Robin Orr: Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths
Genre: Classical
Catalogue Number: GMCD 7196
Label: Guild
Released: 2000
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Issued to mark Robin Orr's 90th birthday this album offers a fine selection of music from the Scottish composer.
"This intelligently planned CD has much to offer. It opens with a spirited account of the brilliant Italian Overture...The Rhapsody for String Orchestra is yet another fine work in that long list of beautifully crafted string works by British composers who, from Elgar onward, have always written most brilliantly and most efficiently for strings...The other works in this release are both written for mezzo-soprano and strings...In short a well-planned, beautifully played and richly deserved tribute to a distinguished composer who certainly merits wider recognition." Hubet Calot
The Northern Sinfonia is conduted by Howard Griffiths . With Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano).
Tracklist
- Italian Overture for wind, strings, and harpsichord
- From the Book of Philip Sparrow for mezzo soprano and strings
- When I remember again - Largo
- It was so pretty a fool - Moderato; scherzando
- Vengeance I ask and cry - Allegro; feroce
- And now the dark couldy night - Largo
- Rhapsody for string orchestra
- Journeys and Places for mezzo soprano and string orchestra
Other items featuring the music of Robin Orr
- Robin Orr : From The Book Of Philip Sparrow. Vocal accompanied music by Robin Orr, written in 1969. (Score)
- Robin Orr: Hermiston. Theatre opera music by Robin Orr, written in 1975. (Score)
- Robin Orr : Toccata Alla Marcia. Keyboard music by Robin Orr, written in 1937. (Score)
- Robin Orr: Two Pieces For Piano. Keyboard music by Robin Orr, written in 1940. (Score)
- Robin Orr: O Gracious Light. Unaccompanied choral sacred music by Robin Orr, written in 1999. (Score)
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