CWSO01 Palace Premieres

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CWSO01 Palace Premieres

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We are very pleased to announce a new recording from MPR of music for string orchestra entitled 'Palace Premieres', with the Countess of Wessex's String Orchestra. The playlist consists of hitherto unrecorded music performed during Royal Investitures (where honours are bestowed by Her Majesty the Queen or by one of her close family) and includes works such as Suite: 'In Rural England' by Thomas Dunhill, 'Shepherd's Delight' by Alec Rowley, 'Pastoral Scene' by Frederic Curzon, 'Fragment for Strings' by Bertram Walton O'Donnell, 'Nocturne' by WH Speer, Gavotte 'In Georgian Days' by Roger Quilter, 'Rivers of Devon Suite' by Ernest Markham Lee and a number of beautiful light music arrangements for strings of folk songs. We have also included as a 'bonus' a suite of Seven Pieces by Giles Farnaby, arranged by Bantock. We recorded the latter only to discover that in fact it has already been recorded but only once to our knowledge and we decided that as it is such good material we just had to include it.

The Countess of Wessex's String Orchestra is very sensitively directed by Major David Hammond, a truly fine musician. The orchestra consists of the best string players in the Army who are very fine and highly trained musicians. The quality of playing is really excellent and the performances musicianly and committed. The CD was recorded in the sumptuous acoustic of the Guards Chapel in London and the recording engineer is the legendary Tony Faulkner. Mike Purton was producer and editor and we recommend this recording to anyone who loves British music of a certain period (see above). Lee's 'Rivers of Devon' Suite is very Elgarian, Speer's little 'Nocturne' brings to mind Wagner’s 'Siegfried Idyll' and you can see from many of the titles that spirit of Rural England  is frequently invoked. This recording has been made in collaboration with the Corps of Army Music Trust.

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