Review: Constant Lambert's Choral Masterpiece, "Summer's Last Will and Testament"

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The Ultimate Classical Music Guide by Dave Hurwitz

10 ай бұрын

Lambert: The Rio Grande, Aubade héroïque, Summer's Last Will and Testament. Soloists, Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia, David Lloyd-Jones (cond.) Hyperion

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@Bobbnoxious 10 ай бұрын

I met Andre Previn several times in the late 1980s, through my job at Tower Records. He had just re-recorded Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast", so I asked him if he planned to do the same for Lambert's cantata "Rio Grande", which he'd previously done in 1974. Previn quietly said, "No. Once in a lifetime is enough for that piece".

@jimbobobie 10 ай бұрын

My favorite element of The Rio Grande is the extraordinary way it ebbs away to the end. It's absolutely magical and not a little surprising.

@colincomposer 10 ай бұрын

C.L's father was the Australian painter George, while he was the father of Kit who, amongst other things was the Who's manager. He also wrote a piano sonata which is never played, but which is an extremely impressive and powerful work.

@bernardhowell6325 10 ай бұрын

I am a great admirer of Constant Lambert. I love the Rio Grande and a short piano piece called Elegiac Blues, but my favourite work of Lambert's and, indeed, one of my favourite works of all time, is his ballet suite Horoscope. I love this music very much. It is certainly of its time, but I recommend it to all who are receptive to jazz-inspired classical music of the 1930s.

@JustAlgae 10 ай бұрын

I like this cover,it made me want to listen to this album,but there is no MP3 of this album in Chinese music apps😢so I listened his other works(The Rio Grande & Horoscope,play by The Philharmonia Orchestra),it really surprised me!!（By the way, I just started listening to classical music,your channel helps me a lot❤

@gwilymthomas3350 10 ай бұрын

Despite Lambert's opinion of Vaughan Williams and his followers he arranged the score of Job for theatre pit band for its first stage production

@cyberprimate 10 ай бұрын

Funny I searched 'Lambert' just yesterday and was surprised to find nothing on your channel.

@jameslee2943 10 ай бұрын

2:07 one of the other volumes has the Romeo and Juliet ballet as well as the piano concerto and some shorter works. Well worth a listen!

@bendingcaesar65 10 ай бұрын

I emailed Hyperion about buying some of their CDs, and they told me they are only available as CD-Rs. It doesn't say that, of course, on their site, so anyone buying them won't know what they're buying. To confuse matter further, some of their available CDs are real pressed CDs and some are CD-Rs, so you never know which is which unless you ask; a horrible business practice. Personally, I refuse to buy CD-Rs. It's an inferior product with a much lesser lifespan. I really do hope they start reissuing their stuff on REAL CDs.

@mike-williams 10 ай бұрын

It's unlikely. The business model is not sustainable. Just look at Disney who even with phenomenal advantages of scale are basically no longer creating any physical media for the Southern Hemisphere any more. (Australia just got its last Disney movie disc this week.)

@bendingcaesar65 10 ай бұрын

@@mike-williams I don't care what they sell. I just want them to disclose that what they are selling are CD-Rs. But very few companies disclose that up front, and we all know why. Because they know many people won't buy CD-Rs, so they choose to keep consumers in the dark. A horrible business practice. Also, Disney is full of shit. They should spend more recourses on paying their artists and less on sucking up to the public, pretending to be "woke."