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Wallace: Creation Symphony & Other Orchestral Works

Martyn Brabbins: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDH55465

Release Date:  01 September 2014

Label:  Helios / Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571154657

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

  • Description

    Prior to the making of this recording in 1997 it seems that no one had performed Wallace’s Creation Symphony for nearly a hundred years and yet, in the history of the symphony in Britain, it is unprecedented in its scope and daring. The work guides us through the first few verses of the Book of Genesis, but not in the literalistic manner of, say, Haydn’s Creation; rather Wallace conjures up intense emotions as a response to the contemplation of such poetic symbolism. (Many fascinating aspects of this symbolism are detailed by John Purser in the accompanying booklet, including strands interweaving Wallace’s own life with the business of Creation.) Wallace’s Pelleas and Melisande Suite predates the compositions by Debussy and Sibelius on the same theme by several years. It is a work of extravagantly heart-on-sleeve passion, and yet both this Suite and the equally rewarding Prelude to The Eumenides remain virtually unknown.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Prelude to The Eumenides [10'40]
      • 2. The Love of Pelléas for Mélisande [5'31] - Pelléas and Mélisande Suite
      • 3. Spinning Song [3'58] - Pelléas and Mélisande Suite
      • 4. The Death of Mélisande [6'17] - Pelléas and Mélisande Suite
      • 5. Creation Symphony in C sharp minor Adagio - Allegro In the beginning God created the heaven and the
      • 6. Creation Symphony in C sharp minor Andantino And God made two great lights [10'57]
      • 7. Creation Symphony in C sharp minor Allegro And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters
      • 8. Creation Symphony in C sharp minor Allegro maestoso So God created man in his own image [12'53]