English Orchestral Music

The newest addition to our English orchestral series features the music of William Alwyn and includes the world première recording of his Five Preludes. David Lloyd-Jones conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in a program that displays Alwyn’s keen ear for orchestral colour.

 

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra • Lloyd-Jones

William Alwyn composed some fifty works for the orchestra, including five symphonies, a sinfonietta, concertos for flute, oboe, violin, piano, harp, three concerti grossi, and many other descriptive shorter pieces. The seven works on this recording show Alwyn responding in his own individual way to the various challenges presented to him in writing for the orchestra, from the early Five Preludes, in which one can sense already his keen ear for orchestral colour, through to the self-assured scoring of his maturity in the evocative Autumn Legend.

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