Charles Villiers Stanford: Symphonien Nr.2 & 5 (CD)

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

David Lloyd-Jones, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

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Artists:: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 2006
Item number:: 7186406
UPC/EAN:: 0747313028979
Release date:: 1.10.2007

Of the British composers to have emerged immediately before Elgar, the most significant were Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. Central to Stanford's achievement are the seven symphonies covering the greater part of his career. Although they remain well within the stylistic orbit of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms, these accomplished works are marked by resourceful and often subtle orchestration. Symphony No. 2, 'Elegiac', completed in 1880, seems to have no overt elegiac intent, although it is prefaced by a quotation from Tennyson's In Memoriam. Symphony No. 5 was inspired by Milton's poems L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, lines from which are included in the score, and reprinted in the booklet accompanying this recording.

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Symphony No. 2 in D minor, "Elegiac": I. Allegro appassionato
2 Symphony No. 2 in D minor, "Elegiac": II. Lento espressivo
3 Symphony No. 2 in D minor, "Elegiac": III. Scherzo: Allegro con fuoco
4 Symphony No. 2 in D minor, "Elegiac": IV. Adagio - Allegro
5 Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 56, "L'Allegro ed il Pensieroso": I. Allegro moderato
6 Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 56, "L'Allegro ed il Pensieroso": II. Allegretto grazioso
7 Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 56, "L'Allegro ed il Pensieroso": III. Andante molto tranquillo
8 Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 56, "L'Allegro ed il Pensieroso": IV. Allegro molto