Moeran: In the Mountain Country
Benjamin Frith (piano)
Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
[the Third Rhapsody] may ramble a bit but is a very enjoyable work full of telling ideas, and Benjamin Frith definitely makes the most of the meaty solo part...Falletta directs the Ulster Orchestra...
Moeran: In the Mountain Country
Benjamin Frith (piano)
Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
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[the Third Rhapsody] may ramble a bit but is a very enjoyable work full of telling ideas, and Benjamin Frith definitely makes the most of the meaty solo part...Falletta directs the Ulster Orchestra...
About
Ernest John Moeran’s Rhapsodies occupy a significant place among his orchestral compositions. Each is marked by melodic exuberance, inventive scoring and formal mastery. Moeran’s gift for imbuing his music with folkloric tunes that are actually his own is especially evident in the First Rhapsody and in his first orchestral work, In the Mountain Country. First performed in 1943, the Rhapsody in F sharp major for piano and orchestra is unashamedly popular in style, with an appealing tunefulness.
JoAnn Falletta serves as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony in the United States and Principal Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra in Northern Ireland.
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February 2014
[the Third Rhapsody] may ramble a bit but is a very enjoyable work full of telling ideas, and Benjamin Frith definitely makes the most of the meaty solo part...Falletta directs the Ulster Orchestra with a keen understanding of Moeran's idiom, the lyric vulnerability as well as the extrovert dynamism.
28th January 2014
The sound is full-on and splendid, courtesy of Tim Handley and Phil Rowlands...Falletta brings real vibrancy to these scores.
2nd January 2014
In the Ulster Orchestra's robust performances of the three early works...it's possible to hear Moeran's steadily increasing confidence, both in his writing for orchestra and in handling form...Frith is the committed, appropriately energetic soloist.
28th December 2013
sympathetically conducted by JoAnn Falletta...Celtic pastoralism with astringent chromatic harmonies and sometimes stormy emotions.
