Josef Holbrooke: Symphonic Poems

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Given a suitably chiaroscuro treatment, its passages of dark mystery and menace are lit up by shards of dancing light and borne unsettlingly along by mounting, suspenseful drama. Refusing gauche... — Classical Ear, 15th March 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Dec 2016
Catalogue No: 777636-2
Label: CPO
Length: 95 minutes

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Holbrooke: Auld Lang Syne - Variations for Full Orchestra Op. 60

Work length22:48

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Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt
Howard Griffiths

Theme. Andante espressivo

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Var. 1, J.H.

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Var. 2, F.B.

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Var. 3, A.B.

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Var. 4, C.T.

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Var. 5, W.W.

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Var. 6, B.D.

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Var. 7, E.S.

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Var. 8, R.W.

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Var. 9, E.E.

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Var. 10, F.D.

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Var. 11, J.S.

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Var. 12, F.C.N.

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Var. 13, S.H.

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Var. 14, H.B.

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Var. 15, C.F.

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Var. 16, C.S.

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Var. 17, R.S.

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Var. 18, G.M.

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Var. 19, J.H.F.

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Var. 20, G.B.

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Holbrooke: Violin Concerto ‘The Grasshopper’ (Violin Sonata No. 2), Op. 59

Work length54:28

Album only

Judith Ingolfsson
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt
Howard Griffiths

I. Allegro con molto fuoco

Track length26:20

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II. Adagio non troppo con molto espressione

Track length18:00

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III. Maestoso - Vivace giocoso

Track length10:08

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Holbrooke: Symphonic Poem No 1, Op. 25 "The Raven"

Work length18:00

$4.00

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Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt
Howard Griffiths

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When the symphonic poem The Raven after Edgar Allan Poe celebrated its premiere in London in March 1900, the critics showered hymns of praise on this work so rich in unique orchestral colours and on its young composer Josef Holbrooke. It brought him his breakthrough and firmly established his reputation as an innovative and original contemporary composer. There are certainly many settings of Poe’s poem, but Holbrooke was the first composer who did not merely set the text but used it as the poetic basis for his first »Poem for Orchestra.« Holbrooke’s idiom was the musical language of the late nineteenth century obliged to the primacy of expression, and he enriched it with his constant quest for new tonal effects. In his orchestral variations on the beloved Scottish folk song »Auld Lang Syne« he again displays his extraordinary gift for employing his absolutely inexhaustible inventive talent and fine feeling for harmony in order to endow simple song forms with subtle expressive variety. And his only violin concerto, The Grasshopper, radiates carefree lightness and is brimming with rhythmic wit – as the title itself suggests.

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Classical Ear 15th March 2017

Given a suitably chiaroscuro treatment, its passages of dark mystery and menace are lit up by shards of dancing light and borne unsettlingly along by mounting, suspenseful drama. Refusing gauche sentimentality, the vivid set of 21 variations on Auld Lang Syne is exquisitely done.

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