Dundonnell
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« on: November 04, 2012, 02:04:22 am » |
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I was recently asked to suggest a violin concerto as a possible coupling for a projected recording of a hitherto unrecorded concerto. So..........
THE RECORDED:
Sir Alexander Mackenzie(1847-1935): Hyperion
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford(1852-1924): No.1: Hyperion
Frederic Cliffe(1857-1931): Hyperion Sir Edward Elgar(1857-1934): many recordings
Frederick Delius(1862-1934):many recordings
Sir Arthur Somervell(1863-1937):Hyperion
Ralph Vaughan Williams(1872-1958): Concerto Accademico: many recordings
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor(1875-1912):Lyrita, Avie and Hyperion
Havergal Brian(1876-1972): Naxos, Dutton and Klassic Haus restoration
Cyril Scott(1879-1971):Chandos
Sir Hamilton Harty(1879-1941):Chandos
Sir George Dyson(1883-1964):Chandos
Sir Arnold Bax(1883-1953):Dutton and Chandos
York Bowen(1884-1961):Dutton
Sir Arthur Bliss(1891-1975):Beulah/Carlton BBC Radio Classics and Chandos
Ernest J. Moeran(1894-1950):Symposium, Divine Art, Lyrita and Chandos
Alan Bush(1900-95):Claudio
Edmund Rubbra(1901-86):Conifer, Unicorn and Naxos
Gerald Finzi(1901-56): Chandos
Sir William Walton(1902-83):many recordings
Sir Lennox Berkeley(1903-89):EMI
Alan Rawsthorne(1905-71):Nos. 1 and 2: Carlton BBC Radio Classics and Naxos
William Alwyn(1905-85):Chandos and Naxos
Thomas B. Pitfield(1903-99):Concerto Lirico: Dutton.
Benjamin Frankel(1906-73):CPO George Lloyd(1913-98):Nos. 1 and 2: Albany
Benjamin Britten(1913-76):many recordings
Bernard Stevens(1916-83):Meridian
Richard Arnell(1917-2009):Violin Concerto in One Movement: Dutton; Concerto Capriccioso: Dutton
Peter Racine Fricker(1920-90):No.1: Lyrita
Iain Hamilton(1922-2000):No.1: EMI
John Veale(1922-2006):Chandos
Gerard Schurmann(1924): Chandos
Thomas Wilson(1927-2001):National Youth Orchestra of Scotland cd
Christopher Headington(1930-96); ASV
Hugh Wood(1932-):No.1: NMC
Alexander Goehr(1932-): EMI
David Morgan(1933-88):Lyrita
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies(1934-):No.1: Sony
Nicholas Maw(1935-2009):Sony
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett(1936-):Koch
David Blake(1936):NMC
Howard Blake(1938-):ASV
David Matthews(1943-):Nos. 1 and 2: Dutton (46)
THE UNRECORDED:
Group 1:
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford:(1852-1924):Violin Concerto in D major(1875) Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor(1918;orchestrated by Jeremy Dibble)
Joseph Holbrooke(1878-1958):Violin Concerto “The Grasshopper”(1909-28)
Sir Eugene Goossens(1893-1962):Phantasy Concerto(1948)
Gordon Jacob(1895-1984):Violin Concerto(1953)
Robin Milford(1903-59): Violin Concerto(1937)
Erik Chisholm(1904-65): Violin Concerto(1950)
Grace Williams(1906-77): Violin Concerto(1950) *
Arnold Cooke(1906-2005): Violin Concerto(1958) *
William Wordsworth(1908-88):Violin Concerto(1955) *
Robert Still(1910-71): Violin Concerto(1969)
Franz Reizenstein(1911-68): Violin Concerto(1952) *
Stanley Bate(1911-59): Violin Concerto No.1(1936-37) Violin Concerto No.2(1943) Violin Concerto No.3(1947-50)
Daniel Jones(1912-93): Violin Concerto(1966) *
Peter Racine Fricker(1920-90):Violin Concerto No.2(Rhapsodia Concertante)(1953-54) *
Ruth Gipps(1921-99): Violin Concerto(1943)
Robert Simpson(1921-97): Violin Concerto(1959) *
Iain Hamilton(1922-2000): Violin Concerto No.2 “Amphion”(1972) *
Arthur Butterworth(1923-): Violin Concerto(1978) *
Wilfred Josephs(1927-97): Violin Concerto(1992)
Ronald Stevenson(1928-): Violin Concerto “The Gypsy”(1977-79)
Alun Hoddinott(1929-2008): Violin Concerto No.1(1960) Violin Concerto No.2 “Mistral”(1995) *
Kenneth Leighton(1929-88): Violin Concerto(1952) *
Hugh Wood(1932-): Violin Concerto No.2(2003-04) *
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies(1934-): Violin Concerto No.2 “Fiddler on the Shore”(2009) *
William Mathias(1934-92): Violin Concerto(1992) *
Gordon Crosse(1937-): Violin Concerto(1969) *
John McCabe(1939-): Violin Concerto No.1 “Sinfonia Concertante”(1959) Violin Concerto No.2(1980) *
James MacMillan(1959-): Violin Concerto(2009) *
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Group 2:
David Wynne(1900-83):Rhapsody Concerto(1950)
Richard Hall(1903-82):Violin Concerto(1939)
Christian Darnton(1905-81): Violin Concerto(c.1930)
Ian Parrott(1916-2012):Miniature Concerto(1945)
Denis ApIvor(1916-2004): Violin Concerto No.1(1950) Violin Concerto No.2(1975)
Malcolm Lipkin(1932-):Violin Concerto No.1(1951-52) Violin Concerto No.2(1960-62) *
David Ellis(1933-):Violin Concerto(1958-60)
Derek Bourgeois(1941-): Violin Concerto(2002)
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Dundonnell
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« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2012, 02:08:03 am » |
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"Piano Concertos sell. Violin Concertos don't!" (Genuine quote from a record company)
You will notice the marked preponderance of recorded violin concertos written by composers of the earlier period of British music of the last 100 years or so ;D
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jimfin
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« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2012, 07:41:50 am » |
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A wonderful list and at least a number of the unrecorded are planned. Could I ask the significance of the two groups of unrecorded? And could we add Frederic Cliffe's glorious concerto to the recorded (and perhaps, from the same disc, D'Erlanger's, though he was only sort-of British)?
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guest54
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« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2012, 11:14:22 am » |
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A few earlier examples, now forgotten forever:
From Who's Who in Music - a biographical record of contemporary musicians (1913):
John Dunn (born 1866 - and died in 1940 according to Percy Scholes): Was the first artist to introduce the Tschaikovsky concerto in London. Has written a violin concerto (unpublished), and some violin pieces and cadenzas to the Beethoven concerto, etc.
And from Brown and Stratton's British Musical Biography (1897):
Richard Cudmore (1787 to 1840): Works. — The Martyr of Antioch, oratorio; Concertos for the violin; Concertos for the pf.; Songs, etc.
Henry Farmer (1819 to 1891): His works comprised a Mass in B flat, published in 1844; a violin concerto, performed at Nottingham, November 25, 1841; other concertos and violin pieces; Overture, "Calypso," Nottingham, 1845.
Arthur Herbert Jackson (1852 to 1881): Works. — Choral ballad, Lord Ullin's daughter; Jason and the golden fleece, cantata (MS.); The bride of Abydos, overture; Intermezzo for orch.; Violin concerto; Ballet suite for orch.; Concerto for pf. and orch.; Magnificat for chorus and orch.; Two masses for male voices; Pf. music; Songs and partsongs.
Thomas Powell (1776 to circa 1861): Composed 15 concertos for violin and orchestra [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]; Three duets for violin and 'cello, op. 1; Three duets for 2 'cellos, op. 2; Capriccio for 'cello, op. 24; Introduction and Fugue for organ; Three grand Sonatas for pf. and violin [1825]; Overtures for orchestra, pf. arrangements, etc.
Not one of their names appears in Grove's Dictionary.
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jimfin
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« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2012, 11:34:43 am » |
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Thank you Sydney! Amazing knowledge. After someone else posted about different settings of 'The Golden Legend', nice to see that Sullivan's other choral masterpiece had a brother. What are the chances that any of those concertos even survive?
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Elroel
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« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2012, 12:41:33 pm » |
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On Youtube you'll find Frédéric d' Erlanger's Violin Concerto in D minor, op 17
Philippe Graffin, violin
David Lloyd-Jones BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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patmos.beje
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« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2012, 01:37:30 pm » |
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Yesterday my copy of the new Dutton CD of English Music for Viola and Orchestra arrived through my letter box. Although I have listened to the new recording of the Bax Phantasy from 1920 over and over again and have not yet listened to the CD in its entirety, I have listened several times to 'Ellingham Marshes' for Viola and Orchestra by Theodore Holland and intend to listen to it many more times - it is striking pastoral piece.
According to the sleeve notes Holland also wrote a Violin Concerto in one movement which is also an unrecorded piece. The Violin Concerto is also referred to in a music web article accessible on the following link: http://www.musicweb-international.com/garlands/anson.htm
Beyond the above I can find nothing else about the concerto or the date it was composed or performed (if ever!).
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guest54
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« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2012, 02:08:58 pm » |
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. . . nice to see that Sullivan's other choral masterpiece had a brother. . . . I confess I had to look that up. "The Martyr of Antioch" isn't it?
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Albion
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« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2012, 04:36:37 pm » |
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. . . nice to see that Sullivan's other choral masterpiece had a brother. . . . I confess I had to look that up. "The Martyr of Antioch" isn't it? Yes, it certainly is! The only commercial recording of the work (a performance I attended in Buxton back in 2000) was dealt a deadly blow by the under-nourished chorus ... ::) ... and the disc (Symposium 1289) has since dropped out of the catalogue. A fully professional recording of The Martyr of Antioch is long-overdue - perhaps it might be the next Sullivan Society project following next-year's The Beauty Stone. :)
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"A piece is worth your attention, and is itself for you praiseworthy, if it makes you feel you have not wasted your time over it." (Sydney Grew, 1922)
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jimfin
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« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2012, 11:55:54 pm » |
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Sorry, yes, I did mean 'The Martyr of Antioch'. And I second Albion's words. One of the most beautiful choral works of the 19th century in my opinion, though sadly it has only bee based on that unsatisfactory recording and a handful of recorded excerpts. But We are now far from Violin Concertos, especially as Sullivan never wrote one. His so-called successor, Edward German did consider writing one, if that helps...
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Dundonnell
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« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2012, 12:00:45 am » |
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A wonderful list and at least a number of the unrecorded are planned. Could I ask the significance of the two groups of unrecorded? And could we add Frederic Cliffe's glorious concerto to the recorded (and perhaps, from the same disc, D'Erlanger's, though he was only sort-of British)?
I have added the Cliffe and also Robin Milford's 1937 Violin Concerto. The second group of unrecorded concertos are those by rather less well-known composers. Whilst I would like to see them all recorded that would not be in preference to those in the first group which all, definitely in my opinion, should be given a chance :)
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Dundonnell
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« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2012, 03:42:46 pm » |
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I am adding-yet again- an asterisk * to indicate that the Concerto in question IS available to us as a Download :)
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Grandenorm
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« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2012, 01:26:39 am » |
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Walter Gaze Cooper wrote a Violin Concerto, which was broadcast by the BBC, then quickly fell into obscurity. I'm afraid I haven't seen the score so can't comment on its quality.
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ahinton
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« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2012, 09:41:09 am » |
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Walter Gaze Cooper wrote a Violin Concerto, which was broadcast by the BBC, then quickly fell into obscurity. I'm afraid I haven't seen the score so can't comment on its quality. Almost the same could be said of Ronald Smith (1922-2004)...
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Dundonnell
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« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2012, 04:38:17 pm » |
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Of the unrecorded Concertos listed above I know that we can expect the Joseph Holbrooke from cpo at some point and I understand that there may be some interest from a company in recording the Erik Chisholm :)
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