Rubbra: Violin Concerto & Sinfonia Concertante

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What a treat to encounter Rubbra’s glorious Violin Concerto played by the work’s Budapest dedicatee Endre Wolf…A memorably unforced display it proves, too, plumbing genuine depths of rapt expression... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017 More…

Release Date: 4th Aug 2017
Catalogue No: REAM1134
Label: Lyrita
Length: 72 minutes

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Rubbra: Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 38

Work length29:47

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Edmund Rubbra
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Hugo Rignold

I. Fantasia. Lento con molto rubato - Allegro

Track length11:28

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II. Saltarella. Allegro vivace

Track length4:50

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III. Prelude & Fugue. Lento

Track length13:29

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Rubbra: Prelude & Fugue on a Theme by Cyril Scott, Op. 69

Work length4:43

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Edmund Rubbra

Scott, C: Consolation

Work length6:34

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Edmund Rubbra

Rubbra: Violin Concerto, Op. 103

Work length31:29

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Endre Wolf
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Schwarz

I. Allegro

Track length14:27

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II. Poema. Lento ma non troppo

Track length11:35

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III. Allegro giocoso

Track length5:27

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The Sinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra, Op.38, was written in 1934-1936 and revised and rescored in 1942-1943. The composer himself was the soloist in the premiere which took place in a Promenade concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult on 10 August 1943. Rubbra also performed it with the London

Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Malcolm Sargent on 4 July 1946 at the second Cheltenham Music Festival. The Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Cyril Scott for piano, Op.69, was composed in honour of Scott’s seventieth birthday in September 1949 and premiered by Margaret Good on 5 June 1950 in a BBC broadcast. It is based on three bars from the slow movement of Scott’s Piano Sonata no.1, Op.66. As part of the Northampton concert of Cyril Scott’s music which Rubbra organised in 1918, he programmed and performed four of Scott’s short solo piano works. Nearly fifty years later, he chose to perform another brief solo piano work by Scott to round off his BBC recital on 9 August 1967, Consolation. In his brief spoken introduction to the broadcast performance , Rubbra described this as ‘one of Scott’s maturest pieces’ written ‘at the height of his powers’ and characterised it as ‘a deeply felt ‘in memoriam’ written as a tribute to a close friend’. In 1958 he began work on the Violin Concerto, Op.103, finishing it in the summer of the following year. It was premiered at the Royal Festival Ha ll on 17 February 1960 when the soloist was Endré Wolf with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by its Principal Conductor at the time, Rudolf Schwarz. This first performance was relayed live and the BBC repeated the work in a Maida Vale performance three days later. A recording of that impressive second performance is presented here.

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Awards Issue 2017

What a treat to encounter Rubbra’s glorious Violin Concerto played by the work’s Budapest dedicatee Endre Wolf…A memorably unforced display it proves, too, plumbing genuine depths of rapt expression particularly in the ravishing central ‘Poema’…There’s more buried treasure in the shape of a spirited account of the imposing Sinfonia concertante for piano and orchestra…What a powerful work it is, too.

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