Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin; Berkeley - Divertimento; Pounds - Symphony no.3
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHSA5324
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 9th February 2024
Contents
Artists
Sinfonia of LondonConductor
John WilsonWorks
Divertimento in B flat major, op.18Symphony no.3
Le Tombeau de Couperin (orchestra)
Artists
Sinfonia of LondonConductor
John WilsonAbout
Berkeley met Ravel a number of times in the 1920s, working as an interpreter and tour-guide whilst Ravel was in London. Ravel advised him to study with Nadia Boulanger, which he did, between 1926 and 1932. Commissioned by Sir Arthur Bliss for the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1942, the Divertimento initially received a mixed reception, but has since found many supporters (including Pounds). The critic Peter Dickinson felt it showed an ‘instinctive and unimpassioned creativeness associated with the French aesthetic, but by no means restricted to it’.
Adam Pounds studied privately with Berkeley in London during the late 1970s, and in his own music has perpetuated the firm commitment of the two earlier composers to clarity and accessibility in everything they wrote. His Third Symphony was written in 2021 and is a response to the national lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Pounds states that the piece captures the ‘sadness, humour, determination and defiance’ which everyone faced at this time – not least musicians. Scored for relatively modest orchestral forces, the work is dedicated to Sinfonia of London and John Wilson who here give the work its world-premičre recording.
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