Ernest John Moeran: Cello Concerto, Serenade, Lonely Waters, Whythorne Shadow

Klasyczna Muzyka Symfoniczna
premiera polska: 2013-04-09
kontynent: Europa
opakowanie: Jewelcaseowe etui
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Editor's info:
The Cello Concerto is one of Anglo-Irish composer E. J. Moeran’s most important works. Composed in 1945, its deft scoring and memorable melodic material mark it as a work of his maturity. At its heart is the raptly lyrical and profoundly felt slow movement but the whole concerto reflects the singing qualities of the solo instrument. The much-admired Serenade is heard in the 1996 edition of the original 1948 version with eight movements. Lonely Waters is a brief but evocative orchestral rhapsody, and Whythorne’s Shadow a touching fantasy based on an Elizabethan madrigal.
The outstanding young soloist Guy Johnston (winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 2000) has been receiving superb international reviews, and this disc marks the early partnership of the Ulster Orchestra with JoAnn Falletta.

BBC Music Magazine * * * *
In Guy Johnston [the Concerto] has a soloist entirely sensitive to its swift and sometimes paradoxical changes of mood: this is an effective performance of a little-heard and underrated work...The Ulster Orchestra is in fine form, and JoAnn Falletta seems to have the measure of Moeran's elusive and eclectic idiom.

Gramophone Magazine
[the Cello Concerto is] full of the most heart-stoppingly beautiful inspiration...Johnston responds with heaps of poetry and selfless dedication...The Ulster Orchestra under JoAnn Falletta are certainly on their toes both here and in the three remaining items.

MusicWeb International
To my ear cellist Guy Johnston is the most impressive of the three players to have recorded the principal work...Johnston plays with just the right musing rhapsodic freedom and with a beautifully unforced tone...this is a good place for a Moeran newcomer to start a collection and a compulsory purchase for all other acolytes.

The Guardian * * * *
Recognising that it's not a work in which soloist and orchestra confront each other, they combine to give a perfect sense of shape and purpose to the endless song of the first movement, with its fiercely combative central development, and locate the emotional heart of the work in the introspective central Adagio, which Johnston shades very beautifully.

muzycy:
Guy Johnston - wiolonczela
Rebekah Coffey: soprano
Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta: conductor

utwory:
Moeran: Cello Concerto
Moeran: Lonely Waters
Moeran: Serenade in G
Moeran: Whythorne's Shadow

wydano: 2013
more info: www.naxos.com