Orchestral Music Diversions Overture

Product Description Jack Gallagher' Symphony in One Movement: Threnody has been acclaimed by in Tune magazine as 'enormously inventing' and by osterreichische Musikzeitschrift as 'a one-movement symphony of great colorfulness'. Review 9/9 rating - On evidence here, Jack Gallagher (b. 1947) is a composer of considerable ability. He wrote the notes to this release, not necessarily a good idea, since they read like a job resume and have about as much personality as stale bread, but the music happily says otherwise. The two big works, the Sinfonietta for strings and the Symphony "Threnody", have considerable substance. Among the five movements of the former work is an Argentine Malambo (think of the final dance of Ginastera's ballet Estancia), and a very good one too. The symphony manages the difficult task in a modern work of being turbulent and emotionally affecting without ever sounding petulant or gratuitously miserable. It's also very cogently structured in one movement, part of a long and distinguished lineage stretching back through Samuel Barber and Roy Harris to the Seventh Symphony of Sibelius. Diversions Overture opens with some lovely modal harmonies in the woodwinds, and for a moment you might feel that you are listening to a lost work from the English pastoral school--not quite Vaughan Williams, but possibly E.J. Moeran or John Ireland. Gallagher's individuality soon reasserts itself, however, in the music's quick sections. The Berceuse is a slight but pretty little intermezzo. As you may have guessed, this music is harmonically traditional and falls gratefully on the ear, but it never comes across as merely facile or clichéd. JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony play it all with notable confidence and technical security, as we have every right to expect, and they've been well recorded at Abbey Road Studios. Gallagher is definitely worth getting to know. -- ClassicsToday, David Hurwitz, 11/18/2010

Detalles del producto Dimensiones del producto : 5.6 x 0.4 x 4.9 pulgadas; 4 Onzas Fabricante : Naxos American Classics Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2010 Producto en Tienda desde : Agosto 28, 2010 Etiqueta : Naxos American Classics ASIN : B003VC51V2 Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº182,686 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº6,036 en Sinfonías de Musica Clásica Opiniones de clientes: 4.6 de 5 estrellas 9 calificaciones Dimensiones del producto : 5.6 x 0.4 x 4.9 pulgadas; 4 Onzas Fabricante : Naxos American Classics Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2010 Producto en Tienda desde : Agosto 28, 2010 Etiqueta : Naxos American Classics ASIN : B003VC51V2 Número de discos : 1