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Take a stroll any time of yr in England’s inexperienced and nice and, until you’re very fortunate, you’ll quickly sink as much as the shinbone in what is called a cowpat. These items are so prevalent they’ve even given rise to a style of ‘cowpat music’ – works that categorical a quintessential Englishness with an ineradicably odiferous aftertaste. The time period is normally credited to the crabby, atonal and determinedly unpopular composer Elizabeth Lutyens.
Ralph Vaughan Williams was the grand grasp of cowpat music, in a position to evoke in a single line of music 5 centuries of timeless pastorality. His Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis will be made to sound as near kitsch as an Ealing comedy. Alternatively, a dedicated conductor can tease out unsuspected shades and ripples, turning the rating into one thing like a Turner panorama.
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John Wilson has an uncanny capability to make acquainted music sound contemporary along with his sinfonia of London. On this compilation album, he delivers a compelling studying of the Tallis Fantasia and an much more imposing account of Edward Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for strings – probably the most illuminating I’ve heard for the reason that overwhelming John Barbirolli recording a superb 60 years in the past. How Wilson will get his violins to sound at one second like a string quartet and the subsequent like a church organ is among the mysteries of musical transmission. On this way, he has the most effective strings sound in Britain.
In between the 2 masterpieces are a concerto for string orchestra by Herbert Howells (whose property subsidised this album) and an impressionistic essay on Late Swallows by Frederick Delius. Neither has legs sufficient to assist a tea-table, however the outer works are merely magnificent – to not be missed.
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