British Tone Poems Vol.1

[Alan Howe]

...forthcoming from Chandos:
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2010939

FREDERIC AUSTIN: Spring - Symphonic Rhapsody (1902-7)
WILLIAM ALWYN: Blackdown - A Tone Poem from the Surrey Hills (1926)
SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK: The Witch of Atlas (1902)
IVOR GURNEY: A Gloucestershire Rhapsody (1919-21)
HENRY BALFOUR GARDINER: A Berkshire Idyll (1913)
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Solent - Impression for Orchestra (1902-03)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Rumon Gamba

[semloh]

Oh, now that is a disc worth having! 

[Gareth Vaughan]

Well, yes. Up to a point. Only the Balfour Gardiner has not been recorded before and I do have all the others in earlier (and very good) recordings. But for those who don't this will almost certainly be an enticing prospect.

[TerraEpon]

Considering the previous two British Overtures CDs, I'm sure this one will be just as enjoyable as those. I don't believe I have anything but the Bantock (not even the Vaughan Williams) so....

[Gareth Vaughan]

I am sure Gamba will deliver the goods.

[Jimfin]

This will be at least the third recording of the Austin, I believe. But it is quite a fine piece.

[eschiss1]

There's a new recording of Solent in a violin/piano version out, I believe? or that may be a new digital issue of a recording that's been out awhile. I'm not sure, have to double-check...??

[Expi]

interesting compilation

[Ebubu]

"Vol. 1" allows us to believe there'll be a second volume at least.  One more good news !! 

[Gareth Vaughan]

How nice if Vol. 2 were to include something by Holbrooke: the "Wild Fowl Fantaisie" perhaps. Fat chance, methinks.  Bantock's "Macbeth" would be good too. Or something by Joseph Speaight: his family have scores and parts of his surviving orchestral works - which are pitifully few, alas.