Robin Milford: Fishing by Moonlight op.96a für Klavier & Streicher (CD)

Robin Milford (1903-1959)

Julian Milford, Carys Lane, Julian Sperry, Guildhall Strings, Richard Salter

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+Miniature Concerto op. 35 für Streicher; Elegiac Meditation op. 83 für Viola & Streicher; 2 Orchesterzwischenspiele op. 19e für Flöte, Klavier, Streicher; Go, little Book-Suite op. 18 für Flöte, Sopran, Streicher; Elegy for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch op. 50 für Streicher; Interlude für Flöte & Streicher op. 69a; Festival Suite op. 97 für Streicher

Künstler:: Julian Milford, Carys Lane, Julian Sperry, Guildhall Strings, Richard Salter
Label:: Hyperion
Aufnahmejahr ca.:: 2003
UPC/EAN:: 0034571174440
Erscheinungstermin:: 16.8.2004

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Robin Milford is one of those distinctive English composers who proliferated between the wars, but whose reputation suffered in the face of the avant garde establishment in vogue during the 1950s and ›60s. Milford composed a range of music, from short practical works for children or amateurs to large-scale works including oratorios, an opera and a symphony.

This delightful disc presents Milford's music at its most quintessential and endearing. During the war Milford lost his six-year-old son to a road accident, a shattering personal catastrophe that blighted the remaining eighteen years of his life. Milford's idiom deepened and matured, and his ability to distil a mood or atmosphere into surprisingly simplelooking textures is his most rewarding trait. The music on this disc ranges from the soaring intensity of the Elegiac Meditation for viola and string orchestra of 1946–7 (a meditation on the losses of six years of war, or perhaps Milford was thinking of his dead son Barnaby), to the spirited and easy-going Festival Suite, written in 1950 to mark the Festival of Britain the following year. Milford's most famous work, Fishing by Moonlight, opens the disc, and is ravishingly performed by Guildhall Strings, with the composer's grand-nephew Julian Milford at the piano.

Once again, Guildhall Strings perform unduly neglected British music with refinement and a rare sense of shared enjoyment.

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»This is music for an English summer evening, with a glass of wine to hand – rewarding in its unpretentious, melodious, nicely crafted way; especially when played with sympathy and elegance by Robert Salter and the excellent Guildhall Strings and so naturally balanced and recorded by Andrew Keener. Don't miss it« (Gramophone)

»The performances by Guildhall Strings are energetic and precise. Though a relatively small ensemble of 11 strings, they possess a Protean ability to convey a much plusher sound as required … Dare we hope this CD will mark the beginning of a break for Milford? He's long overdue one« (Fanfare, USA)

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Fishing by moonlight op. 96a (für Klavier und Streicher): Andante espressivo

Miniature concerto G-Dur op. 35 (für Streichorchester)

2 1. Allegro
3 2. Adagio
4 3. Allegro vivace

5 Elegiac meditation op. 83 (für Viola und Streichorchester): Grave - Moderato (agitato) - Andantino semplice

Two orchestral interludes op. 19e (für Flöte, Streicher und Klavier)

6 Mr. John Peel passes by: Briskly
7 Mr. Ben Jonson's pleasure: At a leisurely pace

Suite op. 18 "Go, little book" (für Flöte, Sopran und Streicher)

8 1. Introduction: Allegro vivace
9 2. Thy garden: Andante
10 3. Meat in thy hall: Tempo di menuetto (In strict time throughout)
11 4. Thy bin of wine: Adagio - Allegro
12 5. Thy wit: Andante con moto
13 6. Thy house and lawns: Adagio
14 7. Thy living river: Moderato
15 8. Thy nightingale: Con moto

16 Elegy for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch op. 50 (für Streichorchester): Lento - Allegro vivace
17 Interludium für Flöte und Streicher op. 69a: Poco lento