Elisabeth Lutyens - Quincunx * • And Suddenly it's Evening **
David Bedford - Music for Albion Moonlight ***
* Josephine Nendick, soprano, John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar, conductor
** Herbert Handt, tenor / director
Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
*** Jane Manning, soprano
Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Carewe, conductor
Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 2008 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: SRCD.265
UPC/EAN: 5020926026521
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: ADD
Number of discs: 1
Total playing time: 77.00
Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)
Tracks 1 - 10: Recorded at Kingsway Hall, November 1968
Tracks 11 - 14: Recorded at Decca No. 3, May 1969
Tracks 15 - 18: Recorded at Decca No. 3, March 1969;
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Elisabeth Lutyens was a pioneer in British music, both as a woman composer and as a serialist. Her exceptional prolificacy was achieved largely whilst raising four children and supporting her mostly unemployed husband. She is habitually described as a 'miniaturist', but, concise though many of her works are, and frequently involving chamber forces, she also handled a large orchestra expertly and wrote effectively on a substantial scale, as evidenced by the masterly Quincunx, written between October 1959 and February 1960 ...
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Quincunx, after Sir Thomas Browne Op.44 (1960)
for baritone, soprano and orchestra |
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 - 1983) |
24.14 |
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Tutti 1 |
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2.46 |
| 2 |
Soli 1 woodwind |
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2.02 |
| 3 |
Tutti 2 |
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2.09 |
| 4 |
Soli 2 strings |
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1.39 |
| 5 |
Intro: baritone |
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1.36 |
| 6 |
Tutti 3: soprano |
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4.11 |
| 7 |
Soli 3 percussion |
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0.54 |
| 8 |
Tutti 4 |
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2.21 |
| 9 |
Soli 4 brass |
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2.03 |
| 10 |
Tutti 5 coda-finale |
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4.33 |
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And Suddenly it’s Evening Op. 66 (1966)
for tenor and chamber ensemble
words by Salvatore Quasimodo |
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 - 1983) |
23.52 |
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I On the Willow Boughs |
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5.15 |
| 12 |
II In the Just Human Time |
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5.22 |
| 13 |
III Almost a Madrigal |
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7.58 |
| 14 |
IV And Suddenly it’s Evening |
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5.17 |
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Music for Albion Moonlight (1965)
for soprano, flute, clarinet, melodica, piano, violin, cello
words by Kenneth Patchen |
David Bedford (b. 1937) |
29.10 |
| 15 |
I So it ends |
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9.01 |
| 16 |
II If we are to know where we live |
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7.33 |
| 17 |
III Lament for the makers of songs |
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5.35 |
| 18 |
IV Fall of the evening star |
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7.02 |
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