
Fricker - The Vision of Judgement, Symphony no.5
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Label: Lyrita
Cat No: REAM1124
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 12th February 2016
Contents
Artists
Jane Manning (soprano)Robert Tear (tenor)
Gillian Weir (organ)
Leeds Festival Chorus
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Charles GrovesColin Davis
Works
Symphony no.5, op.74The Vision of Judgement, op.29
Artists
Jane Manning (soprano)Robert Tear (tenor)
Gillian Weir (organ)
Leeds Festival Chorus
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Charles GrovesColin Davis
About
The Vision of Judgement was first performed on 13 October 1958 at Leeds Town Hall as part of the Leeds Centenary Festival. The performance presented here is conducted by Charles Groves, who was familiar with the Fricker style, having taken up the composer’s First Symphony and performed it in one of his last concerts as conductor of the BBC Northern Orchestra and then introduced it in Bournemouth and on the Continent.
Dedicated ‘to the many fine musicians with whom I have had the pleasure of working so happily in the Royal Festival Hall’, Fricker’s Symphony no.5 was premiered by organist Gillian Weir with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Colin Davis on 5 May 1976 at the RFH in the presence of the composer. It was featured at the Proms on 11 August 1976 with the organist Jennifer Bate and the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra under John Pritchard. Terse and direct, the score offers some grand gestures in its lively outer sections which are offset by eloquent dialogues between its two principal protagonists in the interludial central segment. Considerable tension is generated in the closing pages, which present an unbuttoned, euphoric display of bravura.
The Vision of Judgement, op.29 (1957)
Jane Manning (soprano)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Leeds Festival Chorus (chorus master: Donald Hunt)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Groves
BBC broadcast: 14 October 1980
Symphony no.5 for organ & orchestra, op.74 (1976)
Gillian Weir (organ)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
BBC broadcast: 5 May 1976 (first performance, live from the Royal Festival Hall)
Total playing time: 66.48
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