Give props first of all to American conductor JoAnn Falletta, who here masters works outside her American music specialty, several of them fairly complex. None of the works by English-Irish composer E.J. Moeran this Naxos release is a world premiere, but none is exactly common. All were worth a new recording, and Falletta has sculpted convincing interpretations of each one. Moeran's style falls somewhere between those of Elgar and Vaughan Williams, with a strong mark of folk music in all four of these works. The Cello ...
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Give props first of all to American conductor JoAnn Falletta, who here masters works outside her American music specialty, several of them fairly complex. None of the works by English-Irish composer E.J. Moeran this Naxos release is a world premiere, but none is exactly common. All were worth a new recording, and Falletta has sculpted convincing interpretations of each one. Moeran's style falls somewhere between those of Elgar and Vaughan Williams, with a strong mark of folk music in all four of these works. The Cello Concerto of 1945, one of Moeran's major works, has a stunning slow central movement that cellist Guy Johnston delivers with gorgeous calm. The Serenade in G major (1948), a series of short but rather overweight dance, is a bit like the neo-Baroque mode of Malipiero; the two small orchestral works at the end are stronger. Lonely Waters has a unique structure: it is a sort of series of views of an Irish folk song, with the actual song introduced by soprano Rebekah Coffey at the end. That...
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