missgestalteten Sklaven, sind der Partitur vorangestellt: John Barbirolli hatte das Werk in Auftrag gegeben und gab zusammen mit dem Hallé Orchestra am 25. März 1953 in … the Isle is full of noises, der Free Trade Hall, Manchester die Uraufführung. ALWYN Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not: Der Festival March ist ein Auftragswerk des Arts Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Council of Great Britain für das Festival of Britain 1951. Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, Es ist ein Marsch in der besten britischen Tradition von Elizabethan Dances That if I wak’d after long sleep, Elgar und Walton. Auf die Eröffnungsfanfare folgt ein Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming, ausgedehntes Thema der Violinen und Hörner, begleitet Oboe Concerto • Aphrodite in Aulis The clouds methought would open, and show riches vom übrigen Orchester. Nach einer Klimax des vollen Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak’d Orchesters erstirbt die Musik, um dem noblen Trio Platz I cried to dream again. zu machen, vorgetragen von den Violinen und Celli im Jonathan Small, Oboe Das atmosphärische Stück beginnt sehr leise mit Unisono. Das Trio wird Grandioso vom ganzen Orchester murmelnden Streichern – später begleitet von Harfe, wiederholt, wonach eine kurze Über-gangspassage zum Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Holz- und Blechbläsern –, die das Anlaufen der Wellen Marschthema zurückführt. Dieses erreicht einen gegen die Küste vorstellen. Ein Melodiefragment des Höhepunkt mit dem fortissimo wieder-kehrenden Trio und David Lloyd-Jones Englischhorns wird von den anderen Instrumenten im bringt das Werk zu einem strahlenden Abschluss. Die Wechsel durchgeführt. Es folgt ein lebhafterer Abschnitt, Premiere am 21. Mai 1951 in der Royal Festival Hall gab und nach einer unheimlichen Passage der Solovioline, das London Philharmonic Orchestra unter Sir Malcolm begleitet von sanften Bläserakkorden und der Harfe, wird Sargent. ein Höhepunkt mit einer breiten Ausführung des Themas, auf das immer wieder hingedeutet worden ist, erreicht. Andrew Peter Knowles Die Musik stirbt dahin und endet so leise, wie sie begann. Deutsche Fassung: Thomas Theise

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PMS PMS 000 000 0 William Alwyn (1905–1985) Consort aus Gamben und Blockflöten, wobei die Naturvision hinein. Diese erste Einspielung überhaupt Elizabethan Dances • Oboe Concerto • Aphrodite in Aulis Streicher die Hauptidee vortragen, ausgeschmückt von gibt die Möglichkeit, ein Stück zu hören, das siebzig Jahre Flöten, Klarinetten und Harfe. Der sechste Tanz, der das nicht erklungen ist. Es ist nicht Alwyns erstes von der The orchestral music of William Alwyn spans a period of able to hear the result, an event which he always looked ganze Orchester einbezieht, wechselt zwischen Hornpipe Dichtung William Blakes inspiriertes Werk, hatte er doch fifty years from the Peter Pan Suite of 1923 to the Fifth forward to. Amongst Alwyn’s film scores are some classic und Rumba und führt den Zyklus zu einem lebhaft- bereits 1931 Gesangsvertonungen (mit Streichquartett Symphony (Hydriotaphia) of 1973 and as such forms a British films, including The Way Ahead, Desert Victory, jubilierenden Ende. oder Klavier) aus den Songs of Innocence/Songs of large and important part of his compositional output. Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The History of Mr Polly, The Innumerable Dance – An English Overture wurde Experience vorgenommen. Zwi-schen 1933 und 1938 Amongst his works in the genre are five symphonies, The Winslow Boy, The Rake’s Progress, The Rocking im November 1933 vollendet und erlebte seine erste arbeitete er schließlich an der Vertonung von Teil 1 von concertos for flute, violin, oboe, harp, piano and many Horse Winner and A Night To Remember. Radioaufführung am 8. Dezember 1935 mit dem BBC Blakes Marriage of Heaven and Hell für Soli, Doppelchor descriptive shorter pieces. In addition to these are four Alwyn’s first major work for orchestra, the brief and Orchestra (section C) unter Aylmer Buesst. Das und großes Orchester. operas, vocal, chamber and instrumental music. He was imaginatively scored Five Preludes, dating from 1927, Standardorchester ist um Celesta und Harfe erweitert, Das Concerto for Oboe, Harp and String Orchestra also a linguist, poet and painter. His mastery of were first performed the same year at the Promenade wodurch das Stück seinen Farbenreichtum erhält. Der entstand 1943/44 in London und Welwyn. Die orchestration is evident in every piece included here and Concerts at Queen’s Hall under Sir Henry Wood and Titel des Werkes entstammt einer Zeile im zweiten Buch Uraufführung gab Evelyn Rothwell, die Ehefrau von John in part comes as a result of an in-sider’s experience. started him on the road to perfecting his orchestral von William Blakes Milton. Der Partitur sind folgende Barbirolli – später ein vehementer Verfechter von Alwyns Alwyn entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1920 at technique. The Elizabethan Dances date from thirty years Zeilen aus dem Poem vorangestellt: Musik –, mit dem London Symphony Orchestra unter the age of fifteen as a flautist (with piano a second later, composed between 1956 and 1957. Although the Basil Cameron bei einem Promenadenkonzert in der instrument) and from 1922 was playing in the Academy BBC had commissioned a work from him for their Light First e’er the morning breaks, Royal Albert Hall am 12. August 1949. Das Werk hat zwei orchestra and later under the baton of Sir Edward Elgar Music Festival of 1957, the idea for the piece had been joy opens in the flowery bosoms, Sätze, die ohne Pause aufeinander folgen: der erste von with the London Symphony Orchestra, where he gained first suggested to him by his friend and publisher Bernard Joy even to tears, which the suns rising dries: pastoral-nostalgischer Stimmung, der zweite ein lebhafter immeasurable knowledge of the orchestra. He spent much de Nevers, director of Alfred Lengnick & Co Ltd. The first the Wild Thyme Tanz, in dem die Hauptidee aus dem ersten Satz gegen time studying the scores of Debussy, Richard Strauss, score bears a dedication to de Nevers. And meadow sweet, downy and soft waving among the Ende wiederkehrt. Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Szymanowski. The latter The BBC Concert Orchestra gave the première of the reeds, Aphrodite in Aulis – An Eclogue for small orchestra three had been introduced to him by his composition work at the Royal Festival Hall under the direction of the Light springing in the air, lead the sweet dance; wurde im Juni 1932 in London vollendet. Die Inspiration teacher John B. McEwen (himself a composer of a large composer on 6th July 1957. Scored for a standard size they wake für das Werk kam aus dem gleichnamigen Roman des number of works) and thus opened up a new colourful orchestra with the additional percussion instruments of The honeysuckle sleeping on the oak, irischen Schriftstellers George Moore (1852–1933), der world of possibilities to the young composer. Further castanets, wood blocks, maracas and also harp and celesta, the flaunting beauty 1930 erstmals erschienen war. Es handelt sich um eine experience was gained from his involvement with writing the six dances alternate the times of Elizabeth I and Revels along upon the wind; … every tree historische Romanze über zwei Brüder – Thrasillos, einen music for the cinema, composing some two hundred film Elizabeth II, thus providing contrasting moods. The first And flower and herb soon fill the air with an Architekten, und Rhesos, einen Bildhauer – in der Zeit scores between 1936 and 1963 for both documentary and dance portrays the pipes and tabors of Elizabeth I innumerable dance, des Phidias. Rhesos verliebt sich in Earine, weil sie das feature films. Here he was able to experiment to the full employing the full orchestra. The second is a beguiling Yet all in order sweet and lovely. reizvollste Hinterteil hat, passend für seine Skulptur der on the many varied subjects presented to him for a suitable lilting waltz with the main theme announced by the Aphrodite. Diese kurze, köstliche Miniatur für Flöte, zwei musical background to enhance the pictures’ message and strings. The third is a Morris Dance with the main theme Als echte Tondichtung – wenn auch nicht dem Namen Hörner, Harfe und Streicher erfasst die Vision der mood. It was the only medium in which he could see very first stated by a solo bassoon, which is then taken up by nach –, ist dieses Werk eine vollendete Aphrodite vollkommen. Es handelt sich wiederum um die quickly whether he had been successful in trying out some the flute before finally being presented by the strings. The Heraufbeschwörung des Frühlings. Vom leisen Beginn erste Aufnahme nach über siebzig Jahren. new way and or idea of scoring. A film score had to be fourth is a somewhat ‘bluesy’ dance with the main theme mit geteilten Tremolo-Streichern, gefolgt von ge- Das Symphonic Prelude „The Magic Island“ entstand provided fairly quickly, as it was nearly always the last announced by the violins and later presented by the full dämpften Hörnern, über die allmähliche Hinzufügung 1952 und leitet sich von Shakespeares Der Sturm her. Die process to be added before the film’s release, and Alwyn orchestra. The fifth, a quiet Pavane, suggests a consort of weiterer Instrumente bis hin zum vollen Orchester erfolgt Zauberinsel ist jene des Prospero, des rechtmäßigen threw himself into the task wholeheartedly. One week he viols and recorders with the strings carrying the main idea endlich der Sonnenaufgang. Mit dem nun folgenden Herzogs von Mailand. Die berühmten Verse aus dem 2. would be composing the score to the film, the next he was embellished by flutes clarinets and harp. The sixth, lebhaften Tanz führt Alwyn sogleich in Blakes Akt (Szene 2) über Caliban, einen wilden und

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PMS PMS 000 000 0 William Alwyn (1905–1985) employing the full orchestra, alternates between a for voice some with the accompaniment of string quartet Elizabethan Dances • Oboe Concerto • Aphrodite in Aulis hornpipe and rumba and brings the set to a lively and and others with just piano of the Songs of Innocence and jubilant close. Songs of Experience. Also between 1933 and 1938 he Die Orchestermusik William Alwyns umspannt eine der folgenden konnte er schon das Ergebnis sehen – The Innumerable Dance – An English Overture was worked on setting Part 1 of Blake’s Marriage of Heaven Periode von fünfzig Jahren: von der Peter Pan Suite von darauf freute er sich stets. Zu Alwyns Filmmusiken completed in November 1933 and received its first and Hell for soloists, double chorus and large orchestra. 1923 bis zur Fünften Symphonie (Hydriotaphia) von gehören einige britische Filmklassiker, darunter The Way broadcast performance on 8th December 1935 given by The work still awaits a hearing. 1973; sie stellt einen großen und gewichtigen Teil seines Ahead, Desert Victory, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, the BBC Orchestra (section C) conducted by Aylmer The Concerto for Oboe, Harp and String Orchestra Gesamtwerks dar. Zu ihr gehören unter anderem fünf The History of Mr Polly, The Winslow Boy, The Rake’s Buesst. A standard orchestra is employed with the was composed in London and Welwyn between 1943 and Symphonien, Konzerte für Flöte, Oboe, Harfe und Klavier Progress, The Rocking Horse Winner und A Night To addition of celesta and harp enhancing the colour of the 1944. The first performance was given by Evelyn sowie zahlreiche kleinere Stücke deskriptiven Charakters. Remember. piece. The title of the work is derived from a line of verse Rothwell, the wife of John Barbirolli who was later to Dazu kommen vier Opern, Vokal-, Kam-mer- und Alwyns erstes Hauptwerk für Orchester, die kurzen from the second book of William Blake’s Milton. The become such a champion of Alwyn’s music, with the Instrumentalmusik. Alwyn war zudem Linguist, Poet und und phantasievollen Five Preludes, datiert auf 1927, score is prefaced with the following lines from the poem: London Symphony Orchestra under Basil Cameron at a Maler. Seine meisterhafte Orchestrierung ist in jedem der wurde erstmals im gleichen Jahr bei den Prome- First e’er the morning breaks, Promenade Concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 12th hier enthaltenen Stücke offenkundig – sie verdankt sich nadenkonzerten in der Queen’s Hall unter Sir Henry Wood joy opens in the flowery bosoms, August 1949. There are two movements which follow zum Teil seiner Erfahrung als Orchester-Insider. Im Alter aufgeführt und brachte ihn auf den Weg zur Joy even to tears, which the suns rising dries: without a break, the first pastoral and nostalgic in mood, von 15 Jahren ging er als Flötist – mit Klavier als zweitem Vervollkommnung seiner Orchestertechnik. Die first the Wild Thyme the second a lively dance with the main idea from the first Instrument – an die Royal Academy of Music. Von 1922 Elizabethan Dances sind dreißig Jahre jünger und And meadow sweet, downy and soft waving among the movement returning towards the end of the work. an spielte er im Orchester der Academy und später unter entstanden 1956/57. Obwohl die BBC ein Werk für ihr reeds, Aphrodite in Aulis – An Eclogue for small orchestra Sir Edward Elgar mit dem London Symphony Orchestra, Light Music Festival von 1957 bei ihm in Auftrag gegeben Light springing in the air, lead the sweet dance; was completed in London during June 1932. The wo er unschätzbare Orchestererfahrungen sammelte. Viel hatte, stammt die Idee für das Stück ursprünglich von they wake inspiration for the work comes from the Homeric novel of Zeit verbrachte er mit dem Studium der Partituren von seinem Freund und Verleger Bernard de Nevers, Direktor The honeysuckle sleeping on the oak, the same name by the Irish writer George Moore (1852- Debussy, Richard Strauss, Strawinsky, Schönberg und von Alfred Lengnick & Co Ltd., dem die Partitur the flaunting beauty 1933), first published in 1930. Esther Waters (1894) is Szymanowski. Die letzteren drei hatte ihm sein gewidmet ist. Die Premiere des Werks gab das BBC Revels along upon the wind; … probably his best known novel. The story is an historical Kompositionslehrer John B. McEwen – selbst Kom-ponist Concert Orchestra unter Leitung des Komponisten am 6. every tree romance about two brothers, Thrasillos, an architect, and zahlreicher Werke – nahe gebracht und so dem jungen Juli 1957. Die sechs Tänze beschwören wechselweise die And flower and herb soon fill the air with an Rhesos, a sculptor, in the time of Phidias. Rhesos falls in Komponisten eine neue Welt an Möglichkeiten eröffnet. Zeit Elisabeths I. und Elisabeth II. herauf und liefern so innumerable dance, love with a woman Earine as she has the most desirable Die Komposition von Filmmusik vermittelte ihm weitere unterschiedliche Stimmungen. Sie sind für ein Yet all in order sweet and lovely. rump suitable for his sculpture of Aphrodite. This brief Erfahrungen – von 1936 bis 1963 schrieb er über hundert Standardorchester mit zusätzlichen Schlaginstrumenten – exquisite miniature beautifully scored for flute, two horns, Partituren für Dokumentar- und Spielfilme. Hier konnte er Kastagnetten, Holzblöcken, Maracas – sowie Harfe und A tone poem in all but name this evocatively scored harp and strings, encapsulates the vision of Aphrodite angesichts der Fülle an Themen, mit denen er konfrontiert Celesta ausgelegt. Der erste Tanz porträtiert unter work is the perfect evocation of spring. From the hushed most perfectly. Again, this is a work that has not been wurde, experimentieren, um die Botschaft und die Verwendung des vollen Orchesters die Flöten und opening with tremolando divided strings followed by heard for over seventy years and is here receiving its first Stimmung der Bilder durch einen musikalischen Handtrommeln Elisabeths I. Der zweite ist ein muted horns to the gradual addition of more instruments recording. Hintergrund zu unterstützen. Einzig in diesem Medium verführerisch-trällernder Walzer, dessen Hauptthema die to the full orchestra once the sunrise is reached and the The Symphonic Prelude “The Magic Island” was konnte er sehr schnell sehen, ob ein neuer Weg, den er Streicher vortragen. Der dritte ist ein Morris Dance, lively dance that follows Alwyn immediately draws you composed in 1952 and is derived from Shakespeare’s The beschritten hatte, Erfolg versprach. Ein Filmscore musste dessen Hauptthema zunächst ein Solofagott spielt, bevor into Blake’s vision of nature. Tempest. The Magic Island is that of Prospero, the rightful in der Regel sehr schnell zur Verfügung stehen, da er fast es die Flöte und ab-schließend die Streicher präsentieren. This première recording gives us the chance to hear a Duke of Milan. The famous verse from Act III, Scene 2 of immer als letztes vor der Filmpremiere hinzugefügt Der vierte Tanz ist etwas „bluesig“; sein Hauptthema work that has not been heard for almost seventy years. Caliban, a savage and deformed slave, prefaces the score: wurde. Alwyn stürzte sich mit ganzem Elan in die stellen die Violinen vor, später das volle Orchester. Der This was not Alwyn’s first work to be inspired by the Aufgabe. In der einen Woche komponierte er den Score, in fünfte schließlich, eine ruhige Pavane, suggeriert ein poetry of William Blake as in 1931 he had made settings …the Isle is full of noises,

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PMS PMS 000 000 0 Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not: Hallé Orchestra on 25th March 1953 at the Free Trade Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Hall, Manchester. Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, The Festival March was commissioned by the Arts The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra gives over sixty concerts from September to June in Liverpool’s That if I wak’d after long sleep, Council of Great Britain for the 1951 Festival of Britain. Philharmonic Hall and presents concerts throughout the United Kingdom, in addition to tours abroad. Members of the Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming, This march is in the best English tradition of Elgar and orchestra are involved in a number of innovative community education projects. One of the oldest concert-giving The clouds methought would open, and show riches Walton. After the opening fanfares a broad theme follows organizations in the world, the RLPO dates back to 1840. In 1957 it acquired the title ‘Royal’, and in 1991 it was the Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak’d on the violins and horns, accompanied by the rest of the first organization to be granted the freedom of the City of Liverpool. The first professional conductor of the Liverpool I cried to dream again.” orchestra. After a climax on the full orchestra the music Philharmonic, in 1844, was Jakob Zeugheer, followed by Alfred Mellon, Max Bruch, Charles Hallé, Frederic Hymen dies away to make way for the noble trio presented by Cowen, and Thomas Beecham. In 1942 Malcolm Sargent became resident conductor, followed in 1948 by Hugo This atmospheric piece begins very quietly on unison violins and cellos. This is then repeated Grandioso Rignold as music director. Subsequent incumbents have included Efrem Kurtz and John Pritchard, Walter Weller, David murmuring strings later accompanied by harp, wind, and by the full orchestra, after which a brief linking passage Atherton, Marek Janowski, Libor Pe‰ek, Petr Altrichter and Gerard Schwarz. Vasily Petrenko became Principal brass, which convey the lapping of the waves against the returns us to the opening march theme. This builds to a Conductor in September 2006. shore. A fragmentary melody on the cor anglais appears climax with the trio returning fortissimo, bringing the and is developed by the other instruments in turn. A more work to a resplendent close. The London Philharmonic animated section follows and after a haunting passage on Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent gave the David Lloyd-Jones solo violin accompanied by soft wind chords and harp first performance on 21st May 1951 at the Royal Festival reaches a climax with a broad statement of the theme that Hall. David Lloyd–Jones began his professional career in 1959 on the music staff of the Royal has been hinted at throughout. The music dies away and Opera House, Covent Garden, and soon became much in demand as a freelance conductor ends as quietly as it began. The work was commissioned for orchestral and choral concerts, opera, BBC broadcasts and TV studio opera by John Barbirolli, and first performed by him with the Andrew Peter Knowles productions. He has appeared at the Royal Opera House (Boris Godunov with both Christoff and Ghaiurov), Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera and the Wexford, Cheltenham, Edinburgh and Leeds Festivals, and with the major British orchestras. In 1972 he was appointed Assistant Music Director at English National Opera, and during his time there conducted an extensive repertory which included, in addition to all the standard operas, Die Meistersinger, Katya Kabanova, and the British stage première of Prokofiev’s War and Peace. In 1978, at the invitation of the Arts Council of Great Britain, he founded Jonathan Small a new full-time opera company, Opera North, with its own orchestra, the English Northern Philharmonia, of which he became Artistic Director and Principal Conductor. During his Jonathan Small has been principal oboist of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra since 1984. His aspirations twelve seasons with the company he conducted fifty different new productions, including in oboe playing stem from the expressive flexibility of British artists such as Goossens, Sutcliffe, and Michael The Trojans, Prince Igor, The Midsummer Marriage (Tippett), and the British stage Winfield, his teacher at the Royal College of Music, blended with the richness of tone of the German school as première of Strauss’s Daphne. He also conducted numerous orchestral concerts, including exemplified by the Berlin Philharmonic’s Lothar Koch. His recordings include L’horloge de Flore by Jean Françaix, festival appearances in France and Germany. He has made many successful recordings of British and Russian music, Vaughan Williams’s Oboe Concerto, and Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto. He has performed regularly as a soloist in and has an extensive career in the concert-hall and opera-house that takes him to leading musical centres throughout Europe, including at the Prague Spring Festival, in the United States, China and Australia. In 2001 and 2004 he gave Central Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Israel, Australia, Japan, Canada and the Americas. His highly acclaimed cycle of master-classes and concerts in Beijing, where he is Guest Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music. He teaches Bax’s symphonies and tone poems for Naxos (Gramophone Award) was completed in the autumn of 2003. at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

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PMS PMS 000 000 0 Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not: Hallé Orchestra on 25th March 1953 at the Free Trade Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Hall, Manchester. Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, The Festival March was commissioned by the Arts The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra gives over sixty concerts from September to June in Liverpool’s That if I wak’d after long sleep, Council of Great Britain for the 1951 Festival of Britain. Philharmonic Hall and presents concerts throughout the United Kingdom, in addition to tours abroad. Members of the Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming, This march is in the best English tradition of Elgar and orchestra are involved in a number of innovative community education projects. One of the oldest concert-giving The clouds methought would open, and show riches Walton. After the opening fanfares a broad theme follows organizations in the world, the RLPO dates back to 1840. In 1957 it acquired the title ‘Royal’, and in 1991 it was the Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak’d on the violins and horns, accompanied by the rest of the first organization to be granted the freedom of the City of Liverpool. The first professional conductor of the Liverpool I cried to dream again.” orchestra. After a climax on the full orchestra the music Philharmonic, in 1844, was Jakob Zeugheer, followed by Alfred Mellon, Max Bruch, Charles Hallé, Frederic Hymen dies away to make way for the noble trio presented by Cowen, and Thomas Beecham. In 1942 Malcolm Sargent became resident conductor, followed in 1948 by Hugo This atmospheric piece begins very quietly on unison violins and cellos. This is then repeated Grandioso Rignold as music director. Subsequent incumbents have included Efrem Kurtz and John Pritchard, Walter Weller, David murmuring strings later accompanied by harp, wind, and by the full orchestra, after which a brief linking passage Atherton, Marek Janowski, Libor Pe‰ek, Petr Altrichter and Gerard Schwarz. Vasily Petrenko became Principal brass, which convey the lapping of the waves against the returns us to the opening march theme. This builds to a Conductor in September 2006. shore. A fragmentary melody on the cor anglais appears climax with the trio returning fortissimo, bringing the and is developed by the other instruments in turn. A more work to a resplendent close. The London Philharmonic animated section follows and after a haunting passage on Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent gave the David Lloyd-Jones solo violin accompanied by soft wind chords and harp first performance on 21st May 1951 at the Royal Festival reaches a climax with a broad statement of the theme that Hall. David Lloyd–Jones began his professional career in 1959 on the music staff of the Royal has been hinted at throughout. The music dies away and Opera House, Covent Garden, and soon became much in demand as a freelance conductor ends as quietly as it began. The work was commissioned for orchestral and choral concerts, opera, BBC broadcasts and TV studio opera by John Barbirolli, and first performed by him with the Andrew Peter Knowles productions. He has appeared at the Royal Opera House (Boris Godunov with both Christoff and Ghaiurov), Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera and the Wexford, Cheltenham, Edinburgh and Leeds Festivals, and with the major British orchestras. In 1972 he was appointed Assistant Music Director at English National Opera, and during his time there conducted an extensive repertory which included, in addition to all the standard operas, Die Meistersinger, Katya Kabanova, and the British stage première of Prokofiev’s War and Peace. In 1978, at the invitation of the Arts Council of Great Britain, he founded Jonathan Small a new full-time opera company, Opera North, with its own orchestra, the English Northern Philharmonia, of which he became Artistic Director and Principal Conductor. During his Jonathan Small has been principal oboist of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra since 1984. His aspirations twelve seasons with the company he conducted fifty different new productions, including in oboe playing stem from the expressive flexibility of British artists such as Goossens, Sutcliffe, and Michael The Trojans, Prince Igor, The Midsummer Marriage (Tippett), and the British stage Winfield, his teacher at the Royal College of Music, blended with the richness of tone of the German school as première of Strauss’s Daphne. He also conducted numerous orchestral concerts, including exemplified by the Berlin Philharmonic’s Lothar Koch. His recordings include L’horloge de Flore by Jean Françaix, festival appearances in France and Germany. He has made many successful recordings of British and Russian music, Vaughan Williams’s Oboe Concerto, and Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto. He has performed regularly as a soloist in and has an extensive career in the concert-hall and opera-house that takes him to leading musical centres throughout Europe, including at the Prague Spring Festival, in the United States, China and Australia. In 2001 and 2004 he gave Central Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Israel, Australia, Japan, Canada and the Americas. His highly acclaimed cycle of master-classes and concerts in Beijing, where he is Guest Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music. He teaches Bax’s symphonies and tone poems for Naxos (Gramophone Award) was completed in the autumn of 2003. at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

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PMS PMS 000 000 0 William Alwyn (1905–1985) employing the full orchestra, alternates between a for voice some with the accompaniment of string quartet Elizabethan Dances • Oboe Concerto • Aphrodite in Aulis hornpipe and rumba and brings the set to a lively and and others with just piano of the Songs of Innocence and jubilant close. Songs of Experience. Also between 1933 and 1938 he Die Orchestermusik William Alwyns umspannt eine der folgenden konnte er schon das Ergebnis sehen – The Innumerable Dance – An English Overture was worked on setting Part 1 of Blake’s Marriage of Heaven Periode von fünfzig Jahren: von der Peter Pan Suite von darauf freute er sich stets. Zu Alwyns Filmmusiken completed in November 1933 and received its first and Hell for soloists, double chorus and large orchestra. 1923 bis zur Fünften Symphonie (Hydriotaphia) von gehören einige britische Filmklassiker, darunter The Way broadcast performance on 8th December 1935 given by The work still awaits a hearing. 1973; sie stellt einen großen und gewichtigen Teil seines Ahead, Desert Victory, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, the BBC Orchestra (section C) conducted by Aylmer The Concerto for Oboe, Harp and String Orchestra Gesamtwerks dar. Zu ihr gehören unter anderem fünf The History of Mr Polly, The Winslow Boy, The Rake’s Buesst. A standard orchestra is employed with the was composed in London and Welwyn between 1943 and Symphonien, Konzerte für Flöte, Oboe, Harfe und Klavier Progress, The Rocking Horse Winner und A Night To addition of celesta and harp enhancing the colour of the 1944. The first performance was given by Evelyn sowie zahlreiche kleinere Stücke deskriptiven Charakters. Remember. piece. The title of the work is derived from a line of verse Rothwell, the wife of John Barbirolli who was later to Dazu kommen vier Opern, Vokal-, Kam-mer- und Alwyns erstes Hauptwerk für Orchester, die kurzen from the second book of William Blake’s Milton. The become such a champion of Alwyn’s music, with the Instrumentalmusik. Alwyn war zudem Linguist, Poet und und phantasievollen Five Preludes, datiert auf 1927, score is prefaced with the following lines from the poem: London Symphony Orchestra under Basil Cameron at a Maler. Seine meisterhafte Orchestrierung ist in jedem der wurde erstmals im gleichen Jahr bei den Prome- First e’er the morning breaks, Promenade Concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 12th hier enthaltenen Stücke offenkundig – sie verdankt sich nadenkonzerten in der Queen’s Hall unter Sir Henry Wood joy opens in the flowery bosoms, August 1949. There are two movements which follow zum Teil seiner Erfahrung als Orchester-Insider. Im Alter aufgeführt und brachte ihn auf den Weg zur Joy even to tears, which the suns rising dries: without a break, the first pastoral and nostalgic in mood, von 15 Jahren ging er als Flötist – mit Klavier als zweitem Vervollkommnung seiner Orchestertechnik. Die first the Wild Thyme the second a lively dance with the main idea from the first Instrument – an die Royal Academy of Music. Von 1922 Elizabethan Dances sind dreißig Jahre jünger und And meadow sweet, downy and soft waving among the movement returning towards the end of the work. an spielte er im Orchester der Academy und später unter entstanden 1956/57. Obwohl die BBC ein Werk für ihr reeds, Aphrodite in Aulis – An Eclogue for small orchestra Sir Edward Elgar mit dem London Symphony Orchestra, Light Music Festival von 1957 bei ihm in Auftrag gegeben Light springing in the air, lead the sweet dance; was completed in London during June 1932. The wo er unschätzbare Orchestererfahrungen sammelte. Viel hatte, stammt die Idee für das Stück ursprünglich von they wake inspiration for the work comes from the Homeric novel of Zeit verbrachte er mit dem Studium der Partituren von seinem Freund und Verleger Bernard de Nevers, Direktor The honeysuckle sleeping on the oak, the same name by the Irish writer George Moore (1852- Debussy, Richard Strauss, Strawinsky, Schönberg und von Alfred Lengnick & Co Ltd., dem die Partitur the flaunting beauty 1933), first published in 1930. Esther Waters (1894) is Szymanowski. Die letzteren drei hatte ihm sein gewidmet ist. Die Premiere des Werks gab das BBC Revels along upon the wind; … probably his best known novel. The story is an historical Kompositionslehrer John B. McEwen – selbst Kom-ponist Concert Orchestra unter Leitung des Komponisten am 6. every tree romance about two brothers, Thrasillos, an architect, and zahlreicher Werke – nahe gebracht und so dem jungen Juli 1957. Die sechs Tänze beschwören wechselweise die And flower and herb soon fill the air with an Rhesos, a sculptor, in the time of Phidias. Rhesos falls in Komponisten eine neue Welt an Möglichkeiten eröffnet. Zeit Elisabeths I. und Elisabeth II. herauf und liefern so innumerable dance, love with a woman Earine as she has the most desirable Die Komposition von Filmmusik vermittelte ihm weitere unterschiedliche Stimmungen. Sie sind für ein Yet all in order sweet and lovely. rump suitable for his sculpture of Aphrodite. This brief Erfahrungen – von 1936 bis 1963 schrieb er über hundert Standardorchester mit zusätzlichen Schlaginstrumenten – exquisite miniature beautifully scored for flute, two horns, Partituren für Dokumentar- und Spielfilme. Hier konnte er Kastagnetten, Holzblöcken, Maracas – sowie Harfe und A tone poem in all but name this evocatively scored harp and strings, encapsulates the vision of Aphrodite angesichts der Fülle an Themen, mit denen er konfrontiert Celesta ausgelegt. Der erste Tanz porträtiert unter work is the perfect evocation of spring. From the hushed most perfectly. Again, this is a work that has not been wurde, experimentieren, um die Botschaft und die Verwendung des vollen Orchesters die Flöten und opening with tremolando divided strings followed by heard for over seventy years and is here receiving its first Stimmung der Bilder durch einen musikalischen Handtrommeln Elisabeths I. Der zweite ist ein muted horns to the gradual addition of more instruments recording. Hintergrund zu unterstützen. Einzig in diesem Medium verführerisch-trällernder Walzer, dessen Hauptthema die to the full orchestra once the sunrise is reached and the The Symphonic Prelude “The Magic Island” was konnte er sehr schnell sehen, ob ein neuer Weg, den er Streicher vortragen. Der dritte ist ein Morris Dance, lively dance that follows Alwyn immediately draws you composed in 1952 and is derived from Shakespeare’s The beschritten hatte, Erfolg versprach. Ein Filmscore musste dessen Hauptthema zunächst ein Solofagott spielt, bevor into Blake’s vision of nature. Tempest. The Magic Island is that of Prospero, the rightful in der Regel sehr schnell zur Verfügung stehen, da er fast es die Flöte und ab-schließend die Streicher präsentieren. This première recording gives us the chance to hear a Duke of Milan. The famous verse from Act III, Scene 2 of immer als letztes vor der Filmpremiere hinzugefügt Der vierte Tanz ist etwas „bluesig“; sein Hauptthema work that has not been heard for almost seventy years. Caliban, a savage and deformed slave, prefaces the score: wurde. Alwyn stürzte sich mit ganzem Elan in die stellen die Violinen vor, später das volle Orchester. Der This was not Alwyn’s first work to be inspired by the Aufgabe. In der einen Woche komponierte er den Score, in fünfte schließlich, eine ruhige Pavane, suggeriert ein poetry of William Blake as in 1931 he had made settings …the Isle is full of noises,

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PMS PMS 000 000 0 William Alwyn (1905–1985) Consort aus Gamben und Blockflöten, wobei die Naturvision hinein. Diese erste Einspielung überhaupt Elizabethan Dances • Oboe Concerto • Aphrodite in Aulis Streicher die Hauptidee vortragen, ausgeschmückt von gibt die Möglichkeit, ein Stück zu hören, das siebzig Jahre Flöten, Klarinetten und Harfe. Der sechste Tanz, der das nicht erklungen ist. Es ist nicht Alwyns erstes von der The orchestral music of William Alwyn spans a period of able to hear the result, an event which he always looked ganze Orchester einbezieht, wechselt zwischen Hornpipe Dichtung William Blakes inspiriertes Werk, hatte er doch fifty years from the Peter Pan Suite of 1923 to the Fifth forward to. Amongst Alwyn’s film scores are some classic und Rumba und führt den Zyklus zu einem lebhaft- bereits 1931 Gesangsvertonungen (mit Streichquartett Symphony (Hydriotaphia) of 1973 and as such forms a British films, including The Way Ahead, Desert Victory, jubilierenden Ende. oder Klavier) aus den Songs of Innocence/Songs of large and important part of his compositional output. Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The History of Mr Polly, The Innumerable Dance – An English Overture wurde Experience vorgenommen. Zwi-schen 1933 und 1938 Amongst his works in the genre are five symphonies, The Winslow Boy, The Rake’s Progress, The Rocking im November 1933 vollendet und erlebte seine erste arbeitete er schließlich an der Vertonung von Teil 1 von concertos for flute, violin, oboe, harp, piano and many Horse Winner and A Night To Remember. Radioaufführung am 8. Dezember 1935 mit dem BBC Blakes Marriage of Heaven and Hell für Soli, Doppelchor descriptive shorter pieces. In addition to these are four Alwyn’s first major work for orchestra, the brief and Orchestra (section C) unter Aylmer Buesst. Das und großes Orchester. operas, vocal, chamber and instrumental music. He was imaginatively scored Five Preludes, dating from 1927, Standardorchester ist um Celesta und Harfe erweitert, Das Concerto for Oboe, Harp and String Orchestra also a linguist, poet and painter. His mastery of were first performed the same year at the Promenade wodurch das Stück seinen Farbenreichtum erhält. Der entstand 1943/44 in London und Welwyn. Die orchestration is evident in every piece included here and Concerts at Queen’s Hall under Sir Henry Wood and Titel des Werkes entstammt einer Zeile im zweiten Buch Uraufführung gab Evelyn Rothwell, die Ehefrau von John in part comes as a result of an in-sider’s experience. started him on the road to perfecting his orchestral von William Blakes Milton. Der Partitur sind folgende Barbirolli – später ein vehementer Verfechter von Alwyns Alwyn entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1920 at technique. The Elizabethan Dances date from thirty years Zeilen aus dem Poem vorangestellt: Musik –, mit dem London Symphony Orchestra unter the age of fifteen as a flautist (with piano a second later, composed between 1956 and 1957. Although the Basil Cameron bei einem Promenadenkonzert in der instrument) and from 1922 was playing in the Academy BBC had commissioned a work from him for their Light First e’er the morning breaks, Royal Albert Hall am 12. August 1949. Das Werk hat zwei orchestra and later under the baton of Sir Edward Elgar Music Festival of 1957, the idea for the piece had been joy opens in the flowery bosoms, Sätze, die ohne Pause aufeinander folgen: der erste von with the London Symphony Orchestra, where he gained first suggested to him by his friend and publisher Bernard Joy even to tears, which the suns rising dries: pastoral-nostalgischer Stimmung, der zweite ein lebhafter immeasurable knowledge of the orchestra. He spent much de Nevers, director of Alfred Lengnick & Co Ltd. The first the Wild Thyme Tanz, in dem die Hauptidee aus dem ersten Satz gegen time studying the scores of Debussy, Richard Strauss, score bears a dedication to de Nevers. And meadow sweet, downy and soft waving among the Ende wiederkehrt. Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Szymanowski. The latter The BBC Concert Orchestra gave the première of the reeds, Aphrodite in Aulis – An Eclogue for small orchestra three had been introduced to him by his composition work at the Royal Festival Hall under the direction of the Light springing in the air, lead the sweet dance; wurde im Juni 1932 in London vollendet. Die Inspiration teacher John B. McEwen (himself a composer of a large composer on 6th July 1957. Scored for a standard size they wake für das Werk kam aus dem gleichnamigen Roman des number of works) and thus opened up a new colourful orchestra with the additional percussion instruments of The honeysuckle sleeping on the oak, irischen Schriftstellers George Moore (1852–1933), der world of possibilities to the young composer. Further castanets, wood blocks, maracas and also harp and celesta, the flaunting beauty 1930 erstmals erschienen war. Es handelt sich um eine experience was gained from his involvement with writing the six dances alternate the times of Elizabeth I and Revels along upon the wind; … every tree historische Romanze über zwei Brüder – Thrasillos, einen music for the cinema, composing some two hundred film Elizabeth II, thus providing contrasting moods. The first And flower and herb soon fill the air with an Architekten, und Rhesos, einen Bildhauer – in der Zeit scores between 1936 and 1963 for both documentary and dance portrays the pipes and tabors of Elizabeth I innumerable dance, des Phidias. Rhesos verliebt sich in Earine, weil sie das feature films. Here he was able to experiment to the full employing the full orchestra. The second is a beguiling Yet all in order sweet and lovely. reizvollste Hinterteil hat, passend für seine Skulptur der on the many varied subjects presented to him for a suitable lilting waltz with the main theme announced by the Aphrodite. Diese kurze, köstliche Miniatur für Flöte, zwei musical background to enhance the pictures’ message and strings. The third is a Morris Dance with the main theme Als echte Tondichtung – wenn auch nicht dem Namen Hörner, Harfe und Streicher erfasst die Vision der mood. It was the only medium in which he could see very first stated by a solo bassoon, which is then taken up by nach –, ist dieses Werk eine vollendete Aphrodite vollkommen. Es handelt sich wiederum um die quickly whether he had been successful in trying out some the flute before finally being presented by the strings. The Heraufbeschwörung des Frühlings. Vom leisen Beginn erste Aufnahme nach über siebzig Jahren. new way and or idea of scoring. A film score had to be fourth is a somewhat ‘bluesy’ dance with the main theme mit geteilten Tremolo-Streichern, gefolgt von ge- Das Symphonic Prelude „The Magic Island“ entstand provided fairly quickly, as it was nearly always the last announced by the violins and later presented by the full dämpften Hörnern, über die allmähliche Hinzufügung 1952 und leitet sich von Shakespeares Der Sturm her. Die process to be added before the film’s release, and Alwyn orchestra. The fifth, a quiet Pavane, suggests a consort of weiterer Instrumente bis hin zum vollen Orchester erfolgt Zauberinsel ist jene des Prospero, des rechtmäßigen threw himself into the task wholeheartedly. One week he viols and recorders with the strings carrying the main idea endlich der Sonnenaufgang. Mit dem nun folgenden Herzogs von Mailand. Die berühmten Verse aus dem 2. would be composing the score to the film, the next he was embellished by flutes clarinets and harp. The sixth, lebhaften Tanz führt Alwyn sogleich in Blakes Akt (Szene 2) über Caliban, einen wilden und

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PMS PMS 000 000 0 missgestalteten Sklaven, sind der Partitur vorangestellt: John Barbirolli hatte das Werk in Auftrag gegeben und gab zusammen mit dem Hallé Orchestra am 25. März 1953 in … the Isle is full of noises, der Free Trade Hall, Manchester die Uraufführung. ALWYN Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not: Der Festival March ist ein Auftragswerk des Arts Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Council of Great Britain für das Festival of Britain 1951. Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, Es ist ein Marsch in der besten britischen Tradition von Elizabethan Dances That if I wak’d after long sleep, Elgar und Walton. Auf die Eröffnungsfanfare folgt ein Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming, ausgedehntes Thema der Violinen und Hörner, begleitet Oboe Concerto • Aphrodite in Aulis The clouds methought would open, and show riches vom übrigen Orchester. Nach einer Klimax des vollen Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak’d Orchesters erstirbt die Musik, um dem noblen Trio Platz I cried to dream again. zu machen, vorgetragen von den Violinen und Celli im Jonathan Small, Oboe Das atmosphärische Stück beginnt sehr leise mit Unisono. Das Trio wird Grandioso vom ganzen Orchester murmelnden Streichern – später begleitet von Harfe, wiederholt, wonach eine kurze Über-gangspassage zum Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Holz- und Blechbläsern –, die das Anlaufen der Wellen Marschthema zurückführt. Dieses erreicht einen gegen die Küste vorstellen. Ein Melodiefragment des Höhepunkt mit dem fortissimo wieder-kehrenden Trio und David Lloyd-Jones Englischhorns wird von den anderen Instrumenten im bringt das Werk zu einem strahlenden Abschluss. Die Wechsel durchgeführt. Es folgt ein lebhafterer Abschnitt, Premiere am 21. Mai 1951 in der Royal Festival Hall gab und nach einer unheimlichen Passage der Solovioline, das London Philharmonic Orchestra unter Sir Malcolm begleitet von sanften Bläserakkorden und der Harfe, wird Sargent. ein Höhepunkt mit einer breiten Ausführung des Themas, auf das immer wieder hingedeutet worden ist, erreicht. Andrew Peter Knowles Die Musik stirbt dahin und endet so leise, wie sie begann. Deutsche Fassung: Thomas Theise

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PMS PMS 000 000 0 NAXOS NAXOS This fifth volume in the Naxos cycle of the complete orchestral works of William Alwyn fea- tures the popular Elizabethan Dances, which contrast ancient and modern dance rhythms from the courts of Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II. The atmospheric Symphonic Prelude “The Magic Island” was inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest. A perfect evocation of Spring, The Innumerable Dance is a tone poem in all but name. This and the exquisite miniature 8.570144 ALWYN: ALWYN: Aphrodite in Aulis have not been heard for over 70 years, and here receive their first record- ing. Composed during World War II, the Oboe Concerto expresses the composer’s yearning DDD the peace and beauty of the English countryside. William Playing Time WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS 71:08 Elizabethan Dances•OboeConcerto Elizabethan Dances • Oboe Concerto ALWYN (1905–1985) Elizabethan Dances (1956–7) 17:33 Concerto for Oboe, Harp 18:51 1 Moderato e ritmico 3:02 and Strings (1943–44) 2 Waltz tempo–languidamente 2:17 8 Andante e rubato 10:47 3 Allegro scherzando 1:43 9 Vivace 8:04 (ma non troppo allegro) 0 Aphrodite in Aulis – 5:09 4 Moderato 3:48 An Eclogue for Small Orchestra 5 Poco Allegretto e semplice 3:20 after George Moore (1932) * Made intheUK Booklet notesinEnglish•KommentaraufDeutsch Naxos RightsInternationalLtd. 6 Allegro giocoso 3:24 www.naxos.com ! Symphonic Prelude 10:53 7 The Innumerable Dance – 10:37 “The Magic Island” (1952) & An English Overture (1933) *

@ Festival March (1951) 8:05 2006 Jonathan Small, Oboe Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra David Lloyd-Jones Eleanor Hudson, Harp Recorded in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK from 19th to 22nd January, 2006 8.570144 8.570144 Producer: Anna Barry • Engineer: Phil Rowlands • MCPS • Booklet Notes: Andrew Knowles * Indicates world prèmiere recording • Publishers: Alfred Lengnick & Co. Ltd (Tracks 1–6, 8–9, and 11–12); The William Alwyn Foundation (Tracks 7 & 10) This recording was made with financial assistance from The William Alwyn Foundation Cover Picture: Ball at the Court of Valois, French School (16th Centruy) (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France / Bridgeman Art Library)

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