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11-03-2016, 05:06 PM
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Edmund Rubbra's (1901-1986) emergence during the interwar period as one of England's most skillful
symphonists, and the subsequent dissemination of his musical ideals through 40 years of teaching at major British
institutions, have earned him a place of honor among twentieth century British musicians. Rubbra was born into an
impoverished Northampton family in 1901. His mother gave him his first musical lessons at the age of eight, and,
although Rubbra was forced to take a job as a railway clerk at age 14, his enthusiasm for music continued unabated.
By 1917 he had discovered the music of Cyril Scott, and his subsequent recital of that composer's piano works
impressed the composer enough that he invited Rubbra to study both piano and composition with him privately.
After working with Scott for three years he attended Reading University on a musical scholarship for one year
(1920-1921), after which he entered the Royal College of Music to study composition with Gustav Holst and
harmony/counterpoint with R.O. Morris.
Rubbra's career was somewhat uncertain after graduating from the Royal College in 1925, and he was forced to
work in a number of capacities to make ends meet (teaching school, working as an accompanist on a part-time
basis, and writing reviews of new music for the Monthly Musical Record). By the mid-1930s, however, Rubbra
was beginning to make waves as a composer, and the premieres of his first three symphonies (between 1937
and 1939) were sufficient to thrust him into the front rank of contemporary British composers.
Rubbra found professional stability with an appointment as lecturer at Oxford in 1947 (for which purpose
he made a thorough and insightful examination of both books of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier), and in 1961
he was invited to join the composition faculty of the Guildhall School of Music, where he remained until the
1980s. His later years were marked by an increasing interest in Eastern spirituality, in conjunction with a
devout Roman Catholicism. Rubbra died in 1986.
Although a major facet of British musical life during the second half of twentieth century, Rubbra's music has
been sadly neglected by North American musicians. Rubbra developed his compositional voice slowly and
with great care, absorbing the myriad influences of British composers, from Holst and Vaughan Williams to
his childhood idol Cyril Scott, and eventually emerging with a musical language all his own. His later music
shows a keen awareness of sixteenth century polyphony (especially that of Monteverdi). The 11 symphonies
(the ninth, entitled Sinfonia Sacra, for soloists, chorus, and orchestra) are undoubtedly Rubbra's most
significant contribution to the repertory.
Also included in this collection:
Sinfonia Concertante
A Tribute
Ode to the Queen
The Morning Watch
Music Composed by
Edmund Rubbra
Played by the
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
With
Howard Shelley (piano)
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Della Jones (contralto)
Stephen Roberts (baritone)
And the
BBC Welsh Chorus
Conducted by
Richard Hickox
Richard Hickox was one of the most active and well-known conductors in Britain, with a strong international
reputation, especially for performing music of his native country. He began conducting at the age of 16 and, after
studies at the Royal College of Music and Queen's College, where he was an organ scholar, he founded the City
of London Sinfonia in 1971, of which he remained musical director until his death.
In 1972 he became organist and master of music at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, remaining in that position
until 1982. In 1977 he was appointed conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and in 1982 became
the music director of the Northern Sinfonia in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He is credited with re-establishing that orchestra
as an ensemble of stature, confirmed by a highly successful tour of the United States and a complete Beethoven
symphony recording cycle for the ASV label. He was associate conductor of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra
from 1982 to 1985, and took the same title at the London Symphony Orchestra in 1985. He shared leadership
duties with Simon Standage for Collegium Musicum 90, a period-instrument group the two founded.
All this activity made Hickox a very familiar face on the British music scene. With his various choral and orchestral
ensembles he frequently appeared at the major British music festivals and at the BBC Proms Concerts. He participated
in several notable special projects, including a BBC video production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and an appearance
in the Istanbul Festival leading a production of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio inside the actual sultans'
seraglio in the Topkapi Museum. He also provided music for a Ken Russell film for the BBC on the wives of great
composers.
In the 1990s he increased his involvement with opera, leading new productions of Handel's Julius Caesar in Berlin,
Walton's Troilus and Cressida in a live BBC broadcast of an Opera North production, and Vaughan Williams'
Pilgrim's Progress at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He conducted a televised production of Britten's
Turn of the Screw on the BBC in 2004.
He guest conducted around the world, including frequent appearances with the Los Angeles Opera and the New
Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo. He made over 300 recordings and won numerous awards, including a Gramophon
Award in 1992 for his account of Britten's War Requiem, and three Gramophone Awards, a Diapason d'Or, the
Deutsche Schalplattenpreis, and a Grammy for his recording of Britten's Peter Grimes in 1995 on the Chandos
label, probably the most honored classical recording of the last quarter of the twentieth century. His recordings
appeared on the ASV, Argo, EMI, and Virgin labels, and in the early '90s he had been an exclusive Chandos artist.
More recording awards were received in 2001 and 2006 for the music of Vaughan Williams and Stanford,
respectively. In 2005, he was appointed director of the Opera Australia. Hickox died of a heart attack following
a recording session in Wales in November 2008.
Source: Chandos Records CDs (My rips!)
Quality: FLAC 16-44 files (each disc incl. cover & booklet)
File Sizes: 337 MB / 322 MB / 348 MB / 265 MB / 304 MB / 241 MB
Total Size: 1.8 GB
Please request the FLAC links (including the covers
and individual booklets, plus the box front & booklet) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
These are my own rips. Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation!
and individual booklets, plus the box front & booklet) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
These are my own rips. Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation!
Edmund Rubbra's (1901-1986) emergence during the interwar period as one of England's most skillful
symphonists, and the subsequent dissemination of his musical ideals through 40 years of teaching at major British
institutions, have earned him a place of honor among twentieth century British musicians. Rubbra was born into an
impoverished Northampton family in 1901. His mother gave him his first musical lessons at the age of eight, and,
although Rubbra was forced to take a job as a railway clerk at age 14, his enthusiasm for music continued unabated.
By 1917 he had discovered the music of Cyril Scott, and his subsequent recital of that composer's piano works
impressed the composer enough that he invited Rubbra to study both piano and composition with him privately.
After working with Scott for three years he attended Reading University on a musical scholarship for one year
(1920-1921), after which he entered the Royal College of Music to study composition with Gustav Holst and
harmony/counterpoint with R.O. Morris.
Rubbra's career was somewhat uncertain after graduating from the Royal College in 1925, and he was forced to
work in a number of capacities to make ends meet (teaching school, working as an accompanist on a part-time
basis, and writing reviews of new music for the Monthly Musical Record). By the mid-1930s, however, Rubbra
was beginning to make waves as a composer, and the premieres of his first three symphonies (between 1937
and 1939) were sufficient to thrust him into the front rank of contemporary British composers.
Rubbra found professional stability with an appointment as lecturer at Oxford in 1947 (for which purpose
he made a thorough and insightful examination of both books of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier), and in 1961
he was invited to join the composition faculty of the Guildhall School of Music, where he remained until the
1980s. His later years were marked by an increasing interest in Eastern spirituality, in conjunction with a
devout Roman Catholicism. Rubbra died in 1986.
Although a major facet of British musical life during the second half of twentieth century, Rubbra's music has
been sadly neglected by North American musicians. Rubbra developed his compositional voice slowly and
with great care, absorbing the myriad influences of British composers, from Holst and Vaughan Williams to
his childhood idol Cyril Scott, and eventually emerging with a musical language all his own. His later music
shows a keen awareness of sixteenth century polyphony (especially that of Monteverdi). The 11 symphonies
(the ninth, entitled Sinfonia Sacra, for soloists, chorus, and orchestra) are undoubtedly Rubbra's most
significant contribution to the repertory.
Also included in this collection:
Sinfonia Concertante
A Tribute
Ode to the Queen
The Morning Watch
Music Composed by
Edmund Rubbra
Played by the
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
With
Howard Shelley (piano)
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Della Jones (contralto)
Stephen Roberts (baritone)
And the
BBC Welsh Chorus
Conducted by
Richard Hickox
Richard Hickox was one of the most active and well-known conductors in Britain, with a strong international
reputation, especially for performing music of his native country. He began conducting at the age of 16 and, after
studies at the Royal College of Music and Queen's College, where he was an organ scholar, he founded the City
of London Sinfonia in 1971, of which he remained musical director until his death.
In 1972 he became organist and master of music at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, remaining in that position
until 1982. In 1977 he was appointed conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and in 1982 became
the music director of the Northern Sinfonia in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He is credited with re-establishing that orchestra
as an ensemble of stature, confirmed by a highly successful tour of the United States and a complete Beethoven
symphony recording cycle for the ASV label. He was associate conductor of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra
from 1982 to 1985, and took the same title at the London Symphony Orchestra in 1985. He shared leadership
duties with Simon Standage for Collegium Musicum 90, a period-instrument group the two founded.
All this activity made Hickox a very familiar face on the British music scene. With his various choral and orchestral
ensembles he frequently appeared at the major British music festivals and at the BBC Proms Concerts. He participated
in several notable special projects, including a BBC video production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and an appearance
in the Istanbul Festival leading a production of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio inside the actual sultans'
seraglio in the Topkapi Museum. He also provided music for a Ken Russell film for the BBC on the wives of great
composers.
In the 1990s he increased his involvement with opera, leading new productions of Handel's Julius Caesar in Berlin,
Walton's Troilus and Cressida in a live BBC broadcast of an Opera North production, and Vaughan Williams'
Pilgrim's Progress at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He conducted a televised production of Britten's
Turn of the Screw on the BBC in 2004.
He guest conducted around the world, including frequent appearances with the Los Angeles Opera and the New
Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo. He made over 300 recordings and won numerous awards, including a Gramophon
Award in 1992 for his account of Britten's War Requiem, and three Gramophone Awards, a Diapason d'Or, the
Deutsche Schalplattenpreis, and a Grammy for his recording of Britten's Peter Grimes in 1995 on the Chandos
label, probably the most honored classical recording of the last quarter of the twentieth century. His recordings
appeared on the ASV, Argo, EMI, and Virgin labels, and in the early '90s he had been an exclusive Chandos artist.
More recording awards were received in 2001 and 2006 for the music of Vaughan Williams and Stanford,
respectively. In 2005, he was appointed director of the Opera Australia. Hickox died of a heart attack following
a recording session in Wales in November 2008.
Source: Chandos Records CDs (My rips!)
Quality: FLAC 16-44 files (each disc incl. cover & booklet)
File Sizes: 337 MB / 322 MB / 348 MB / 265 MB / 304 MB / 241 MB
Total Size: 1.8 GB
Please request the FLAC links (including the covers
and individual booklets, plus the box front & booklet) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
These are my own rips. Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation!