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Bantock - Orchestral Music

Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Elizabeth Connell (soprano) & Kim Begley (tenor)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Bantock - Orchestral Music
Magnificently recorded and performed. When audiences are crying out for 'melodious music' how can such music as this have been ignored for so long?

Gramophone Magazine

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Bantock - Orchestral Music

Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Elizabeth Connell (soprano) & Kim Begley (tenor)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

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Magnificently recorded and performed. When audiences are crying out for 'melodious music' how can such music as this have been ignored for so long?

Gramophone Magazine

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Contents and tracklist

Bantock: Celtic Symphony for string orchestra and six harps
Work length20:01
I. Lento sostenuto
Track length3:30
II. Allegro con fuoco
Track length7:10
III. Andante con tenerezza
Track length4:54
IV. Port-a-Bial: Allegro con spirito
Track length1:28
V. Largamente maestoso
Track length2:59
Bantock: The Witch of Atlas Tone Poem for Orchestra No. 5
Work length14:48
I. A lady-witch there lived on Atlas mountain
Track length2:07
II. 'Tis said, she was first changed into a vapour
Track length2:17
III. And old Silenus, shaking a green stick
Track length2:36
IV. And every nymph of stream and spreading tree
Track length1:31
V. For she was beautiful
Track length1:01
VI. The deep recesses of her odorous dwelling
Track length0:31
VII. And then she called out of the hollow turrets
Track length1:52
VIII. To those she saw most beautiful
Track length2:53
Bantock: The Sea Reivers Hebridean Sea Poem No. 2
Work length3:52
Bantock: A Hebridean Symphony
Work length35:03
I. [untitled]
Track length7:26
II. [untitled]
Track length3:00
III. [untitled]
Track length5:40
IV. [untitled]
Track length3:22
V. [untitled]
Track length3:27
VI. [untitled]
Track length3:50
VII. [untitled]
Track length2:51
VIII. [untitled]
Track length2:08
IX. [untitled]
Track length3:19
Bantock: Pagan Symphony 'Et ego in Arcadio vixi'
Work length35:42
I. Tranquillo molto lento sostenuto
Track length6:11
II. Allegro con spirito
Track length9:36
III. Scherzo: Dance of Satyrs
Track length2:58
IV. Fanfare: Allegretto con moto
Track length6:07
V. Molto lento, sostenuto e rubato
Track length2:49
VI. Allegro molto e con fuoco
Track length8:01
Bantock: Fifine at the Fair - A Defence of Inconstancy
Work length35:32
I. Prologue 'Amphibian': Tranquillo, molto sostenuto
Track length6:37
II. The Fair: Vivace
Track length4:44
III. Fifine dances: Allegretto grazioso e capriccioso
Track length7:57
IV. Elvire's theme
Track length9:04
V. Epilogue: Lento con malinconia
Track length7:10
Bantock: Two Heroic Ballads
Work length8:18
I. Cuchullan's Lament
Track length3:52
II. Kishmul's Galley
Track length4:26
Bantock: The Cyprian Goddess
Work length24:31
I. Maestoso e sforzato – Lentamente – Poco largamente – Con più moto
Track length5:52
II. Liberamente – Affrettando – Tranquillo molto sostenuto
Track length2:37
III. Animando – Con fuoco – Con molto agitato
Track length3:27
IV. Lentamente – Lento sostenuto – Poco lentando – Allegretto grazioso – Con fuoco – Con anima
Track length9:20
V. Più moto, affrettando – Tranquillo, e molto sostenuto
Track length3:15
Bantock: Helena Variations
Work length19:27
Theme. Lento molto
Track length1:51
Variation 01. Allegro molto con fuoco
Track length0:44
Variation 02. Poco tranquillo
Track length0:52
Variation 03. Allegretto scherzando
Track length1:56
Variation 04. Molto moderato quasi religioso
Track length0:42
Variation 05. Capriccioso
Track length1:17
Variation 06. Poco agitato
Track length1:01
Variation 07. Lento molto e sostenuto
Track length1:44
Variation 08. Con moto affettuoso
Track length1:27
Variation 09. Allegro impetuoso
Track length1:01
Variation 10. Non più Allegro
Track length1:32
Variation 11. Andante doloroso
Track length2:01
Variation 12. Finale. Allegro appassionato
Track length3:19
Bantock: Dante and Beatrice
Work length25:15
Bantock: Sappho
Work length1:00:20
Beginning. Prelude
Track length10:47
I. Hymn to Aphrodite
Track length7:19
II. I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago
Track length6:37
III. Evening Song
Track length2:24
IV. Stand face to face, friend
Track length8:10
V. The moon has set
Track length5:56
VI. Peer of gods he seems
Track length4:17
VII. In a dream, I spake
Track length4:26
VIII. Bridal Song
Track length4:45
IX. Muse of the golden throne
Track length5:39
Bantock: Sapphic Poem
Work length14:59
Bantock: The Song of Songs: Prelude
Work length11:43
Bantock: Omar Khayyám
Work length14:37
Prelude
Track length6:36
Camel Caravan
Track length8:01
Bantock: Caristiona
Work length9:35
Bantock: Processional
Work length14:46
Bantock: Thalaba the Destroyer
Work length25:59
I. Introduction. The powers of evil: Mesto e lugubre
Track length1:09
II. Zeinab's theme: Molto più lento
Track length1:55
III. Thalaba's theme: Allegro con fuoco
Track length1:57
IV. Oneiza's theme: Moderato sostenuto
Track length3:52
V. Thalaba's fatal languor: Poco lento
Track length3:10
VI. Wedding and brief happiness of love: Meno mosso
Track length2:31
VII. Death of Oneiza: Appassionato con dolore
Track length0:42
VIII. Thalaba wanders desolately amid the tombs: Molto lento
Track length3:37
IX. Thalaba sets out again on his mighty quest: Poco allegro
Track length2:53
X. Thalaba's death, and reprise of Oneiza's theme: Poco più lento
Track length1:47
XI. Evil lost for ever
Track length1:22
XII. The last ecstasy of faith and love: Pesante e risoluto
Track length1:04
Bantock: Overture to a Greek Tragedy
Work length17:58
I. [untitled]
Track length4:00
II. [untitled]
Track length2:20
III. [untitled]
Track length5:31
IV. [untitled]
Track length6:07
Bantock: Christus
Work length6:24
VI. The wilderness and the solitary place
Track length6:24
Bantock: Pierrot of the Minute
Work length12:18
Bantock: The Song of Songs
Work length41:03
Day 2 No 1. The voice of my beloved! (Shulamite)
Track length2:25
Day 2 No 2. My beloved spake (Shulamite / Shepherd)
Track length1:56
Day 2 No 3. Arise, my love, my fair one (Shepherd)
Track length2:54
Day 2 No 4. Take us the foxes, the little foxes (Shulamite)
Track length3:15
Day 2 No 5. Orchestral interlude
Track length2:30
Day 2 No 6. By night in my dream (Shulamite)
Track length3:11
Day 2 No 7. But I found him whom my soul loveth (Shulamite)
Track length3:25
Day 3 No 1. The King's gifts
Track length1:05
Day 3 No 2. The Shulamite
Track length2:17
Day 3 No 3. The Shulamite is left alone
Track length1:00
Day 3 No 4. The Shulamite reflects upon her absent shepherd-lover
Track length1:09
Day 3 No 5. And sees him in a vision on the mountainside
Track length1:34
Day 5 No 1. Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness? (Watchman / Shepherd)
Track length2:00
Day 5 No 2. Set me as a seal upon thine heart (Shulamite / Shepherd)
Track length1:43
Day 5 No 3. Many waters cannot quench love (Shulamite / Shepherd)
Track length1:03
Day 5 No 4. For love is strong as death (Shulamite / Shepherd)
Track length2:32
Day 5 No 5. We have a little sister (Shulamite / Shepherd)
Track length3:56
Day 5 No 6. Make haste, my beloved (Shulamite)
Track length3:08

Awards and reviews

Magnificently recorded and performed. When audiences are crying out for 'melodious music' how can such music as this have been ignored for so long?

2011 edition

Handley is a dedicated advocate and the standard of performances and recordings in this box is very high indeed.
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