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The Barbirolli English Music Album

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Label: Barbirolli Society

Cat No: SJB1022

Barcode: 5060181660221

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 12th October 2009

Contents

Works

Bax
The Garden of Fand

Butterworth
A Shropshire Lad: Orchestral Rhapsody

Ireland
The Forgotten Rite: Prelude for Orchestra

Ireland
Mai-Dun: Symphonic Rhapsody

Ireland
These Things Shall Be

Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’

Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

Elgar
Enigma Variations op.36

Elgar
Bavarian Dance No.2 ‘Lullaby’

Barbirolli
An Elizabethan Suite

Purcell
Suite for Strings (arr. Barbirolli)

Artists

Parry Jones (tenor)
Halle Choir
Halle Orchestra

Conductor

John Barbirolli

Works

Bax
The Garden of Fand

Butterworth
A Shropshire Lad: Orchestral Rhapsody

Ireland
The Forgotten Rite: Prelude for Orchestra

Ireland
Mai-Dun: Symphonic Rhapsody

Ireland
These Things Shall Be

Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’

Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

Elgar
Enigma Variations op.36

Elgar
Bavarian Dance No.2 ‘Lullaby’

Barbirolli
An Elizabethan Suite

Purcell
Suite for Strings (arr. Barbirolli)

Artists

Parry Jones (tenor)
Halle Choir
Halle Orchestra

Conductor

John Barbirolli

About

This Barbirolli English Music Album contains something of a scoop in that the recording of Elgar’s Enigma Variations was made on 12 May 1947, the first time Barbirolli recorded the work. For some undiscoverable reason, the discs were never issued and the work was re-recorded on 23 October of the same year (also issued on CD by the Barbirolli Society on SJB1017).

His affection for this inexhaustible masterpiece shone through every performance of it he gave, as he gloried in the piquancy of the illustration of Elgar’s “friends pictured within” - and he liked to remind Michael Kennedy that the Variations and JB were born in the same year, 1899.

Elgar’s genius was to weld his series of vignettes into a large-scale composite portrait - of himself. This gift for writing a miniature which was a microcosm of a big work is illustrated also in the second (the exquisite Lullaby) of the Three Bavarian Dances, a previously unpublished take, recorded on 30 May 1947.

Contents:
CD 1
- Stereo/Mono
Arnold Bax
- The Garden of Fand
Recorded 21 June 1956, Free Trade Hall, Manchester

George Butterworth
- A Shropshire Lad – Orchestral Rhapsody
Recorded 20 June 1956, Free Trade Hall, Manchester

John Ireland
- The Forgotten Rite: Prelude for Orchestra
Recorded 31 May 1949, No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
- Mai-Dun: Symphonic Rhapsody
Recorded 31 May 1949, No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
- These Things Shall Be
with Parry Jones (tenor) and the Hallé Choir (chorus master: Herbert Bardgett)
Recorded 1 May 1948, Houldsworth Hall, Manchester

CD 2 - Stereo/Mono
Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’
Recorded 26 February 1948 Houldsworth Hall, Manchester
- Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Recorded 6 June 1946 Houldsworth Hall, Manchester

Edward Elgar
- Enigma Variations op.36
Recorded 12 May 1947 Houldsworth Hall, Manchester (HMV previously unpublished)
- Bavarian Dance No.2 ‘Lullaby’
Recorded 30 May 1947 Kingsway Hall, London HMV unpublished take

John Barbirolli
- An Elizabethan Suite
Recorded 5 January 1954, Free Trade Hall, Manchester

Purcell (arr. Barbirolli)
- Suite for Strings
Recorded 22 June 1956, Free Trade Hall, Manchester

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