Rob Howells

The Howells work is pastoral-ecstatic to the point of voluptuous. The green of fields, the blue of sky - each has an emotional intensity which defines this particular idle hill of youthful summer. This is after all the work of a 25 year old and written during the Great War. It dates from the year after the superb Piano Quartet and from the same year as the Elegy for viola, string quartet and string orchestra - the latter written in memory of Francis Purcell Warren killed in the war. That elegiac vein dominates in the hushed magic of the second half of this brief work. The Cooke, on the other hand, might almost …..

Rob Barnett @ musicweb-international.com

Siegmund von Hausegger - Rasilainen - Natursymphonie für großes Orchester und Schlußchor
WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln / WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln / Ari Rasilainen
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 248 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: CPO # 777237-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2008
Genre: Classical | Style: Early 20th Century

…If your taste leans towards Austro-German late-Romantic music and you are, perhaps, also enjoying CPO’s superb on-going Weingartner series then this SACD is a must. It certainly deserves a top recommendation.

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