RUBBRA Sinfonia Concertante. Violin Concerto
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Composer or Director: (Charles) Edmund Rubbra, Cyril (Meir) Scott
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Lyrita
Magazine Review Date: AW17
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 72
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: REAM1134
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sinfonia Concertante |
(Charles) Edmund Rubbra, Composer
(Charles) Edmund Rubbra, Composer City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Hugo Rignold, Conductor |
Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Cyril Scott |
(Charles) Edmund Rubbra, Composer
(Charles) Edmund Rubbra, Composer |
Consolation |
Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer
(Charles) Edmund Rubbra, Composer Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer |
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra |
(Charles) Edmund Rubbra, Composer
(Charles) Edmund Rubbra, Composer BBC Symphony Orchestra Endre Wolf, Violin Rudolf Schwarz, Conductor |
Author: Andrew Achenbach
There’s more buried treasure in the shape of a spirited account of the imposing Sinfonia concertante for piano and orchestra that Rubbra originally completed in 1936 and comprehensively overhauled in the early 1940s. The composer himself participated in the first performance with Adrian Boult and the BBC SO at an August 1943 Prom and the present BBC broadcast from May 1967 with the CBSO under Hugo Rignold serves as a splendid reminder of his interpretative skills. What a powerful work it is, too, culminating in a deeply felt prelude and fugue inscribed to the memory of Holst (with whom Rubbra had studied at Reading University and the Royal College of Music). It’s followed here by another Prelude and Fugue, this time for solo piano and based on a theme from the First Piano Sonata by Rubbra’s boyhood teacher, Cyril Scott (1879-1970). Rubbra affords it affectingly serene treatment, as he does Scott’s searching Consolation (1918). Both these items come from a recital transmitted by the BBC in August 1967.
Transfers from Richard Itter’s off-air mono tapes have been most judiciously managed and Paul Conway’s copious notes are a real boon. All in all, an issue to savour.
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