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Bliss - The Lady of Shalott, Rout, etc. | Dutton - Epoch CDLX7387

Bliss - The Lady of Shalott, Rout, etc.

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Label: Dutton - Epoch

Cat No: CDLX7387

Barcode: 0765387738723

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 12th November 2021

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Martin Yates and the BBC Concert Orchestra present glorious yet unfamiliar music by Arthur Bliss. Bliss’s late ballet, The Lady of Shalott (1958), has been unjustly forgotten, deserving to be danced again, and with its Arthurian setting proves to be quite a find. In the varied and tuneful supporting programme, perhaps the biggest surprise is the catchy One-Step (1923, orch. 1936), which reveals Bliss as being up-to-the-minute with the popular music of his day. Piano music heard anew yields the Polonaise (1925), another engaging miniature suitable for either the concert or the ballet stage.

Bliss described the Rout for soprano and orchestra (1920) as evoking “the sound of a carnival overheard at a distance”, and in this spirited, lyrical confection, soprano Ilona Domnich gets into the party spirit with her medley of made-up words. Two Contrasts (1950, arr. 1972) comprises dynamic orchestral versions of movements from Bliss’s Second String Quartet, while a pair of BBC radio signature tunes takes us back to 1944 and 1950. Lastly, Bliss’s tribute to Winston Churchill on his death in 1965, March of Homage in Honour of a Great Man, constitutes the composer’s Churchill Funeral March, and it is good to hear it performed so rousingly in its orchestral dress.

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