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Frederic Austin - Overtures, Spring, Symphony | Dutton - Epoch CDLX7288

Frederic Austin - Overtures, Spring, Symphony

Label: Dutton - Epoch

Cat No: CDLX7288

Barcode: 0765387728823

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 19th March 2012

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Contents

Artists

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Douglas Bostock
Ronald Corp

Works

Austin, Frederic

Richard II: overture (reconstructed Jeremy Lee-Browne)
Spring (Symphonic Rhapsody)
Symphony in E major (ed. Jim Gowers)
The Sea Venturers
» Overture

Artists

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Douglas Bostock
Ronald Corp

About

As a coupling for their new recording of Frederic Austin’s romantic overture Richard the Second with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Dutton Epoch have reissued tracks from three different earlier recordings, all brilliantly remastered, to assemble a remarkable survey of orchestral music by the great English baritone who was also a notable composer.

Austin’s big-boned Symphony of 1913 almost certainly influenced his friend the young Arnold Bax, while the colourful orchestral tone painting in the overture The Sea Venturers adds yet another vibrant musical sea picture to the repertoire. Both are vividly played by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Douglas Bostock.

The programme is completed with Austin’s delightful nature poem, the Symphonic Rhapsody Spring, a success at the Proms in 1907. They make a cherishable sequence, which reveals yet another British composer who had been eclipsed, but proves very much to have had something to say. If you like Bax or early Frank Bridge, this is a terrific discovery.

Includes a World premiere recording.

Contents:
- Overture: The Sea Venturers (1934)
- Symphony in E major (1913), edited by Jim Gowers
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Douglas Bostock

- Rhapsody: Spring (1907 rev. 1939)
Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra / Douglas Bostock

- Overture: Richard II (1900), reconstructed by Jeremy Lee-Browne
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Ronald Corp
World Premiere Recording

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