Finzi - Dies Natalis, Romance for Strings / Walton - Sonata for Strings | Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE0021

Finzi - Dies Natalis, Romance for Strings / Walton - Sonata for Strings

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Label: Wigmore Hall Live

Cat No: WHLIVE0021

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th January 2008

Contents

Artists

Toby Spence (tenor)
Scottish Ensemble

Conductor

Jonathan Morton

Works

Finzi, Gerald

Dies natalis, op.8
Romance for String Orchestra, op.11

Walton, William

Sonata for String Orchestra

Artists

Toby Spence (tenor)
Scottish Ensemble

Conductor

Jonathan Morton

About

Dies Natalis was first performed at Wigmore Hall in 1940, (by Elsie Suddaby and the Maurice Miles String Orchestra conducted by Maurice Miles). This particular recording is taken from a concert at Wigmore Hall on 13 October 2007, directed from the violin by Jonathan Morton.
Toby Spence has been described by the Guardian as ‘British opera's blue-eyed boy', having scored big successes at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival production of Britten's 'Curlew River', and as Tamino in an especially impressive return of ENO's staging of Mozart's Magic Flute.
His vocalism was impressive, the rich sweetness and the legato line close to ideal for Finzi’s rapturous declamation’ - The Times review of the concert
Of the Scottish Ensemble: ‘Now directed from the first violin by Jonathan Morton in succession to the lustrous Clio Gould, the Scottish Ensemble is 12 solo strings - violins, violas, cellos and a double bass - capable of the most sensitised chamber textures, yet generating a surprising weight and power as an orchestra’ - The Independent

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