Elizabeth Maconchy - Overture, Proud Thames * • Symphony for Double String Orchestra ** • Serenata Concertante ** • Music for Strings ***
* London Philharmonic Orchestra
Label: Lyrita
Track 1: Recorded at Walthamstow, 4 January 1972, Producer: David Harvey, Engineer: James Lock |
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Maconchy’s early successes were orchestral, and although she came to be best known for her chamber music, this CD reveals her continuing gift for orchestral writing. Where the quartets are very closely argued (in her words 'passionately intellectual and intellectually passionate'), the orchestral music is more expansive and more lyrical, revealing the full range of her expressive harmony. Her love of counterpoint, of rhythm as much as melody, is still present and gives the music its special character. |
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