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George Dyson on Naxos

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« on: November 07, 2016, 10:38:05 pm »

According to the Dyson Trust:

GEORGE DYSON
The Bach Choir conducted by David Hill will record Dyson's early Choral Symphony together with his colourful score of St. Paul's Voyage to Melita  with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for Naxos. It is an exciting prospect to have the unknown Choral Symphony available on disc together with a much needed new recording of St Paul's Voyage. The Choral Symphony was discovered by Paul Spicer at the Bodleian Library during his researches for Dyson's biography and was first performed in St. John's Smith Square to great acclaim.

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« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2016, 11:18:16 pm »

I could find very little about this Choral Symphony on the Dyson Trust website (they complete list of works has not been updated since well before the discovery in Oxford) but I found this on the University of Durham site.

https://www.dur.ac.uk/music/about/news/?itemno=20375

Dyson was an excellent composer and it will indeed be exciting to look forward to this piece. I don't know how long it is ("St. Paul's Voyage to Melita" is 30 minutes in length) but since we are told that it is in four movements it is clearly a work of some substance.

Thanks for the heads-up :)
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« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2016, 11:22:01 pm »

I am not familiar with his music.  How would you describe it?
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« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2016, 11:22:19 pm »

The work is 40 minutes in duration.

http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_concert_review.php?id=11834
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« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2016, 04:24:47 pm »

I love Dyson's Symphony in G, especially the final movement, and have both the Chandos and Naxos versions.  I listen to 'St. Paul's Voyage' at regular intervals and as much as I would listen to 'The Canterbury Pilgrims', 'Nebuchadnezzar' and the final of 'Quo Vadis'.

Whilst, being an early piece, my expectations of the Choral Symphony are limited, the new Naxos CD is a definite buy when it comes out. ::)  [I have since read Dundonnell's links and the work looks an intriguing prospect].

I was put off Dyson when I purchased his Violin Concerto in the mid-1990s, although I subsequently came to admire the work.  I was totally won over by 'The Canterbury Pilgrims' and, more slowly, by 'In Honour of the City'.  I agree that Dyson is an excellent composer. ;D








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« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2016, 04:31:26 pm »

I am not familiar with his music.  How would you describe it?

The linked review should give you an idea. I suppose "early Vaughan Williams" is what one might (crudely) expect of the Dyson Choral Symphony.
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« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2016, 12:15:38 pm »

I always welcome new Dyson, and 'early VW' sounds good to me! The Violin Concerto is one of my favourite pieces of all time, certainly my favourite in that genre.
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