London Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Edward Gardner conducts Britten (2025)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Edward Gardner conducts Britten (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:05:13 | 268 Mb
Genre: Classical
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:05:13 | 268 Mb
Genre: Classical
This is Edward Gardner's sixth release on LPO Label, and the third that celebrates the 20th anniversary of the label in 2025. This Britten program was recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall (Sinfonia da Requiem and The Prince of the Pagodas) and Saffron Hall (Winter Words). A bold, early masterpiece written at just twenty-six and originally commissioned to commemorate Japan's 2600th imperial anniversary, Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem was rejected for being too solemn, but emerged as his only major purely orchestral work and a powerful response to the growing threat of war. Winter Words Britten's poignant song cycle originally for tenor and piano, set to texts of 8 poems by Thomas Hardy is presented here in a new orchestration by Robin Holloway-a world premiere recording. The Prince of the Pagodas, Britten's ballet with Edward Gardner's distilled concert suite from The Prince of the Pagodas-another world premiere recording-fulfils Britten's unrealised ambition to arrange his full-length ballet into a dramatic orchestral suite.
Track List:
1. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20: I. Lacrymosa (7:16)
2. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20: II. Dies Irae (5:08)
3. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20: III. Requiem Aeternam (5:43)
4. Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52 (Orch. Robin Holloway): I. At Day-close in November (1:28)
5. Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52 (Orch. Robin Holloway): II. Midnight on the Great Western "The Journeying Boy" (4:22)
6. Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52 (Orch. Robin Holloway): III. Wagtail and Baby (A Satire) (2:29)
7. Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52 (Orch. Robin Holloway): IV. The Little Old Table (1:15)
8. Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52 (Orch. Robin Holloway): V. The Choirmaster's Burial (or The Tenor Man's Story) (4:13)
9. Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52 (Orch. Robin Holloway): VI. Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales) (1:09)
10. Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52 (Orch. Robin Holloway): VII. At the Railway Station, Upway (The Convict and Boy with the Violin) (3:01)
11. Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52 (Orch. Robin Holloway): VIII. Before Life and After (3:06)
12. Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas Suite, Op. 57: Prelude (2:09)
13. Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas Suite, Op. 57, Act I The Palace of the Emperor of the Middle Kingdom: The Fool and the Dwarf (1:29)
14. Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas Suite, Op. 57, Act I Scene 1 The Palace of the Emperor of the Middle Kingdom: Variation of Princess Belle Épine (2:32)
15. Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas Suite, Op. 57, Act II Scene 1 The Strange Journey of Belle Rose to the Pagoda Land: Introduction (1:32)
16. Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas Suite, Op. 57, Act II Scene 1 The Strange Journey of Belle Rose to the Pagoda Land: Waltz. Clouds, Stars and Moon (4:48)
17. Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas Suite, Op. 57, Act II Scene 1 The Strange Journey of Belle Rose to the Pagoda Land: Belle Rose borne in by the Frogs (1:12)
18. Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas Suite, Op. 57, Act II Scene 2 The Arrival and Adventures of Belle Rose in the Kingdom of the Pagodas: The Pagodas (2:39)
19. Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas Suite, Op. 57, Act II Scene 2 The Arrival and Adventures of Belle Rose in the Kingdom of the Pagodas: The Hunt (2:39)
20. Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas Suite, Op. 57, Act III The Palace of the Middle Kingdom: Pas de Deux. Belle Rose and the Prince of the Pagodas (2:43)
21. Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas Suite, Op. 57, Act III The Palace of the Middle Kingdom: Finale and Apotheosis (4:26)
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