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Charles Fussell (b. 1938) - Cymbeline - Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose (2018) {BMOP/sound 1059}
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Classical / Contemporary Classical

A veteran composer, Charles Fussell has served as an important figure in the musical lives of Boston and New York for over 20 years. As evidenced in this recording, Cymbeline, Fussell writes for the voice comfortably and idiomatically. He has an authentic gift for text setting and his vocal lines are unabashedly lyrical and expressive. After writing thoroughly chromatic music in his Eurydice (1973) and Etudes and Portraits (1977), Fussell wanted to bring something fresh to tonality in Cymbeline.

Pergolesi's Stabat mater and his C minor Salve Regina were coupled earlier on the Hogwood (L'Oiseau-Lyre) recording, highly praised by NA. The addition of another Salve Regina, this one attributed not quite conclusively to Scarlatti as a late work, provides the new record with a further attraction both on the piece's own merit (irrespective of authorship) and in its affinity with the Stabat mater. Another attraction for many will lie in the identity of the two singers and the conductor.

Before turning his attention to opera, Puccini wrote a number of wonderful works that are perhaps less well known, even if they already put his full genius on show. This is particularly true of the astonishing Messa di Gloria, whose evocative power and shimmering colours well deserve the exceptional cast on this recording. Indeed, a special passion inspires the soloists and chorus gathered around Gustavo Gimeno and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg.

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.

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