Hadley & Sainton: Choral and Orchestral Works Choir Orchestral & Concertos 2 for 1

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COMPACT DISC ONE

PHILIP SAINTON

(1891-1967)

The Island

16:58

Symphonic Poem for Full Orchestra

Dedicated to my very good friend, Ernest Hall

Adagio con moto - Allegro

PATRICK HADLEY

(1899-1973)

The Trees so High*

34:33

Symphonic Ballad

for large orchestra with baritone solo and chorus

in A minor - in a-Moll - en la mineur

Adagio - (Molto) moderato

11:15

Andante tranquillo -

5:05

III

Vivace -

5:08

Adagio

13:05

51:43

COMPACT DISC TWO

PHILIP SAINTON

Nadir

13:40

Symphonic Elegy for Orchestra

The Dream of the Marionette

The Sadness of the Marionette -

1:39

The Sleep of the Marionette -

1:10

III

The Dream of the Marionette -

7:48

March -

3:30

Epilogue

4:20

PATRICK HADLEY

La Belle Dame sans merci†

10:00

One Morning in Spring

4:15

Sketch for Orchestra

Lenten Meditations‡

18:57

Solo: Leslie Pearson organ

Part I

'I look for the Lord' -

4:39

10.

'A babe in Bethlem's manger laid'

2:43

Part II

11.

'Behold the time draweth nigh' -

5:50

12.

'My song is love unknown'

5:44

65:49

Solo: Neill Archer tenor†‡

Solo: Stephen Richardson bass‡

Choral: Philharmonia Chorus *†‡

Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor: Matthias Bamert

3 & 4 August 1992 (The Island, The Trees So High) and 18 & 19 March 1996 (Nadir, La Bell Dame sans merci, One Morning in Spring, Lenten Meditations)

20 September 1996 (The Dream of the Marionette)

…I particularly enjoyed renewing my acquaintance with Patrick Hadley’s symphonic ballad ‘The Trees so High’. Dating from 1931, it serves up a potent brew of frequently heart-stopping beauty and slumbering anguish – a distant cousin if you will, to Vaughan Williams’s ‘A Pastoral Symphony’.

Gramophone

David Wilson-Johnson sings with gravity and sensitivity and Matthias Bamert draws a deeply felt and committed performance from the Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra. Strongly recommended.

BBC Music Magazine

‘Magical’ is a word that comes to mind for a reissue that contains impressionist English music at its most poignant… if you enjoy the British way of music-making, you will find this reissue an essential addition to your library, both for the Sainton curios and the Hadley masterpieces.

American Record Guide

…the music conveys a wistful, often disturbing intensity unusual for an English work of the period… this is headily evocative stuff, and Anglophiles everywhere will surely want to add this sumptuous-sounding CD to their collections.

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