wimpel69
01-09-2018, 03:24 PM
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This posting combines the "British Composers" two-fer of orchestral works by English composer and
sometime "Master of the Queen's Musick" Sir Arthur Bliss with two additional works featured on
the first CD release of Charles Groves' classic recording of A Colour Symphony - arguably
Bliss's major work.
Works included:
A Colour Symphony
Cello Concerto
Things to Come - Suite from the Film Score
Adam Zero - Suite from the Ballet
Miracle in the Gorbals - Suite from the Ballet
Discourse for Orchestra
Overture "Edinburgh"
Concerto for Two Pianos
Christopher Columbus - Suite from the Film Score
Music Composed by
Sir Arthur Bliss
Played by the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
With
Arto Noras (cello)
Cyril Smith (piano)
Phyllis Sellick (piano)
Conducted by
Sir Charles Groves
Paavo Berglund
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Vernon Handley
"Although outspoken in his support of the post-World War I Parisian avant-garde during his youth, English composer
Arthur Bliss ended his long career as a dedicated proponent of a more conservative, neo-Romantic musical aesthetic.
Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music (where he found his studies with Charles
Stanford too stifling), Bliss' earliest music (all later withdrawn and subsequently destroyed by the composer) shows a
strong knowledge of and interest in the music of Edward Elgar.
After service with the Royal Fusiliers (and later the Grenadier Guards) during the War, however, Bliss' musical aesthetic
changed dramatically, and he quickly became known as a thoroughly "modern" composer, owing more allegiance to
the exciting happenings on the continent than to the musical life of his own country. His music from the 1920s (such
as the Rhapsody for two voices and chamber ensemble) is characterized by unusual vocal techniques, jazz influence,
and striking harmonic procedures (not to mention occasionally exotic ensembles (e.g., the incidental music to
The Tempest, 1921, scored for two male voices, trumpet, trombone, piano, gong, and five percussionists!).
Bliss' notable career as a conductor began in 1921 with his appointment as conductor of the Portsmouth Philharmonic
Society. Invited to compose a work for the Three Choirs Festival in 1922, Bliss created one of his best-known works,
the Colour Symphony; this adventuresome work had the unwelcome side effect of causing a strain in the relationship
between Bliss and Elgar, a dedicated conservative through whom the actual commission for the work had come.
After two years in California with his brother and father (1923-1925) (during which time Bliss lived in semi-retirement
from the musical world and married Trudy Hoffmann), the composer returned to Great Britain and resumed his
active composing career with the Introduction and Allegro of 1926 (commissioned and premiered by Leopold Stokowski).
Over the course of the 1920s Bliss began to re-evaluate his heritage as a composer and found him veering away
from the "modernist" tendencies of the post-War years in favor of a richer melodic approach in which sound musical
rhetoric and construction occasionally suffer in favor of expression and clarity of dramatic purpose. The five-
movement Morning Heroes, a choral symphony dedicated to the victims of World War I and premiered in 1930,
is a fine example of Bliss' new outlook.
The first years of World War II were spent in the United States teaching at Berkeley, but Bliss returned to England to
take over as director of music at the BBC from 1942 to 1944. Knighted for services to British music in 1950, Bliss
served as Master of the Queen's Music from 1953 to until his death in 1975 at the age of 83."
All Music
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Sizes: 364 MB / 350 MB / 170 MB
Please request the FLAC links in this thread. PM's will be ignored.
These are my own rips. Only the covers are included. Enjoy!
Please add to my reputation if you download my material. Please don't share further! :)
These are my own rips. Only the covers are included. Enjoy!
This posting combines the "British Composers" two-fer of orchestral works by English composer and
sometime "Master of the Queen's Musick" Sir Arthur Bliss with two additional works featured on
the first CD release of Charles Groves' classic recording of A Colour Symphony - arguably
Bliss's major work.
Works included:
A Colour Symphony
Cello Concerto
Things to Come - Suite from the Film Score
Adam Zero - Suite from the Ballet
Miracle in the Gorbals - Suite from the Ballet
Discourse for Orchestra
Overture "Edinburgh"
Concerto for Two Pianos
Christopher Columbus - Suite from the Film Score
Music Composed by
Sir Arthur Bliss
Played by the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
With
Arto Noras (cello)
Cyril Smith (piano)
Phyllis Sellick (piano)
Conducted by
Sir Charles Groves
Paavo Berglund
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Vernon Handley
"Although outspoken in his support of the post-World War I Parisian avant-garde during his youth, English composer
Arthur Bliss ended his long career as a dedicated proponent of a more conservative, neo-Romantic musical aesthetic.
Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music (where he found his studies with Charles
Stanford too stifling), Bliss' earliest music (all later withdrawn and subsequently destroyed by the composer) shows a
strong knowledge of and interest in the music of Edward Elgar.
After service with the Royal Fusiliers (and later the Grenadier Guards) during the War, however, Bliss' musical aesthetic
changed dramatically, and he quickly became known as a thoroughly "modern" composer, owing more allegiance to
the exciting happenings on the continent than to the musical life of his own country. His music from the 1920s (such
as the Rhapsody for two voices and chamber ensemble) is characterized by unusual vocal techniques, jazz influence,
and striking harmonic procedures (not to mention occasionally exotic ensembles (e.g., the incidental music to
The Tempest, 1921, scored for two male voices, trumpet, trombone, piano, gong, and five percussionists!).
Bliss' notable career as a conductor began in 1921 with his appointment as conductor of the Portsmouth Philharmonic
Society. Invited to compose a work for the Three Choirs Festival in 1922, Bliss created one of his best-known works,
the Colour Symphony; this adventuresome work had the unwelcome side effect of causing a strain in the relationship
between Bliss and Elgar, a dedicated conservative through whom the actual commission for the work had come.
After two years in California with his brother and father (1923-1925) (during which time Bliss lived in semi-retirement
from the musical world and married Trudy Hoffmann), the composer returned to Great Britain and resumed his
active composing career with the Introduction and Allegro of 1926 (commissioned and premiered by Leopold Stokowski).
Over the course of the 1920s Bliss began to re-evaluate his heritage as a composer and found him veering away
from the "modernist" tendencies of the post-War years in favor of a richer melodic approach in which sound musical
rhetoric and construction occasionally suffer in favor of expression and clarity of dramatic purpose. The five-
movement Morning Heroes, a choral symphony dedicated to the victims of World War I and premiered in 1930,
is a fine example of Bliss' new outlook.
The first years of World War II were spent in the United States teaching at Berkeley, but Bliss returned to England to
take over as director of music at the BBC from 1942 to 1944. Knighted for services to British music in 1950, Bliss
served as Master of the Queen's Music from 1953 to until his death in 1975 at the age of 83."
All Music
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Sizes: 364 MB / 350 MB / 170 MB
Please request the FLAC links in this thread. PM's will be ignored.
These are my own rips. Only the covers are included. Enjoy!
Please add to my reputation if you download my material. Please don't share further! :)