Alan Rawsthorne: Cello Concerto; Oboe Concerto; Symphonic Studies
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Composer: Alan RawsthorneConductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-01-16
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Symphonic Studies - RNSO/David Lloyd-Jones
- Ob Con: Maestoso - Allegro - Stephane Rancourt
- Ob Con: Allegretto Con Morbidezza - Stephane Rancourt
- Ob Con: Vivace - Stephane Rancourt
- Vc Con: Allegro Lirico (Quasi Vars) - Alexander Baillie
- Vc Con: Mesto - Alexander Baillie
- Vc Con: Allegro - Vivace - Alexander Baillie
Music reviews of Alan Rawsthorne: Cello Concerto; Oboe Concerto; Symphonic Studies
Music Review: The Raw Power of Rawsthorne
Rating: 5 Stars
Where does Neoclassicism begin? Possibly in Tchaikovsky, who wrote a "Rococco Variations" for Cello and Orchestra and a Suite called "Mozartiana." Italian composers such as Alfredo Casella and Gian-Francesco Mailpiero looked back to Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Vivaldi, Tartini, and Scarlatti in composing their large bodies of work for orchestra. Stravinsky went on a "Back to Bach" binge and Hindemith wrote a set of chamber concertos that answered Bach's Brandenburg set from the viewpoint of the twentieth century. Feruccio Busoni lies somewhere in the mix, with works like the "Fantasia Contrapuntistica." But the phenemonen is wider than any of these comments suggests. Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971), a British composer, deserves mention under the rubric. He employed devices that we associate with the Baroque: Canon, Fugue, Passacaglia (which he, like Henry Purcell, called Chaconne), and the Fantasy, or Variations. The middle movement of the lively Concerto No. 1 for Piano (1939 - revised 1942) takes the form of a Chaconne, and both outer movements exhibit the moto perpetuo character of Baroque music. The three symphonies (1950, 1959, 1964), like the First Piano Concerto, use imitative forms associated with the Eighteenth, rather than developmental forms associated with the Nineteenth, Century. The prototype of all these works is the remarkable "Symphonic Studies" (1938) for orchestra, premièred at the Warsaw ISCM Festival in 1939. The "Studies" constitute a symphony in all but name, casting the variations-on-a-theme in the form of five large panels that correspond to the movements of a more explicitly sectional work. Thirty years ago, this work appeared on a Lyrita LP. Its dark colors and rather thick chromatic writing fascinated me. Three decades make the chromaticism seem less harsh than it did at the time, but the "Studies" retain their power as a work of extraordinary polyphonic concentration. The final segment is a fugue. It is as convincing a fugue as any composer of the Twentieth Century contrived to write. Truly, Rawthorne's "Symphonic Studies" can rival Schoenberg's "Variations for Orchestra" as a virtuoso display of thematic transformation colored forth in orchestral garb. The "Studies" also takes its place in a flock of British compositions that employ extremely rigorous variation-technique: Sir Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations," Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Tallis Fantasia," Sir Arthur Bliss's "Discourse for Orchestra," and William Walton's "Variations on a Theme by Hindemith." The Cello Concerto (1966) comes from late in Rawsthorne's life. It returns to the darkness and concentration of the "Symphonic Studies" and is one of his thorniest works. For diversion, we also get the charming Oboe Concerto, with strings. Naxos has given us the two Violin Concertos, a disc of chamber works, a disc of string-orchestra works, and now this first-rate coupling of the "Studies" and the Cello Concerto. I do hope that they provide us with the three symphonies, with the three piano concertos (one of them, the last, for two pianos), and with the three cantatas - "Medieval Diptych," "Carmen Vitale," and "The God in the Cave." At the asking price, it would be a shame to pass this up.
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All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.The composer Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971) trained as a dentist before he turned to music, and there is something in his output reminiscent of surgery. Anguish, sorrow, and relief infuse his works, of which three are presented here. The best of them is the Symphonic Studies of 1939, which was his first big international success. Here, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under David Lloyd-Jones grinds out its whining, drooping, chromatic theme in a one-movement sequence of variations that are almost filmic in their abruptness and color. The Oboe Concerto of 1947 is a more modest work exploiting the plaintive and moody tone of the instrument until the last movement, which is as improbably lighthearted as a dose of laughing gas. Soloist Stéphane Rancourt plays with prominent exuberance. The Cello Concerto of 1966 is the least appealing work, although it is given star billing on the CD cover. Gloom pervades the first movement, a sinister ticking motif the second, and a somewhat ponderous and elderly tread the finale. Soloist Alexander Baillie does his best against heavy odds. His cadenza is poetic until the triangle enters ringing like a quiz show bell telling him he has run out of time. --Rick Jones
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