Grace Williams - Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes • Carillons for Oboe & Orchestra • Penillion* • Trumpet Concerto • Sea Sketches for string orchestra**
Anthony Camden, oboe
Label: Lyrita
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"...[a] special, and potentially disconcerting, feature of Williams’s work is the confrontation it seems to relish between modest forms and richly-scored textures which – if only briefly – open up unexpectedly grand vistas. Even in a work as emotionally straightforward as the Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes a full-throated romanticism emerges which can seem incongruous in an age that prefers to treat such material more sceptically… In the sphere of instrumental music Williams never surpassed the polished yet strongly felt Sea Sketches in which …one hears echoes of her friend Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge" Arnold Wittall, Gramophone |
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