For Your Life - For a Sunday Morning - Decca - DEC 2894704562 - 028947045625

This selection contains both DDD and ADD recordings.

Personnel: Thurston Dart (harpsichord).

Another volume in Decca's lifestyle classical music series, For a Sunday Morning collects lively yet relaxing compositions, including Grieg's "Morning Mood," Bach's "Sleepers, Awake," and Johann Strauss II's "Morning Newspapers." Debussy's "Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun" and "En Bateau" lend a languid elegance to the album, while Lord Benjamin Britten's "Sunday Morning by the Beach" has a bustling, cosmopolitan feel that reflects a completely different -- but just as refreshing -- Sunday morning. Dvorák's "Waltz From Serenade for Strings" and Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Seventeen Come Sunday From English Folk Suite" add a pastoral feel to the album that gives it diversity without losing focus. Gabriel Fauré's "Sicilienne From Pelléas et Mélisande" and Holst's "Finale (The Dargason) From St Paul's Suite" are two of the other standout pieces from this collection. While the gentle, almost lulling feel of For a Sunday Morning is almost as appropriate for falling asleep as waking up, the album is pleasant at any time of day and for almost any occasion. ~ Heather Phares

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Grieg, Edvard : Peer Gynt :: Morning Mood

Performer: San Symphony
Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt
Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Running Time: 4 min. 21 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1874-1875

Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904) : Serenade for Strings :: Waltz

Performer: The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Conductor: Sir Marriner
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Running Time: 6 min. 17 sec.
Period Time: Romantic

Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924) : Pavane, Op. 50

Performer: The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Conductor: Sir Marriner
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Running Time: 5 min. 43 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1887

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Orchestral Suite no 3 in D major, BWV 1068 :: Air

Performers: The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Thurston Dart (Harp)
Conductor: Sir Marriner
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Running Time: 5 min. 13 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1731

Holst, Gustav : St. Paul's Suite for Strings, Op. 29 no 2/H 118 :: Finale "The Dargason"

Conductor: Christopher Hogwood
Ensemble: St. Paul Chamber Ensemble
Running Time: 3 min. 36 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1912-1913

Debussy, Claude : Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Performer: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Paul Paray
Ensemble: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Running Time: 8 min. 27 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1894

Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924) : Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80 :: Sicilienne

Performer: The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Conductor: Sir Marriner
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Running Time: 3 min. 56 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1898

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Cantata no 140, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme," BWV 140 (BC A166) :: Sleepers, Awake

Performer: New Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Raymond Agoult
Ensemble: New Symphony Orchestra
Running Time: 5 min. 28 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 11/25/1731

Debussy, Claude : Petite suite for Piano 4 hands :: En Bateau (Orchestra version)

Performer: Suisse Romande Orchestra
Conductor: Ernest Ansermet
Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra
Running Time: 3 min. 46 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1888-1889

Grieg, Edvard : Peer Gynt :: Anitra's Dance

Performer: San Symphony
Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt
Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Running Time: 3 min. 27 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1874-1875

Britten, Benjamin : Peter Grimes :: Sunday Morning By The Beach

Performer: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra
Conductor: Colin Davis
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra
Running Time: 2 min. 39 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1945

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : English Folk Song Suite :: March

Performer: The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Conductor: Sir Marriner
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Running Time: 3 min. 21 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1923

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Morgenblätter, Op. 279

Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Willi Boskovsky
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Running Time: 9 min. 25 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Waltz
Written: 1864

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