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The Garden of Proserpine/Fen and Flood
The Garden of Proserpine/Fen and Flood
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World Première recordings of Vaughan Williams's The Garden of Proserpine and Hadley's Fen and Flood (arranged by Vaughan Williams), recorded in The Lighthouse, Poole, in 2010 with Joyful Company of singers and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Paul Daniel.
Vaughan Williams completed The Garden of Proserpine in 1899 - his first attempt at a large-scale work, for soprano soloist, chorus and full orchestra. In the closing pages, it achieves that combination of radiance and nobility that is so characteristic of this composer in his later works.
Fen and Flood was inspired by the devastating events of the night of Saturday 31 January 1953. A combination of high spring-tides and a deadly hurricane force North-Westerly wind created a storm tide up to 18 feet above mean sea level. 2,400 people lost their lives, many whilst still in bed. Patrick Hadley lived in North Norfolk and thus had a direct emotional and physical involvement in these events. A pupil of Vaughan Williams in the 1920s, he was a Professor of Music at Cambridge University. He wrote Fen and Flood for soloists with a male chorus. Vaughan Williams offered to arrange it with a mixed chorus.
Paul Daniel CBE became Music Director of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine in 2013 and is also currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia. He conducts the RLPO on ALBCD016 Vaughan Williams: The Solent (nominated for a Grammy award). Jane Irwin studied at Lancaster University and at the Royal Northern College of Music. She has sung for the BBC Proms and many festivals. Mary Bevan studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge University and trained at the Royal Academy of Music School. She features on ALBCD029 Vaughan Williams: Purer than Pearl. Leigh Melrose has carved out a formidable reputation for the performance of new works and dramatic 20th century repertoire.
Product details
- Release Date:
- 2011-05-01
- Publication Date:
- 2011-05-01
- Publisher:
- Albion Records (in-Akustik)
- Languages:
- Published: English
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Height:
- 0.9 cm
- Width:
- 14.3 cm
- Thickness:
- 12.5 cm
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