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« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2017, 04:25:44 pm » |
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That's great news, thanks! I'm particularly looking forward to a new (stronger than the Somm recording) version of St Pauls Voyage to Melita, a marvellous score... :)
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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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patmos.beje
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« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2017, 07:16:02 am » |
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That's great news, thanks! I'm particularly looking forward to a new (stronger than the Somm recording) version of St Pauls Voyage to Melita, a marvellous score... :)
I agree. A score I have listened to a lot and which I return to at regular intervals. Whatever the Choral Symphony is like, the prospect of a new, hopefully better, version of St. Paul's Voyage to Melita makes the CD a great prospect. ;D
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jimfin
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« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2017, 09:14:26 am » |
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Dyson never fails to please, in my opinion.
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« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2017, 08:14:06 am » |
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relm1
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« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2017, 01:21:55 am » |
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I liked it quite a bit. Looking forward to hearing the full recording.
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patmos.beje
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« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2017, 04:30:50 pm » |
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My copy of the CD arrived on Friday and I have listened to it several times. :D ;D :)
I find the Choral Symphony an attracive piece, effectively constructed and orchestrated, bearing several hallmarks of later Dyson with some lovely lyrical and dramatic moments. A worthwhile addition to the Dyson discography. It does, in my opinion, disclose how much Dyson in his later choral works progressed to a more sophisticated style and a higher level of lyrical inventiveness and dramatic impact.
Much as I am pleased to have the Choral Symphony, what I am likely to return to more often is St Paul's Voyage to Melita in a fine recording which, for me, accentuates its merits to a greater degree than the two previous performances I have. I would struggle to name my three favourite Dyson works. However, in addition to The Canterbury Pilgrims, St Paul's Voyage to Melita would be guaranteed a place.
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« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2017, 08:35:58 pm » |
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Yes, I think that I agree with the general thrust of your assessment. The Choral Symphony is certainly attractive but it does not match the composer's later, more mature choral works. To argue, as Paul Spicer does in the cd booklet notes, that it could be an equal and alternative to the Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony is I think a little exaggerated. Worth hearing certainly but Dyson himself clearly had a higher estimate of his later music and was right to do so.
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patmos.beje
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« Reply #11 on: November 16, 2017, 12:21:03 am » |
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Yes, I think that I agree with the general thrust of your assessment. The Choral Symphony is certainly attractive but it does not match the composer's later, more mature choral works. To argue, as Paul Spicer does in the cd booklet notes, that it could be an equal and alternative to the Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony is I think a little exaggerated. Worth hearing certainly but Dyson himself clearly had a higher estimate of his later music and was right to do so.
I thought Spicer's comparison to the Sea Symphony very exaggerated. I don't view the Choral Symphony as comparable in its melodic or dramatic quality.
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