New Duttons on the way

[Dundonnell]

Dutton say that their new releases should be available next week...

Just click , which is just what I am doing right now.

Dutton ditto

[Alan Howe]

Perhaps my call prompted them to start next week this week!

[Dundonnell]

They are watching us!

[Gareth Vaughan]

I am reliably informed that the Dutton CD of music by Godard is selling very well. So well, in fact, that they may consider doing another CD of his music, possibly including the 2nd PC.

[mbhaub]

If Dutton is looking for more British music to record, Dan Godfrey was quite the arranger. Boosey once published a transcription of Beethoven's Fifth for wind band that Godfrey did  --  he even added bass drum and cymbal parts! There's a vast amount of British band music that really needs a champion. Chandos did a superb job with the brass band music, and now let's have the full band stuff. I am very excited and anxious about the new Converse disk. His Mystic Trumpeter is one of my absolute favorite orchestral works. Thrilling music. I hope the new disk offers similar discoveries.

[albion]

According to the blurb, Dutton Epoch's pioneering Holbrooke series reaches its third volume -

if multi-composer discs are counted, as they seem to be with the Stanley Bate series (of which the forthcoming volume is described as being the fourth) then is this not in fact also the fourth Holbrooke?

 

A search on Dutton's site brings up no reference to the first disc pictured above, so the deletion axe is perhaps the explanation ....

[albion]

(in a hushed undertone)

Goodness me -

     Why, what was that?

Silent be,

     'Twas not the cat!




Something fell

     Upon the mat,

Postmarked Watford,

     Fancy that ...

[albion]

Bate's Piano Concerto No.2 is given a cracking performance by Victor Sangiorgio under Martin Yates - and clearly benefits from being taken overall at a slightly less frenetic speed than the composer's impetuous (albeit exhilarating) rendition.

[Dundonnell]

Lucky you

The post is brought to Scotland by horse and cart....and the horses are lame

[albion]

The post is brought to Scotland by horse and cart....and the horses are lame

The prodigious weight of the CDs on the cart has caused it to roll out of the picture stage left ......

[Dundonnell]

Probably

[Alan Howe]

Well, the Benjamin CD contains some very fine music from a gifted composer. The VC is a fascinating piece, with some very beautiful and exciting writing indeed for both orchestra and soloist. Its main drawback, it seems to me, is its lack of truly memorable themes, but we must grateful to Dutton for rescuing such a fine work.

[patmos.beje]

I have been listening to the Benjamin Violin Concerto quite frequently since I acquired two radio broadcast versions of it last year.  The more acquainted one becomes with it the more memorable its thematic material.  The digital recording of the Dutton CD enables one to appreciate the marvellous orchestration.  The Romantic Fantasy is as fine a recording as the two available alternatives.  The Viola Concerto (the Sonata in its orchestral version) is a great piece disclosing subtleties and exciting climaxes perhaps not as evident in the version with piano.  What a marvellous disc and thanks to Dutton for releasing it.

[Dundonnell]

Just finished listening for the second time to the new cd of Tone Poems by Frederick Converse

I am very taken with his American Sketches: Symphonic Suite for orchestra Rich, confident, colourful scoring and a glorious final movement "Bright Angel Trail: A Legend of the Grand Canyon of Arizona" which has a marvellous use of the organ to underpin the splendour

I really can't remember the previous Naxos disc of tone poems making the same impact as the new Dutton. Warmly recommended for some splendid American Romanticism

[Dundonnell]

I have been listening to the Benjamin Violin Concerto quite frequently since I acquired two radio broadcast versions of it last year.  The more acquainted one becomes with it the more memorable its thematic material.  The digital recording of the Dutton CD enables one to appreciate the marvellous orchestration.  The Romantic Fantasy is as fine a recording as the two available alternatives.  The Viola Concerto (the Sonata in its orchestral version) is a great piece disclosing subtleties and exciting climaxes perhaps not as evident in the version with piano.  What a marvellous disc and thanks to Dutton for releasing it.

Very, very impressed by the Romantic Fantasy First impressions of the Violin Concerto were less favourable but then I like my music serious and darker