Utwory na płycie:

• Howells - Concerto for String Orchestra * - Allegro vivo: ritmico e giocoso - Vivo - Come prima - (opening)
• Elgar - Introduction and Allegro Op.47 * - Allegro (Tempo I) - Piu animato - (conclusion)

Ralph Vaughan Williams:
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Herbert Howells:
Concerto for String Orchestra

Frederick Delius:
Late Swallows

Sir Edward Elgar:
Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47

This keenly anticipated album from Sinfonia of London and John Wilson features two of the greatest British works for string orchestra: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and Sir Edward Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro. Elgar’s groundbreaking work, commissioned for the newly formed London Symphony Orchestra and premiered in 1905, is inspired by the baroque concerto grosso, and features a solo string quartet contrasted with the full symphonic string section.

These orchestral forces were also adopted by Herbert Howells in his Concerto for String Orchestra, from 1938. Delius’s Late Swallows is the only piece not originally composed for string orchestra; it was arranged (from the slow movement of Delius’s String Quartet) by his amanuensis, Eric Fenby.

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Recording: Church of S. Augustine, Kilburn, London; 5 January 2022 (Late Swallows) & 23 and 24 August 2021 (other works). Recorded in Surround Sound and available as a Hybrid SACD, and digitally in Spatial Audio.