Sounds of the Sea

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Album Summary

Performers

• Della Jones (Mezzo Soprano)
• Nadia Cole (Piano)
• Myleene Klass (Piano)
• Werner Haas (Piano)

Conductors

• Ansermet, Ernest
• Boult, Adrian
• Britten, Benjamin
• Bruggen, Frans
• Chacksfield, Frank
• Gergiev, Valery
• Godfrey, Isidore
• Haitink, Bernard
• Khachaturian, Aram
• Llewellyn, Grant
• Mackerras, Charles, Sir
• Norrington, Roger
• Sinopoli, Giuseppe
• Vinden, Maurice
• Wordsworth, Barry

Ensemble

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Composers

• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908)
• Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953)
• Ludovico Einaudi (1955 - )
• Eric Coates (Composer) (1886 - 1957)
• Aram Khachaturian (1903 - 1978)
• Henry J. Wood (Conductor) (1869 - 1944)
• Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
• John Bacchus Dykes (1823 - 1876)
• Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900)
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
• Ronald Binge (1910 - 1979)
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
• Richard Wagner (Classical) (1813 - 1883)
• Hamish McCunn
• Thomas Arne (1710 - 1778)

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Works Details

Mendelssohn, Felix : Hebrides Overture, in B minor Op. 26 "Fingal's Cave"

• Conductor: Frans Brüggen
• Notes: Composition written: 12/11/1830.
• Running Time: 9 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 12/11/1830

Khachaturian, Aram : Spartacus :: Adagio of and Phrygia

• Conductor: Aram Khachaturian
• Notes: Composition written: 1950-54.
• Running Time: 9 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Ballet
• Written: 1950-1954

Debussy, Claude : La Mer :: Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea

• Conductor: Ernest Ansermet
• Running Time: 7 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1903-1905

Britten, Benjamin : Peter Grimes :: Sea Interludes. The Storm

• Conductor: Benjamin Britten
• Running Time: 4 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1945

Wood, Henry J. : Fantasia on British Sea Songs :: Sailor's Hornpipe

• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Running Time: 2 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Binge, Ronald : Sailing By, for orchestra (theme for BBC Radio 4's Late Night Shipping Forecast)

• Running Time: 3 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1963

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai : Scheherazade :: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship

• Conductor: Valery Gergiev
• Running Time: 10 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1888

Elgar, Edward : Sea Pictures :: Sea Slumber Song

• Performer: Della Jones (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Charles Mackerras
• Running Time: 5 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1897-1899

Ravel, Maurice : Jeux d'eau

• Performer: Nadia Cole (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1901

Bax, Arnold : Tintagel, tone poem for orchestra

• Conductor: Adrian Boult
• Running Time: 13 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1917-1919

Dykes, John Bacchus : Eternal father, strong to save "Melita"

• Conductor: Maurice Vinden
• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral

Wagner, Richard : The Flying Dutchman :: Overture

• Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli
• Running Time: 10 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1841

Einaudi, Ludovico : Le Onde

• Performer: Myleene Klass (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Sullivan, Arthur : The Pirates of Penzance :: Overture

• Conductor: Isidore Godfrey
• Running Time: 8 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1879

McCunn, Hamish : Sutherland's Law (Land of the Mountain and Flood)

• Conductor: Grant Llewellyn
• Running Time: 8 min. 38 sec.

Coates, Eric [Composer] : By the Sleepy Lagoon, valse serenade for orchestra

• Conductor: Frank Chacksfield
• Running Time: 2 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1930

Mendelssohn, Felix : Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture, in D major Op. 27

• Conductor: Bernard Haitink
• Running Time: 12 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: circa 05/1828

Debussy, Claude : Petite Suite :: En Bateau

• Conductor: Ernest Ansermet
• Running Time: 3 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1888-1889

Stanford, Charles Villiers : Songs of the Sea, for baritone voice, male chorus & orchestra, no 4, "Homeward Bound" Op. 91/4

• Conductor: Roger Norrington
• Running Time: 6 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1904

Ravel, Maurice : Miroirs :: [Excerpt]

• Performer: Werner Haas (Piano)
• Running Time: 6 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1904-1905

Arne, Thomas Augustine : Rule Britannia

• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Running Time: 4 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1740