Holst: Cotswolds Symphony
Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th July 2012
JoAnn Falletta on Naxos conducts from original manuscripts, including for the first time several bars cut by Matthews. Holst fans will want to buy this disc for that reason alone...[Indra] exudes...
Holst: Cotswolds Symphony
Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th July 2012
JoAnn Falletta on Naxos conducts from original manuscripts, including for the first time several bars cut by Matthews. Holst fans will want to buy this disc for that reason alone...[Indra] exudes...
About
Gustav Holst’s youthful enthusiasm for Wagner is reflected in his ebullient Walt Whitman overture written in 1899. Shortly afterwards he composed the Cotswolds Symphony which embraces hints of contemporary British folk music but is dominated by the slow movement, a profound elegy for the utopian socialist William Morris. Though completed at college, A Winter Idyll shows real orchestral assurance. Indra is an accomplished tone poem revealing Holst’s interest in the legends of India, whilst the glittering and evocative Japanese Suite was written in response to a request from a Japanese dancer appearing in London.
Interest in Holst’s music continues to grow, and in particular in more outof-the-way material. British music specialists are particularly drawn to him. This disc offers youthful and mid-period Holst.
Contents and tracklist
Spotlight on this release
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Holst and Delius on Naxos
16th Jul 2012
JoAnn Falletta conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Holst’s Cotswolds Symphony, and David Hill directs Delius’s Nietzsche-inspired Mass for Life with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week16th July 2012
July 2012
JoAnn Falletta on Naxos conducts from original manuscripts, including for the first time several bars cut by Matthews. Holst fans will want to buy this disc for that reason alone...[Indra] exudes confidence and orchestral mastery. It deserves to be regularly performed.
August 2012
it is good to hear these works played with such panache
August 2012
The sound quality of this disc is excellent - as is expected from Naxos. The Ulster Orchestra under their Principal Conductor JoAnn Falletta give an authoritative account of these scores...This CD will appeal strongly to all those people who long for more of the same when it comes to The Planets … or at least music stylistically analogous to that work.
16th July 2012
Falletta inspires some moments of real fire and excitement. The recorded sound is very good and the balance within the orchestra superb.
5th June 2012
to judge from these works, all very impressively played by the Ulster Orchestra under its new principal conductor JoAnn Falletta, Holst's style took some years to settle down completely.
2nd June 2012
There’s so much British music around this summer, but here’s some you won’t have heard unless you are a Holst anorak...Good performances, despite a few rough string moments.
