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Holbrooke / Ingolfsson / Griffiths - Josef Holbrooke: Violin Concerto / The Raven / Auld Lang Syne [CD]

Holbrooke / Ingolfsson / Griffiths - Josef Holbrooke: Violin Concerto / The Raven / Auld Lang Syne [CD]

Release Date: /// Cpo Records

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When the symphonic poem The Raven after Edgar Allan Poe celebrated it's premiere in London in March, 1900, the critics showered hymns of praise on his work so rich in unique orchestral colors and on it's 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.

Tracklist:

  1. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Theme: Andante Espressivo
  2. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 1
  3. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 2
  4. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 3
  5. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 4
  6. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 5
  7. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 6
  8. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 7
  9. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 8
  10. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 9
  11. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 10
  12. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 11
  13. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 12
  14. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 13
  15. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 14
  16. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 15
  17. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 16
  18. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 17
  19. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 18
  20. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 19
  21. Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op. 60: Variation 20
  22. Violin Concerto In F Major, Op. 59 "The Grasshopper": I. Allegro Con Molto Fuoco
  23. Violin Concerto In F Major, Op. 59 "The Grasshopper": II. Adagio Non Troppo Con Molto Espressione
  24. Violin Concerto In F Major, Op. 59 "The Grasshopper": III. Maestoso - Vivace Giocose
  25. The Raven, Op. 25

UPC: 761203763627
Label: CPO RECORDS
Release Date: 11.18.16
Format: CD

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