New Music Albums: MACDOWELL - ORCHESTRAL WORKS, VOL. 1 (Xiayin Wang, BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson)

Artist:
Xiayin Wang
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
61:00

Record Label:
Chandos

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
December 6, 2024

"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

Purchasing Links

Buy the CD from Amazon •

Buy the MP3 from Amazon •

Buy the Album from Apple Music •

Product Description: Edward MacDowell was the most highly regarded American composer of his generation, and the first to acquire a truly international reputation. Born in New York, he briefly studied piano as a teenager at the Paris Conservatoire, but quickly left to explore what he regarded as the more congenial musical environment in Germany. He studied piano and composition in Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, and then Frankfurt. After graduating in 1880, he remained in Germany for four years, before returning home, first to Boston, for eight years, and then finally to New York where he became Columbia University's first Professor of Music. The various romantic influences that shaped the style of the First Concerto include the music of Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, and Grieg, whilst the technical demands on the soloist reveal MacDowell's prowess as a pianist. MacDowell's enthusiasm for the symphonic poem is reflected here by the inclusion of Lancelot und Elaine and Lamia. The former was inspired by the Arthurian legend as told by Tennyson in his Idylls of the King. The work is extremely narrative, and employs Wagnerian Leitmotifs to depict each of the characters. Lamia, written some two years later and based on the poem by John Keats, was neither published nor performed in the composer's lifetime. MacDowell had planned another symphonic poem, based on the French mediaeval tale La Chanson de Roland, but the work was never completed, and the two fragments included here are all that remain. Woodland Sketches, a set of ten piano miniatures, were inspired by the idyllic environment of the MacDowells' farm, in New Hampshire. The first of these - 'To a Wild Rose' - is by far the composer's most famous piece, and made MacDowell a household name in both America and Europe.

TRACK LIST:

1 . Lancelot and Elaine, Op. 25 . BBC Philharmonic & John Wilson (13:53)

2 . Piano Concerto No. 1 .in A Minor, Op. 15: I. Maestoso - Allegro con fuoco (09:57)

3 . Piano Concerto No. 1 .in A Minor, Op. 15: II. Andante tranquillo (07:07)

4 . Piano Concerto No. 1 .in A Minor, Op. 15: III. Presto (07:10)

5 . ie Sarazenen & Die schöne Aldâ, Op. 30: No. 1, Die Sarazenen BBC Philharmonic & John Wilson (03:16)

6 . ie Sarazenen & Die schöne Aldâ, Op. 30: No. 2, Die schöne Aldâ BBC Philharmonic & John Wilson (05:03)

7 . 10 .Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: No. 1, To a Wild Rose (Arr. for String Orchestra by Victor Herbert) BBC Philharmonic & John Wilson (02:04)

11 .Lamia, Op. 29 . BBC Philharmonic & John Wilson (12:31)

Macdowell Orchestral Works Vol 1 Xiayin Wang

OTHER ALBUM RELEASES:

Saturday, January 25, 2025

New Music Albums: MACDOWELL - ORCHESTRAL WORKS, VOL. 1 (Xiayin Wang, BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson)

Purchasing Links

TRACK LIST:

No comments:

Post a Comment