Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Barber: Adagio for Strings; Grainger: Irish Tune from County
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Performer: John Sant'AmbrogioComposer: Samuel Barber
Composer: Gabriel Faure
Composer: Percy Grainger
Composer: Erik Satie
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Thomas Dumm
Performer: Beverly Schiebler
Performer: John Korman
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
- Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis
- Gymnopedie
- Gymnopedie
- Adagio For Strings
- Pavane
- Irish Tune From County Derry (Danny Boy)
Free Music Notes for Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Barber: Adagio for Strings; Grainger: Irish Tune from County
Free Music Review: Where's the Movie?
Hit: 3 Stars
Last night while watching for the first time the often trite but well-made sea epic Master and Commander with Russell Crowe, I noticed several familiar musical themes popping up throughout, one of which was the hauntingly portentous Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by my favorite 20th century English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
This album from the early '80s, no doubt released to exhibit the softer dynamic wonders of Telarc's new digital sound, collects several shorter pieces in a contiguous program of early-mid 20th century Romanticism. All of them would strike one as familiar, and with the possible exception of the Vaughan Williams piece, are played here in the unthreatening manner one might easily describe as "beautiful music". There's also Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, used in Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning film Platoon; Erik Satie's fancifully titled Gymnop?dies, orchestrated piano pieces seemingly heard ubiquitously in the "new age" era and used to good effect in the French film Diva; Gabriel Faur?'s lovely Pavane; as well as the closing Danny Boy, heard in ironic context in the film Miller's Crossing. Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony milk the pieces for all the understated lushness they can muster.
The album certainly sounded attractive at the time I bought it, but at only 41 minutes, it's about half the measure of what such a program should rightfully contain on a CD these days...or you can simply press "repeat" as I do.
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