Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.5 (new edition) / Christopher Wright - Violin Concerto, Momentum | Dutton - Epoch CDLX7286

Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.5 (new edition) / Christopher Wright - Violin Concerto, Momentum

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Label: Dutton - Epoch

Cat No: CDLX7286

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 19th March 2012

Contents

Artists

Fenella Humphreys (violin)
Christopher Watson (tenor)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Martin Yates

Works

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Symphony no.5 in D major (ed. Peter Horton)

Wright, Christopher

Momentum
Violin Concerto 'And then there was silence...'

Artists

Fenella Humphreys (violin)
Christopher Watson (tenor)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Martin Yates

About

This world premiere recording of Peter Horton’s new edition of Vaughan Williams’ Fifth Symphony, edited from the manuscript, is the first time a recording addresses all the textural problems left in the published score. Peter Horton writes: “The composer’s notoriously hard-to-read handwriting caused further problems, as the copyist assigned to make a fair copy of the score introduced a large number of mistakes, principally (but not exclusively) in the phrasing and articulation. To compound matters, these subsequently made their way into the orchestral parts and the published score. The most significant was the delay by one bar of a timpani entry in the Romanza.” The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Martin Yates.

The coupling is Christopher Wright’s deeply felt Violin Concerto, sensitively played by Fenella Humphreys. Christopher Wright’s affecting Concerto was written in memory of his wife, and looks perhaps to Walton for its stylistic roots, especially in the scherzando elements of the middle movement. Composer Elis Pehkonen writes how "Words cannot convey the beauty and emotional content of this music.” For this piece, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra is conducted by Martin Yates.

Includes World premiere recordings.

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