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Album Summary

Performers

• The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Piano)
• Julian Lloyd Webber (Cello)
• Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
• BBC Concert Orchestra
• Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
• English Chamber Orchestra
• Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
• Cleveland Orchestra
• Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Hand Bells)
• Joseph Cooper (Piano)
• Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra
• Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (Piano)

Conductors

• Barenboim, Daniel
• Chailly, Riccardo
• Dorati, Antal
• Hanson, Howard
• Judd, James
• Litton, Andrew
• Marriner, Sir Neville
• Mehta, Zubin
• Ottley, Jerold D.
• Wordsworth, Barry

Ensembles

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• Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
• BBC Concert Orchestra
• Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
• Cleveland Orchestra
• Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra
• English Chamber Orchestra
• Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Composers

• George Frederick Handel (1685 - 1759)
• George Butterworth (1885 - 1916)
• Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934)
• American Traditional
• Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
• Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
• Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
• Edward MacDowell (1860 - 1908)
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
• William Walton (Composer) (1902 - 1983)
• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
• Ron Nelson (Composer) (1929 - )

Notes & Reviews:

This selection features both ADD and DDD recordings.

Personnel: Julian Lloyd Webber (cello); Joseph Cooper (piano).

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Works Details

Rachmaninov, Sergei : Songs (14), Op. 34

• Performer: The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
• Running Time: 6 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Studio/Live: Studio

Debussy, Claude : Poèmes (7) de Banville

• Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Piano); Julian Lloyd Webber (Cello)
• Conductor: James Judd
• Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Running Time: 4 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1890
• Studio/Live: Studio

Handel, George Frideric : Water Music Suite no 2 in D major, HWV 349 :: Menuet

• Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
• Notes: Composition written: 1717.
• Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1717
• Studio/Live: Studio

Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904) : Serenade for Strings :: Tempo di valse

• Performer: The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
• Running Time: 6 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Studio/Live: Studio

Puccini, Giacomo : Madama Butterfly :: Humming Chorus

• Performer: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: Composition written: 1904.
• Running Time: 3 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1904
• Studio/Live: Studio

Butterworth, George : Banks of Green Willow

• Performer: The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
• Notes: Composition written: 1913.
• Running Time: 6 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1913
• Studio/Live: Studio

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : English Folk Song Suite :: My Bonny Boy

• Performer: The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
• Running Time: 3 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1923
• Studio/Live: Studio

Walton, William : Henry V :: Touch Her Soft Lips, and Part

• Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Andrew Litton
• Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Film Score
• Written: 1943-1944
• Studio/Live: Studio

Delius, Frederick : Aquarelles (2), for strings (arr. by Fenby from 2 songs "to be sung on a summer night")

• Performer: English Chamber Orchestra
• Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
• Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra
• Running Time: 4 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1936
• Studio/Live: Studio

Copland, Aaron : Rodeo :: Corral Nocturne

• Performer: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Antal Dorati
• Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1942
• Studio/Live: Studio

Gershwin, George : Lullaby, for string quartet

• Performer: Cleveland Orchestra
• Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
• Ensemble: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 7 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: circa 1919
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional, American : Shenandoah, folk song

• Performer: Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Hand Bells)
• Conductor: Jerold Ottley
• Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 18th Century
• Studio/Live: Studio

MacDowell, Edward : To a Wild Rose

• Performer: Joseph Cooper (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1896
• Studio/Live: Studio

Nelson, Ron : Sarabande :: For Katherine in April, for orchestra

• Performer: Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Howard Hanson
• Running Time: 4 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1954
• Studio/Live: Studio

Copland, Aaron : Appalachian Spring :: Simple Gifts

• Performer: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (Piano)
• Conductor: Zubin Mehta
• Ensemble: Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Ballet
• Written: 1945
• Studio/Live: Studio