R3: Two Firsts tonight

[Pianorak]

R3 7.00 Live in Concert

Two world premieres

Bowen: Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
RVW: The Garden of Proserpine

[Roehre]

R3 7.00 Live in Concert

Two world premieres

Bowen: Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
RVW: The Garden of Proserpine

Of the Garden of Proserpine Michael Kennedy writes that this work (IHO) is preferable to the slightly younger piece Willow-Wood, which a couple of years was recorded by Naxos.
We will listen.

[Lion-of-Vienna]

The Bowen piece has already been recorded by Raphael Wallfisch and released on an excellent Dutton Epoch disc together with Havergal Brian's Cello Concerto and a work by Alan Bush. I am particularly looking forward to hearing the VW. It's interesting that "new" works from him are still appearing over half a century after his death.

[Suffolkcoastal]

I'll be ordering the new release of the RVW today, hopefully will get it by the end of the week. Still quite a number of RVW scores that have never been recorded, mainly from his early years, including some early orchestral works and a fantasia for piano & orchestra.

[Pianorak]

I'll be ordering the new release of the RVW today

This one? http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/A...m_medium=email

[Suffolkcoastal]

Yes pianorak, also going to order the symphonies box in the Sibelius edition which is due for release tomorrow.

[salymap]

Yes, but what did you all think of the RVW? I caught half of it. I heard pre-echoes of other works to come. I'd like to know what others thought and why has it been neglected for so long?

[PJPJ]

What a lovely work it is, too, as is the Bowen, sounding splendid in Dorchester Abbey's comfortable acoustic. Why the VW has been neglected is a mystery to me - it's hardly an immature work, after all, and has some superb orchestral and choral colours.

I recorded the concert off Listen Again - the Bowen is split across the concert's part 1 and "20 Minutes" so needed stitching together after deleting the duplicated bars....

[Ventilhorn]

R3 7.00 Live in Concert

Two world premieres

Bowen: Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
RVW: The Garden of Proserpine

I didn't listen to the new RVW work - I don't do British Choral Music, but there was some lovely horn playing by the BSO's new 1st horn in the Delius and the York Bowen.
Quite a pleasant piece but understandable that it has not had the exposure over the years. Most cellists, if they want a change from Dvorak, Haydn, Schumann, Shostakovitch and Elgar, would go for Walton or Britten (if they want to stay British), or for the rarely played but delightful Leon Boëllmann.

Egdon Heath was as boring as ever for me. I'll stick with "The Perfect Fool", "Beni Mora" and "The Planets" and leave the rest of Holst for others to enjoy.

VH

[french frank]

This afternoon I bought the Dutton 2 CD set of the York Bowen Rhapsody, as mentioned in Msg #3. All three pieces seem to be world premiere recordings, the other two being the Concert Suite for Cello and Orchestra by Alan Bush and the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Havergal Brian. I quite like the Bush but somehow I'd expected something more contemporary in style, uncompromising.