer, scholar, painter, eye surgeon, William Wallace's Lisztian creations roar back to late Romantic life in these full-blooded performances. While Villon is the most striking, all are worthwhile.
Hyperion have once again triumphed in rescuing some inexplicably neglected Scottish music … it is simply unbelievable that the symphonic poems
presented here have had to wait till now to be recorded … once again Martyn Brabbins procures superbly assured and crafted performances from the
BBCSSO, and the recorded sound too is of the highest quality
