Edward Elgar: The Starlight Express Op.78, Audio-CD

Marke: Manahan Thomas

Variante: Audio-CD

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PRODUKTBESCHREIBUNGEN KURZBESCHREIBUNG Die Schauspielmusik zum Märchenspiel The Starlight Express gehört nicht nur ausserhalb Englands zu den unbekanntesten Werken Elgars. Haupthindernis für eine weitere Verbreitung sind die vielen melodramatischen Nummern, die ohne den gesprochenen Text kaum Sinn machen. Auf der Grundlage der jüngsten Elgar Edition hat Andrew Davis eine Kurzfassung erstellt, dessen behutsam angepasster Text hier von Simon Callow (u.a. Vier Hochzeiten und ein Todesfall) gesprochen wird. Darüber hinaus bietet die Aufnahme eine erweiterte Suite sowie drei Lieder, die in direkter Verbindung mit der Vorlage stehen. Edward Elgar: The Starlight Express Op.78 - Suite aus Starlight Express (orchestriert von Andrew Davis) Clive Carey: Three Songs from The Starlight Express (orchestriert von Andrew Davis) REZENSION In 1915 Elgar was asked to provide the music for a West End play for children, The Starlight Express, an adaptation of Algernon Blackwood's story A Prisoner in Fairyland. Elgar intended to recycle pieces from his Wand of Youth suites, but charmed by the story and encouraged by his deepening friendship with Blackwood, he found himself composing more and more original material as he went on. As Andrew Davis's performance of the complete score shows, there are moments of top-drawer, heart-stopping Elgar here, as well as more routine Edwardian numbers. This double disc offers a choice: the music can either be heard as a suite that Davis has arranged, or in the context of the winsome original story the play replaced with an avuncular narration by Simon Callow. The songs are delivered with just the right lightness of touch by soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and baritone Roderick Williams. *** --Guardian,25/10/12 IRR OUTSTANDING. This is an outstanding release and I recommend it with all possible enthusiasm. On a seasonal note, given that the last music we here in the Starlight Express Elgar's arrangement of The First Nowell,I d be hard to suggest a more poignant and delightful Christmas gift. --IRR,Nov'12 Davis secures absolutely first-rate results from the Scottish CO. Elin Manahan Thomas's light and silvery soprano could hardly be more suited to the parts of the laughter and Jane-Anne, while Roderick Williams is in glorious voice throughout. Everything has been captured by the microphones with ingratiating amplitude, bloom and glow. --Gramophone, Dec'12 During the first world war Elgar wrote a variety of music most of it now little known to stir the national spirit. One such project was The Starlight Express, a supernatural play for children based on Algernon Henry Blackwood s book A Prisoner in Fairyland. The play was a flop but Elgar's touching music, in nostalgic Wand of Youth vein, shows how inspired he was by Blackwood's ideas. He is on more solid ground on the second CD, comprising a 45-minute suite he has culled from the complete work. Both CDs feature the excellent baritone soloist Roderick Williams. *** --Financial Times, 07/12/12 Elgar's incidental music to Violet Pearn's 1915 play is lovingly restored by Sir Andrew Davis and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, with singers Elin Manahan Thomas and Roderick Williams. To replace Pearn's dialogue, Davis has crafted a narration based on Algernon Henry Blackwood's grittier original story, and has orchestrated three long-lost songs by Clive Carey. Elgar's score has an ageless freshness, and concludes with a handsome "The First Nowell". **** --Independent, 23/12/12 One of the Top 10 Classical CDs of 2012 --Sunday Times

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