Parry from Järvi/Chandos

[Alan Howe]

More evidence of Järvi's catholic tastes!
http://www.mdt.co.uk/parry-orchestral-and-choral-works-wales-neeme-jarvi-chandos-records.html

[edurban]

Seems like ages since we had a big Parry disc.  Very nice.

David

[semloh]

If you enter Parry as a search term in Amazon music you get 623 hits, and yet there are many great, unsung British composers and choral works still awaiting a recording. So, although I love Parry's music I would rather Chandos - and the wonderful Neeme Järvi - directed their efforts elsewhere.
Just a personal opinion, you understand. 

[FBerwald]

I completely understand. Cliffe's Symphony No.2 would have been something, or maybe the symphonies of Cowen!

[Alan Howe]

I agree. However, it was the fact that Järvi is conducting that prompted my post. Something to celebrate, methinks, that a world-renowned foreign conductor should record Parry!

[semloh]

Oh yes, I do agree, Alan.

I think it bespeaks the recognition that has finally returned to Parry, and is testament to Järvi's breadth of vision as a conductor. Again just a personal opinion, but I think an ability to maintain standards and yet diversify is a mark of a great conductor.

[Martin Eastick]

I presume the Magnificat included on this recording IS the one featured in the BBC presentation - it seemed to provoke quite a lot of interest at the time of broadcast.

[Jimfin]

I think Parry is still worthy of support as an unsung: I bet about 610 of those 623 hits are recordings of "Jerusalem", "I was glad" or perhaps "Songs of Farewell". I am still waiting for "A Vision of Life", "Saul" and "Judith", to mention just a few. Though Stanford's operas or Cowen's remaining symphonies would have me in an even more excited mood!

[eschiss1]

Also glad to see a rare appearance of a Parry chamber work (his brief 1886 intermezzi - not published until 1950 , I think - for string trio) in a NYC concert this  season.

[giles.enders]

Sadly Parry's 'Job' did not sell well.  It was a good recording.

[Jimfin]

I have to admit that for years I didn't think much of 'Job' after buying it, and thought GBS had been right. But recently I have really learned to love it and am convinced that it was a huge influence on Elgar: the Lamentation of Job is surely a prefiguring of Judas' big suicide solo in 'The Apostles'. And the Shepherd Boy's song reminds me strongly of the boy in VW's "Pilgrim's Progress"

[Biarent]

Does anyone think Jarvi will record Parry's wonderful Fifth Symphony?  It is my second favorite English symphony second only to the Elgar A-flat.

[eschiss1]

Doesn't seem to be in his concert schedule, anyway (the only Parry symphony I see just offhand in the 2012/2013 seasons was symphony no.3 in June 2012 conducted by John Andrews in Dorchester-on-Thames.)

[JeremyMHolmes]

According to this month's Gramophone, there's more choral Parry on the way, this time on period instruments, although it's not clear whether there will be any rarities committed to disc - "I Was Glad and Jerusalem alongside other coronation music by Parry and his colleague Charles Villiers Stanford" is as much detail as we have.

[Jimfin]

I've now bought the new Jarvi and I'm extremely impressed. Short these pieces may be, but they are exquisite. The Magnificat is a real find, and I like Parry's understated orchestration of 'Jerusalem'. Jarvi seems to bring that little bit of energy to Parry that he perhaps needs. More please!