Jennifer Galloway, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - A Vision in a Dream (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

An award-winning English composer of international standing, and one of the leading composers of his generation, whose music has been performed, recorded, and broadcast in many countries, Edward Gregson celebrates his eightieth birthday in 2025. He continues to compose and perform as actively as ever. This album presents three major concertos, interspersed with two shorter works for piano and orchestra. A Song for Bram was written in memory of his great friend and advocate, the conductor Bramwell Tovey. A Song for Sue, re-working the central Nocturne from his Concertante for Piano and Brass Band (1966), is a 2024 tribute to his wife. One of the most performed of all his works, the Tuba Concerto was written for John Fletcher, who gave the first performance in 1977. Gregson's Concerto for Viola and String Orchestra 'Three Goddesses' was given its first performance in 2023 by Rachel Roberts. The goddesses depicted in the three movements are Morrigan (Celtic warrior queen and earth mother), Aphrodite (Greek goddess of love and beauty), and Diana (Roman goddess of the hunt). First performed by these forces in 2020, the Oboe Concerto 'A Vision in a Dream' is inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan. In following the narrative, Gregson comes closest in his series of concertos to producing a descriptive symphonic poem.

TRACKLIST

1 1. Allegro deciso - Meno mosso - (Cadenza) - Tempo 1 - Meno mosso - Tempo 1
2 2. Lento e mesto - Poco più mosso - Tempo 1 (Lento) - Più mosso - Molto maestoso - Lento -
3 3. Allegro giocoso - L'istesso tempo, with an easy swing - Cadenza - Tempo 1
4 Quite slow and thoughtful - Tempo 2: Poco più mosso - A little faster - Triumphantly! - Tempo 2 - Tempo 1 - Tempo 2 -…
5 1. Morrigan: Tempo 1: Slow, thoughtful - Tempo 2: Not too fast, menacingly - Amoroso - Tempo 3 - …
6 2. Aphrodite: Tempo 1: Quite slowly and mysteriously - Appassionato - Tempo 2: Flowing - Tempo 1 - Tempo 2 - …
7 3. Diana: (Tempo 1): Fast, with energy - Come prima, ma poco più mosso: Energico - Tempo 1 - Appassionato - …
8 Slow, with expression - A tempo, appassionato - Poco slentando
9 1. Prologue: Senza misura - Slower - (Senza misura) - Slower - (Senza misura) - A Tempo - Slower (Senza misura) - …
10 2. Duologue: Faster, with a sense of foreboding - Majestically - A Tempo, ma amoroso - Senza Tempo - Slower - …
11 3. Pastorale: Quite slowly, amoroso - A little faster - (Quite slowly, amoroso) - Like a gentle Siciliana - …
12 4. Round Dance Nr. 1: Quite fast, menacingly -
13 5. Round Dance Nr. 2: Faster, with exuberance -
14 6. Round Dance Nr. 3: Più mosso: Quite fast, and precisely -
15 7. Epilogue: Senza Tempo - A Tempo - Senza Tempo



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