Holbrooke / Ingolfsson / Griffiths: Josef Holbrooke: Violin Concerto / The Raven / Auld Lang Syne

Holbrooke / Ingolfsson / Griffiths: Josef Holbrooke: Violin Concerto / The Raven / Auld Lang Syne - COMPACT DISCS

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Josef Holbrooke: Violin Concerto / The Raven / Auld Lang Syne

Artist:

Holbrooke / Ingolfsson / Griffiths

Label:

Cpo Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

761203763627

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2016-11-18

Number of Discs:

1

When the symphonic poem The Raven after Edgar Allan Poe celebrated it's premiere in London in March, 1900, the critics showered hymns of praise on his work so rich in unique orchestral colors and on it's young composer Josef Holbrooke. It brought him his breakthrough and firmly established his reputation as an innovative and original contemporary composer. There are certainly many settings of Poe's poem, but Holbrooke was the first composer who did not merely set the text but used it as the poetic basis for his first "Poem for Orchestra." Holbrooke's idiom was the musical language of the late nineteenth century obliged to the primacy of expression, and he enriched it with his constant quest for new tonal effects. In his orchestral variations on the beloved Scottish folk song "Auld Lang Syne" he again displays his extraordinary gift for employing his absolutely inexhaustible inventive talent and fine feeling for harmony in order to endow simple song forms with subtle expressive variety.

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