Dutton Epoch reviews
Cellier • Ford • Sullivan: Haddon Hall, etc
Henry Waddington, Ed Lyon, et al: BBC Singers; BBC Concert Orchestra/Martin Yates (Dutton Epoch)
Alfred Cellier: The Mountebanks; Suite Symphonique
Soraya Mafi, Thomas Elwin, James Cleverton, Sharon Carty, John-Colyn Gyeantey, Catherine Carby, John Savournin, Geoffrey Dolton;
BBC Singers; BBC Concert Orchestra/John Andrews (Dutton)
Elgar: Short Orchestral Works
BBC Concert Orchestra/David Lloyd-Jones (Dutton Epoch)
Ina Boyle: Overture for Orchestra; Violin Concerto; Symphony No. 1; Wildgeese: Psalm; A Sea Poem
Benjamin Baker, Nadège Rochat; BBC Concert Orchestra/Ronald Corp (Epoch)
Sullivan: The Light of the World
Natalya Romaniw, Eleanor Dennis, Kitty Whately, Robert Murray, Ben McAteer, Neal Davies; Kinder Children’s Choir; BBC Symphony Chorus; BBC Concert Orchestra/John Andrews (Dutton)
Martin Yates conducts orchestral music by Chaminade
In 1895, The Musical Times in reviewing this Concertstück played by the composer heard influences of Wagner, Liszt and Grieg; Lewis Foreman in the liner notes to this disc adds Dvořák and Saint-Saëns. Take your pick!
Martin Yates conducts Vaughan Williams's Scott of the Antarctic with 'appropriate majesty'
One of my music teachers loftily pronounced that the Sinfonia Antarticawas not a real symphony, but merely film music. He would surely have been silenced by what conductor Martin Yates has uncovered here – essentially a huge forgotten work on, as the notes put it, ‘a quasi-symphonic canvas’, which Vaughan Williams composed in full before even a frame of the film itself was shot – apparently in a fervent three weeks.