Journey to Aldeburgh: Young Britten
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Composer or Director: Benjamin Britten, Frank Bridge
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Resonus Classics
Magazine Review Date: 02/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 62
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: RES10139
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
There is a willow grows aslant a brook |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Chamber Domaine Frank Bridge, Composer Thomas Kemp, Conductor |
Introduction and Allegro for piano trio |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Adrian Bradbury, Cello Benjamin Britten, Composer Sophia Rahman, Piano Thomas Kemp, Violin |
The Moon |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Sophia Rahman, Piano Thomas Kemp, Violin |
Allegro |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Sophia Rahman, Piano |
Suite |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Sophia Rahman, Piano Thomas Kemp, Violin |
Sinfonietta |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Chamber Domaine Thomas Kemp, Conductor |
Author: Richard Fairman
That is not all. There is also the first recording of Britten’s arrangement for instrumental ensemble of Bridge’s There is a willow grows aslant a brook. Made for the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, this arrangement for 12 players (described simply as ‘unpublished’ in the Britten Thematic Catalogue) is not to be confused with Britten’s other arrangement for viola and piano, already available on two discs entitled ‘Reflections’ (Naxos, 2/14; Nimbus, 7/14). Its haunting and imaginative instrumental colourings, a deft example of Britten’s skill with a limited palette, is even more appealing. These novelties are probably enough to recommend Resonus’s recording but there are also lively performances of the spiky Suite for violin and piano, Op 6, from 1935 and the rather more familiar Sinfonietta, Op 1, from Chamber Domaine under director and violinist Thomas Kemp. An enterprising selection.
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