Divine
Art 27808 - The Collected 78rpm Recordings - E. J. Moeran
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Hallé
Orchestra, cond. Leslie Heward
Jean Pouget, Frederick Riddle, Anthony Pini
Heddle Nash, Gerald Moore
John Goss, Cathedral Male Voice Quartet Recorded 1925-1942
Remastered by Andrew Rose & released in 2006 as Divine Art CD
27808
Duration
73'58"
String
Trio in G major
(rec. 1941)
Three
Folk Song Arrangements:
O
Sweet fa's the Eve
(rec. 1925)
Can't
you dance the Polka
(rec. 1925)
Sheep
Shearing
(rec. 1926)
Diaphenia
(rec. 1945)
The
Sweet o' the Year
(rec. 1945)
Symphony
in C minor
(rec. 1942)
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This
CD is one I've long wanted to assemble - restorations of all the commercial
recordings of Moeran's music made during the composer's lifetime. I put
something similar together for limited release a few years ago through
the Worldwide Moeran Database website; since then we've discovered three
further recordings from the mid-1920's, and my remastering skills have
advanced considerably!
Moeran e-book
Now available as a downloadable PDF e-book, Geoffrey Self's 1986 book, 'The Music of E. J Moeran', is the definitive work on this wonderful composer. more...
Three
songs from the baritone John Goss, a close associate of Moeran's in the
1920s, make up the previously undiscovered material. The first two presented
here were recorded in the final days of acoustic recordings, the third
benefits from the new 'electrical' microphone technology.
Elsewhere,
Moeran's magnificent Symphony in G minor receives what many believe to
be its finest outing. Recorded with the composer present and given his
full blessing - indeed he regarded Heward as the finest interpreter of
his work.
The
String Trio is a pivotal work in Moeran's musical development, and perhaps
at times one of his darkest compositions. Walter Legge brought together
three of the finest instrumentalists of the day for this excellent Columbia
recording which captures all the nuances, the depths, and in the finale,
the triumphal glee and joy of the music.
Finally,
what more can be said about the combination of tenor Heddle Nash and his
accompanist Gerald Moore? The finest English tenor voice of his era, superb
in his interpretation of British music (his Gerontius is still regarded
as the greatest - the part was literally written for him), with Moore,
the accompanist's accompanist, it's a combination you can't beat in any
age. Despite the relatively poor quality wartime shellac, these two songs
from the peak of Moeran's output are truly gems.
REVIEW OF MOERAN - THE COLLECTED 78RPM RECORDINGS Divine Art Historic Sound 27808
A BLISTERING FIRST RECORDING OF MOERAN'S SYMPHONY IS A CLASSIC OF THE GRAMOPHONE
“There was no one to touch him, in my opinion; he’d have gone a very long way, if he had lived.” Thus Sir Adrian Boult on his fellow countryman Leslie Heward (1897-1943), whose prodigious talents are nowhere more evident that on his very last, and surely greatest, project, namely this magnificent 1942 recording with the Hallé of Moeran’s epic G minor Symphony. This is a gorgeous score, strongly indebted to Sibelius, Elgar and Bax, full of the most ravishing nature music and quite breathtakingly evocative of the wild seaboard of south-west Ireland which the composer so adored. Its sizeable dimensions undoubtedly require a firm hand on the tiller; in this respect, it’s perhaps the veteran Boult (on his cherishable 1973 Lyrita account with the New Philharmonia) who holds Moeran’s edifice together with the surest symphonic grip, but even so he has to bow to Heward in terms of sheer dedication, elemental fire and pantheistic atmosphere.
Moeran, who attended the sessions in Manchester’s Houldsworth Hall, was understandably ecstatic about the finished article: “The Symphony has had such a performance as it never had before.” Alas, five months after the completion of this pioneering recording, Heward ( A lifelong chronic asthmatic) was struck down by tuberculosis. Restorer and annotator Andrew Rose has achieved impressively full-bodied and refined results from the original HMV shellacs (surface noise is remarkably low), while the couplings, a truly wonderful account of the String Trio (Set down in May 1941 by a “dream team” comprising Jean Pougnet, Frederick Riddle and Anthony Pini) and five songs characterfully delivered by John Goss and Heddle Nash, are just as successful.
Reviewer:
Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone, January 2007
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